Necessary Rhyme

I don’t know if it’s because of the holidays coming, but I’m starting to talk in rhymes.

For example, the other day, I was talking with my cousin, and I heard myself saying – Let’s live and give!

Which is actually not a bad thing, at all, regardless of holidays being close or not.

That’s How Tennis Goes!

(the title is a known Romanian line from a famous sketch of the actor Toma Caragiu)

Recently, I was searching for something on some old cassettes (yes, I still have a cassette player & recorder thanks to a dear friend of mine who gave it to me), and I listened to an old sketch of the actors Vasile Murariu și Nae Lazarescu. 

It’s been more than twenty five years since that sketch, but a line from it is still valid today:

‘When you steal, make sure you steal a lot so that you have enough to bribe your way out!’

We are not normal, which we also wish for yourselves - Simona Fusaru

Mrs. Fusaru is constantly arranging so that I get many and beautiful surprises that flatter and enchant me, and recently she outdid herself. And this time she outdid herself and signed an autograph to me. How lucky I am!

It’s been a while ever since I’ve read something similar, and I truly enjoyed it. Words run at their whim, unhindered by some prejudice we may have with regards to their meaning. They are free and only other words, those that were not printed, could be the judge of them. An absurdist fiction or not, since the absurd freely abounds in mainly all aspects of our lives, has at its centre as characters Romulus and Remus, the writer’s imaginary friends, rascals that unhurriedly play with prejudice, ideas, concepts and adjectives.

See below an excerpt from the book:

„...

Romulus and Remus just got a round cat because they do no like right angles, they are too abrupt, too logical; moreover, a square cat would have been too artistic.

... “

I’m grateful

It’s been a while since I haven’t played the I am grateful game. 

Recently, a colleague of mine asked the team what they are grateful for with regards to this year. It was hard, especially since it’s way easier to find reasons for not being grateful. And struggling so much with this task, we realized, at the end, that each of us had at least four or five reasons. How lucky are we!

Telling this to a friend, I realized there’s another one I missed. And it’s truly sensational since this never happened before. This year I got the chance to say good things about a person that I put in the bad people box for some years now. How lucky am I! And how grateful to be able to say I was wrong and here’s a human being!

Diversity

How beautiful is the entire world!

Amazing Is No Longer in Fashion

Once in a while, I cast an eye over what people write and it puzzles me to see that some are inveterate users of the word amazing, as if it has just being pulled out of the hat. That particular hat we usually pull out pompous sayings to make the sale.

It’s laughable since, by now, whenever one reads amazing, one knows that it is definitely not, because one has already experienced what amazing is and will say pass to that from now on. If you wish, amazing is the younger sister of the word wow, which no longer stands for anything valuable.

And let’s not forget about interesting, even though I must admit that I’ve noticed people stopped using it. Now, they prefer using challenging.

The Courage

I was under the impression that courage comes genetically. Your parents were brave and so will you. As if the genes of having dark hair or blue eyes go from one generation to another together with personality traits. Well, from my experience, I tell you that blue eyes are rather picky and don’t just pass on to people that simple. I guess this is the reason why I could not steal them from my father.

Today, I understood that courage behaves the same way, like the blue eyes, it does not pass on just 'cause you want it to. One has to search for it. And, sometimes, if you’re lucky enough and your folks insist upon searching for it themselves, their courage inspires you to go and search for your own.

I’m on my way, and I’ve got a lot to do! Which I dearly hope is the case for you, too.

Victoria Secretarian

I forgot about Abibas, Nuke and other counterfeit goods meant to deceive or simply make the wearing of the counterfeit products more enjoyable, especially for those that cannot afford expensive items.

Recently, I found out (and laughed) about Victoria Secretarian. A perfume greater than the one counterfeited from the famous brand Victoria’s Secret. If you want Victoria, you can get Victoria, it’s simple!

Window Shopping

 

Darkness

On autumn evenings, when it gets dark earlier and I find myself walking in dim street lights or with no lights at all, I go back in time, to a street in Tulcea, walking next to my mother. Gospodinov wonderfully wrote in his novel Time Shelter that it is such a pity that certain experiences or smells do not have names and we evoke them only by words we use to describe them, and always making comparisons. And living similar smells or experiences, you go back in time to those memories and find yourself in the midst of them.

This is what autumn evenings can trigger in me. And when a memory calls, I realize I am not afraid of dark or other monsters. Or maybe just the despair one. But I have learned ways to face it, and I look over my collection of encouragements and praises that I’ve gathered from strangers and people I know and love for some years now, to help me move on and keep my eye on my goals. It helps a lot and I surely recommend you do the same! 

It’s similar to what I recently learned from a course by Ronald Heifetz, one can endure through failure or despair if one stays in touch with the good that one’s doing.