Soit...

I do not need support nor disapproval of others of my decision to break with my spouse. If, for your world view, you need to give me the role of wrongdoer in this divorce feel free to do so.

My idea? I have no obligation to you to stay unhappy for the rest of my life just for all your sake.

I can still look at myself in the mirror and that's my only reference.

What do you blame me? That it took me so long to decide?

Four months later

Four months after I wrote Oh irony (omen? amen? out?) the shards are still in our bedroom.

literally and metaphorically

Divorce: victim and wrongdoer (01)

Live can be so easy.

Et alors?

...

Melancolia

Als men ten laatste heeft gevonden
Waar heel de ziel naar smacht,
Dan is 't te laat, de dag verzwonden,
Reeds valt de nacht.

Als 't kleed ons past, is het versleten,
Als men het boek kent, is het uit,
Als men het leven komt te weten,
Dan valt het scherm dat alles sluit.


C. Vosmaer (1826-1888)

Double dark

Aimer Reveras (sic)

Still a raging awareness.

Hotel shop owner

The printed flyer that he had distributed in the hotel spoke about "jewllery made to your reguiremnts", "re-sizine", "unwandet gold" and "Free pick-un service from hotels-see for representetiye".

I got into a conversation with him and he told me how difficult business was for him as the tour guides in the hotel warned their tourists that he overcharged. It just was not fair! He asked me for advice on how to improve his sales. I suggested that he would give discount on his prices and that he would paint a big discount message on his window.

He then told me, with an aggrieved expression on his face, that the tour guides would then most probably tell the tourists that he was only giving fake discounts because he had first rose the price. I rhetorically asked him: "But this is what you are going to do, no?" For a second he looked caught, tried to keep up his aggrieved expression and then started smirking.

Follow the leader

Sitting at the hotel's poolside and reading "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand while the crowd, encouraged by the animation team, is dancing and singing around the pool at this music:

Follow the leader, leader, leader... Follow the leader.
Follow the leader, leader, leader... Follow the leader.
Left...right...left...right
Follow the leader, leader, leader... Follow the leader.