Alice is wondering...

Kurt Vonnegut Life itself is! The funny thing is, we have no idea how much time are we given on this planet. I can only hope to grow as old as my grandma, who passed away at the age of 99 (and that woman smoked cigarettes all her life!). She survived the II World War which as we learned from history books is quite an achievement and it seemed that it only made her stronger. Wonderful person. Huge sense of humor, very warm but also rational and distanced from all the small life- drama. So, as I was saying, I do hope to live that long because I've been here in this world for 25 years already and I am beginning to feel that I should use any second of my present life to develop, evolve and explore. I've been procrastinating for way too long and while it is ok to give yourself a break, I sense that up until now I've been putting too much focus in the wrong places. I wouldn't say that I have wasted any of my time, that would be a very unfair statement. Whatever I did I ...

Recently I have finished a book that I was busy with since October. It is a book by Milan Kundera 'The Unbereable Lightness of Being'. Coincidence had it that I found it lying on the street close to where I live while walking back from the nightshop with a new pack of cigarettes. I saw a whole bunch of books in a cartoon box on the street and as no one was around I felt comfortable going through that box. I came across a lot of books in Dutch about philosophy, marketing and even religion and among all of them, there it was, this gem hidden on the bottom. The only book from the whole 'collection' written in English and, oh my, what a book! I knew it only by name, I knew there was a movie based on it, too. But I never had quite any idea what is it about nor I ever searched for it on librarie's shelf in order to get to know it. At the time I was just about to hit kind of a rock- bottom in my life. I found the book on Tuesday evening and on Wednsesday I got senseles...

 Each time I make a come back on this blog I follow it up by stating that from now on I will be writing on a regular basis again, that I have more ideas and topics than ever and nothing will stop me now. But then life happens, events occur at an incredibly fast pace and I fail to keep my promises. Recently I cannot promise anything to myself so how could I make any promises towards anyone else? We have waved 'goodbye' to the year 2015 and I have to say that for once the year (although not the easiest one, actually the most difficult I have ever experienced) has ended in peace and with promises of greater things to come. The past 3 New Years Eves were not really nights to remember. There has always been drama involved, arguments, misunderstandings leading to tears and as you can imagine it is not the best way to greet the New Year ahead of us. But here is a funny thing. These past 3 years I translated in my head as 'the times of my life'. I have been living on th...