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Geeks VS Charlatans
I’m sure what I’m about to describe happens in almost every profession; in fact, it’s inherent to our obsession with climbing the productive ladder, sometimes without considering the method used to achieve this. The tendency to self-justify our progress, while also nullifying that of other competitors, dates back a long time, perhaps from childhood. I…
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And the winner is…
As far as I’m concerned, life is made up of long periods of tedious waiting linked by very brief moments of transition. Just fleeting flashes of reality give way to the next stretch of long wait and so on until the last breath. The simplicity of the facts in those minimalist chapters is deceptive because…
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The Shawshank Redemption
The long walk through the desert makes me glimpse a point that makes up a different horizon from all these past days. It is not a mirage. It is something real, although still distant. Something that will change my life in ways I still can’t imagine. I am not talking about hope for a better…
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Thoughts
Before creating a section itself I want to experiment a little. Sometimes ideas come to me that don’t last long enough in my mind to put them aside. On other occasions I feel motivated enough to start the initiative without knowing if I will have enough patience to maintain a certain periodicity. Now I would…
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Honesty and efficiency
One of the most painful lessons that life in the working world teaches you is the complete lack of proportionality between the effort made and the reward for it. Any creative profession requires a certain sacrifice that translates into quality; The more sacrifice, the more quality. This proportionality is what differentiates masterpieces from botched attempts.…
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Resolutions for a new year.
What can you ask for in the new year when you can’t think of anything? Humanity has lost the ability to be excited about the future. Dreaming of a better world has become so difficult that it is tempting to cling to the little that can spark any interest in us. You only have to…
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Ardet nec consumitur
This is the motto of the old Grimbergen Abbey, founded in the year 1128, dissolved in the year 1796 and reinstated after the French Revolution. The current building dates back to 1660 and has survived as a minor basilica since 1999. In its entire history it suffered three fires that left it reduced to rubble…
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About to resume interrupted tasks
Life takes you down paths that you don’t always want to travel. Beyond the inevitable there is always the hope of some kind of reward. In my case I do not expect big events; simply pick up what I left halfway because of everything that was always more important or a priority. The road is…
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Waves and Patterns
Whether we like it or not, we live in a closed world, subjected to processes that are beyond our control and of which we barely get to know a small part thanks to experience. At first sight it seems difficult to obtain that experience in a mechanical (or procedural) way. Something like that must have…
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Living an adventure.
Who are you and why are you like this? What drives you to do what you do? Isn’t it easier to stay still? What need do you have to get into crazy adventures? These questions are logical for a person settled in an insubstantial existence. Eat, drink, play, read, walk… The activities that fill our…
