Year: 2025
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escaping and dancing
Carmela appeared through the arrival doors of the airport of Santiago de Compostela. she was talking on her phone, a folding version of a Motorola that i remember to be pretty fancy back at that time. she had 3 piercings in her right ear and maxi square vintage sunglasses of the 70’s. she looked like…
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high on hope
‘do you know where i can get a glass of champagne?’, a random girl asked me a tuesday at 7 am. ‘no idea’, i answered with a smile. we are all going through a lot, i thought. ‘you can’t imagine how much i need a glass of champagne’. ‘i can imagine, it’s just 7 am,…
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entangled with life
it was history repeating. charles de gaulle airport. february 25th. almost midnight. 4 suitcases. 80 kg weight. the driver the company hired was waiting for me. he was mad. apparently i was having too much baggage. he would be petrified if he got to see the emotional one. stoicism says that any person or situation…
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life is a lot
somebody once told me that we should work to live. and not live to work. sounds great, i thought, meanwhile i was looking for 2 identical socks getting ready to work. but in which part of the world? it’s pretty condescending. like when somebody tells you ‘money is not everything’. of course it’s not. until…
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handle with care
‘hi, i am Matt and we are here to pack your life’, he said. well, it was not exactly like that. but it sounded like that. it was 7am. three hours later my kitchen and my leaving room were gone. surrounded of boxes and bags of trash, i questioned my life with the help of…
