Random Thoughts

Have you met Frank? He was an extremely rich guy. He had properties everywhere. Then, things went wrong and he lost everything he once owned. But he didn't just lose them, he lost them to Nadia. Kind and compassionate Nadia... He'd really thought that she was different. He couldn't be more wrong. She just took everything and moved on with her life, leaving a wreckage behind. Frank didn't know which was worse, losing everything or Nadia's treachery. He looked ahead and saw nothing but misery. So he did the only thing left for him to do; he told Nadia to stop looking so pleased with herself and swore never to play Monopoly with her again! Life would be a lot easier if we could just say: 'I'm not playing anymore' when things went terribly wrong, don't you think? Some things only matter while you're still playing. The only way out is to stop playing. A game inside a game and inside...

The entrance to the cave in which the lamp was hidden was too small for the evil magician. So he tricked Alaaddin, who was small enough, to fetch it for him. When they were at the entrance of the cave, just before Alaaddin went in, the magician told him: "You'll see gems of enchanting beauty. Don't let them make you forget why you're there! There's an old lamp at the end of the cave. Get it and come back directly!" I think one of the most important questions that we can (and should) ask ourselves is: 'What is that lamp?' The gems are there to distract us from reaching the lamp. They are so overwhelmingly attractive. And Alaaddin has no idea how incomparably valuable the lamp is. He has a very difficult challenge ahead. What is that lamp? And which gems take your breath away and distract you from finding it?

'Where are you going?' ... Around midnight, I'd turned off the lights as I often do and was drinking a cup of Earl Grey. Now, about Earl Grey... I've quite recently developed a liking towards it. I used to not like it and the reason is it doesn't quite taste like black tea, you know, more like herbal tea... And for me, there's black tea and everything else. Green, red, white... However, it's a soft tea and it makes a perfect choice around midnight when I'm too hungry to drink stronger teas. Anyway, I was drinking my tea and listening to music on my phone. The screen of my phone, despite being at the lowest brightness, was still too bright in the dark. So I turned the phone over. And something quite predictable happened. I started seeing other things, things that were already around me, but out of my vision because of that bright light of the screen. There are things in front of our eyes, yet we can not see them. And sometimes, we look for those ...