Experiences are inevitable. Encounters change you, and this change is irreversible. If I want the encounter, then I have to want it completely, fully engage with it and completely lose myself in it. If I cut back on this wholeness, the encounter doesn’t happen either. It’s like jumping with open eyes into a black mountain …
Expectations are deceptive, because they do not have much to do with reality. Mostly we fail because of the non-transferability of wishes. In retrospect, we call these expectations. Wishes can be dismissed as something nebulous. From expectations, we claim that they are predictable and therefore must be understood or seen by the other. It becomes …
Inspired by Kieran Halpin “Salt into the wound” It would not go without a fight, that night, opposing the approaching day, when light mixes with darkness, and the light slowly erases it. Controversial, like every morning, only to be subdued. A partial victory. Before my eyes, behind the domed window of the round church. …
Inspired by “Long lost friends” by Kieran Halpin The ice glistened in the sunlight. Ice crystals such as diamonds. Glass clear so you could see the water. Maybe I could dare. It was a long time since the water was frozen. The skates lay next to me, easy to handle, when you sat down to …