Month: June 2023

I’m going to see Olivier soon. I phoned him recently. And since we spoke about school, I wasn’t really willing to speak. It was much better when I let him speak about jazz, the old jazz he’s a fan of. It was interesting to hear his enthusiasm. He’s a passionate, friendly, slightly bear-like philosophical person.

Incidentally, I think it’s difficult to find real friends and keep up relationships. Most often I find friends and I have impression we don’t really see eye to eye. We don’t have that many things in common. But we can communicate and this will do.

But finding real people who you feel inspired by because their interests fascinate you? Yes, I found some people like that, but is it that I don’t dare getting in touch, having the full power of their personality in front of me? Is it the fear of not comparing well?

In any case, I think that’s what I should do more often. I should try to get in touch and keep in touch with the people inspiring me, or who I admire for their interests or ways of being.

Yesterday I succumbed to the temptation of binge watching: I got hooked and gulped down at least three episodes of the the Downton Abbey series.

I know that series is a bit old fashioned, but I don’t know why it attracts me that much, really. Perhaps it is the good English which is spoken, the manners it stages.

I simply find it beautiful and satisfying, particularly when I need some rest, or rather a feeling that the world is at peace, or that it has some law and order, something of the kind.

Do you know the series and what do you think about it? If you told me, I would be very pleased to hear your views. It would certainly be an interesting talk to me. At least I’d be very intered to hear you argue about it.

Keeping our humanity, remaining human means not only concentrating on doing our job efficiently, but holding some distance to our goals. Keeping some peace of mind, a « philosophical attitude », as we say in French, towards ourselves and the world. Yes, being in touch, understanding and showing love is possibly more important than being efficient, isn’t it?

And shouldn’t we ask ourselves how we can live together? How we want to live together? What we want to share?

Who do you want to support? In order to be able to support other people you need time. You need awareness. And to have awareness, you need to be in touch with people.

I think that people in Western society, tend to forget this. At least I tend to forget to regenerate by watching birds and light, the day going by. By doing it I could acquire some distance at the same time. This is what that watchful, peaceful, rested attitude could give me.