life's patterns

Don't you have sometimes the impression that all our life we are faced with a sum of situations in which we react very predictable? I don't just mean that the way we react is not logical, but sometimes all these choices that we make are made in order not to affect our future in a negative way. And all the mistakes we make are made on the same reason. And somehow, in this way we limit later on our possibility to discover and experience various things.

For example, at a certain moment we have chosen to take a safe path that guaranteed us a calm but rather dull life afterwards. And this includes the choices we make when we decide what school to get in, what job to have, what car to drive, etc. If you can rise your head above the crowd you can see that life is not by far that exciting. And if you can not maybe it means that somehow along the way you've got lost in what you wanted, in what you really felt about life.

The safe path, as I have said, leads often to a dull existence. You can see this all around - people doing all kind of things and forgetting why they are doing them. Why are you doing you job, raising you kids, paying for your car, apartment? What is the real purpose? Just to say "Well I am the best in my field" or "I am so proud of my kids" or "I have 3 cars and 4 houses", etc ? OK, let's presume you are there, you have done all that, what's next? Of course you can get an extra car, house and even have another kid but this is not a contest. Or maybe this is the purpose of this life? Always to get better, to get higher, to be the first?

Yes, you can say that this is how we have got so far, but can you say that the men that built the roads we are walking on, the men that made the food we are eating, the men that raised the San Francisco bridge or the men that landed on the moon were really happy, were they satisfied about their life? Of course you can say that some of them have done something exceptional, but seeing it all as a whole, were are mere pieces in a huge Lego game, and everything we do now can be considered exceptional if we look back far enough. But if we understand how we have got here is finally just a matter of consequence, seeing all the steps done by all the people behind us, we have just did the next step forward, as it was foreseen.

We have a natural predisposition for progress, for evolution. This is how we arrived here today. But from here we can choose to do more and not just do the next step forward. Do more with our life, add meaning, add sense, add feeling. How can we do that? Surely, no one knows the answer even though we might be searching it. But we can get a step closer if we could, not just for one minute but for one life, get over barriers, open our souls and minds, feel the person near us and enjoy every minute of our life.

This could be the start, the rest I am leaving you to show me what to do. We have one life, let's make the best of it.

one after another

Not being sufficient that my car was broken, today my bike managed to collect a pin from the road and - hazaaa - now I have a flat tire! Ok, something is happening, someone I think is playing bad tricks or making badluck charms over me. Well, if you can hear me I am comeing after you to kick your ass :))

Really, all this year everything went in the wrong direction. And I could see that from the very start. I knew what was comeing. The problem is that everything I do to change this situation seems to make it even worse. Maybe, I do not know, I should not try so hard. Still there are just two months to go from this year, so hopefuly nothing worse will happend. But let's not forget that "if something can probably go wrong, it will" :)

I hope that I will wipe the slate clean at the begining of the next year, and even if I do not believe in superstitions, from what I have seen so far, the first few days of the new year usually mirror the whole year happenings. Anyway, the things will gonna have to change.

Now I am wondering what will go wrong tomorrow ??? :))

managing a car accident ... in france

As previewed, today I have walked down to my assurance company to discuss the outcome of the situation generated by the car accident I had Saturday. I do not know how it works somewhere else, but in France if you have a no victims car accident the police does not get involved. It's up to the drivers to complete a report. This report is then filed to the insurance company and further on it is the job of the insurance company to argue with the other drivers' insurance companies about the fact of who's guilty and who is going to pay for the damages. Rather strange.

I guess all the insurance companies have the interest of not paying for the damages, but how it is going this thing to be solved? They all gather in a room and fight it over? :) I think not, because from what I have understood the process is a black box for the end-user, with no precise result and even more important, with no precise deadline for the answer. So it can take from weeks to months. It is not very convenient when it is you ass on the line, it was not your fault and all you have is a basic insurance. Now all you can do is wait and hope that the others will pay your repairs. Nice, huh? :)

Well, in my case, after the expertise I will have tomorrow in order to evaluate the damages, I will begin the repairs and hope very hard that I will be reimboursed. Still I think it could have helped if the police would have filled in a report, and not leave the decision only based on 2 pages of 100 words report written by the drivers and a lousy drawn scheme of the accident. Fortunately, we took some pictures of the accident scene so I hope that will help clearing the doubts.

first message

Well hello, this is my very first blog post. Until now all this blogging trend was for me just a waste of time. But now, not having anything better to do I've decided "why not?", I am not doing anyhow anything else interesting. Maybe this stuff will help me "calm down", as one of my frends says, because for example today, I have managed to wreck my car in a stupid lo speed accident on the streets of Paris. Nice, huh? :)

Don't know so far if this will teach me something, but what's in it to loose? Well, you will be hearing here all the unimportant stuff that fills my life, empty as it is. I will try not to be very boring beacuse I am the one of the most easily to bored persons I know, so I will try not to do this to you too. And if you hang around for a while you will probably find out a lot of things about me, more or less interesting, more or less nice, more or less philosophical.

And also, to get your attention, sometimes later I will publish some photos with my wrecked car :))) Let's hope till then all will be all right and the assurance will take care of all the repairs.

So this is it, let's see if anyone out there cares to read these messages. We are go. Have fun.