Now living in Amsterdam, the Netherlands in an apartment equipped with a large flat panel TV, sometimes programs are watched.
Inevitably this means seeing commercials as well.
During those moments the ceiling and the decorations on the wall of the living room are studied and the sound of the TV is switched off just not to hear and see these annoying clips for spending money.
Nevertheless sometimes commercials were seen in spite of the preventing actions and one of those commercials were about the National Lottery.
As if it was a pressing matter and of the most ultimate urgency it was informed that in two days it would be known who was the winner of the € 7.000.000 ( $ 8.800.000 ) jackpot and the many other prizes.
And then a curious thing happened when having finished drinking a café latte in the coffee shop around the corner last morning.
The course was not to go back to the temporary home.
Somehow and miraculously the steps went to the cigar shop on the other side of the street.
Where they have tickets for the National Lottery.
And the lady was asked to sell one of them.
She said: you have any preference for a number?
Because these tickets come out of an electronic machine.
A preference for a number of a ticket for the National Lottery?
Hell, yes!
The winning number of course.
This she could not guarantee.
So now it is “ ED 027809 “.
And what this wins we will know later today.
This behavior of seeing a commercial on TV and then without any spine or character visit a cigar shop to buy a € 15 ( $ 19 ) lottery ticket, is highly condemnable.
And not fitting at all in regular way of thinking and the policy for life permanently applied.
You could say it was a moment of having left the own body and mind and having become one of the characters in George Orwell’s book 1984.
Dumb, low consciousness, materialistic, no awareness, no spirituality, easy to influence and manipulate.
Is the time lived in Europe this Summer too long?
But there is another side to the story and the auto flagellation.
What if today this lottery ticket is awarded with a prize of let’s say € 5.000.000 ?
That is $ 6.343.000 bucks, mister.
Will anybody claim it was foolish to visit the cigar shop?
What happens next will always remain a mystery.
If the lottery ticket doesn’t bring in a penny, shame and guilt will prevent to report this publicly.
If the contrary happens, the lottery ticket wins a couple of millions, better not to make this public because of the all flies that will come to the honey.
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Thursday, September 9, 2010
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Catching a girl
It happened last week in Brussels, the capital of Belgium.
A man went to shop in the department store H & M.
54 year old Matteo Janiri.
Meanwhile, 3 floors up, the 4-year old girl Philine managed to escape the attention of her parents.
She climbed onto the railing of the escalator.
Lost her balance and fell into the gap between the floors.
She yelled and screamed while falling and this made Matteo Janiri look up.
He realized a child was falling down.
And he realized she was falling right down to where he was standing.
Instinctively, he spread his arms and caught the girl.
And saved her life.
This story was reported in the Belgium newspaper "Het Laatste Nieuws".
Whose journalist interviewed the deeply shocked Matteo Janiri shortly after the amazing event.
This Matteo was most impressed by the fact that he happened to be in the right place at the right time to save the girl's life.
And this, according to him, had come from his decision not to go to the department store by car but by tram.
This public transportation system made him arrive later in the department store compared to if he had come by car, so he believed.
By coming to the department store later, in his opinion he arrived in time to catch the girl.
Matteo should get a medal and a kiss from the girl.
But his theory of the tram making him be in the right place at the right time makes no sense.
There must have been thousands of reasons why it was him that happened to be there to catch the girl.
So, there are no reasons.
There are no explanations.
It simply happened.
But, H & M, how about installing escalators where no children can climb on anymore?
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A man went to shop in the department store H & M.
54 year old Matteo Janiri.
Meanwhile, 3 floors up, the 4-year old girl Philine managed to escape the attention of her parents.
She climbed onto the railing of the escalator.
Lost her balance and fell into the gap between the floors.
She yelled and screamed while falling and this made Matteo Janiri look up.
He realized a child was falling down.
And he realized she was falling right down to where he was standing.
Instinctively, he spread his arms and caught the girl.
And saved her life.
This story was reported in the Belgium newspaper "Het Laatste Nieuws".
Whose journalist interviewed the deeply shocked Matteo Janiri shortly after the amazing event.
This Matteo was most impressed by the fact that he happened to be in the right place at the right time to save the girl's life.
And this, according to him, had come from his decision not to go to the department store by car but by tram.
This public transportation system made him arrive later in the department store compared to if he had come by car, so he believed.
By coming to the department store later, in his opinion he arrived in time to catch the girl.
Matteo should get a medal and a kiss from the girl.
But his theory of the tram making him be in the right place at the right time makes no sense.
There must have been thousands of reasons why it was him that happened to be there to catch the girl.
So, there are no reasons.
There are no explanations.
It simply happened.
But, H & M, how about installing escalators where no children can climb on anymore?
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