Category: Blog

Today I’ve had the pleasure to talk to a colleague that I highly respect.
He told me about the old company he worked for, many people left, but some stayed there, keeping the company up and working.

It’s a hard business, and things go down faster than you can predict (when they do). he told me.
Yet he also said to me that if the people stayed in the company for a good reason, then it’s not a bad choice, as long as you know why you are staying.

The issue lies with people not being aware of their choices. We often choose by chance or destiny, leaving the choice to other people.
But if we are informed and aware, no choice is bad.
Yes, other people might not agree, and that’s alright.
We have a vision and in that vision that choice fits.

Want to change work? If you are aware of what’s happening all’s good.
Change life? same as before.

Every decision can be good as long as you know what are you going after and as long as you don’t lie to yourself.

We should be better for christmas, right? More good, nice, treat others with kindness and so on.

It’s hypocrite to think we can go on like this, and it’s not christmas fault. It’s ours.

Christmas is a nice moment when we all reunite, but we must do more, more to help, more to treat, more to be gentle.
It’s useless if we stick to being good for one day, we should do it again and again, fight every single damned day against that inner will that wants us to react badly, to act without thinking, to reply with bad manners.

We can do it, some people already do this and no wonder they’re doing good. It might take time and it might also take some humility because it requires you to lower down the ego, to think more of others than yourself without sacrificing self-respect.

Some things happens.
Like the red light, like the man that crosses your street.

The strange thing about this is those coincidence feel like curses from time to time.

When you get all red semaphores, you feel like the world is conspiring against you.
We don’t believe in destiny yet we have this feeling that something is against us.

There are days when those red semaphore aren’t an issue, what changed?
Our mind, our emotions, they are different.

Those difference account to how we perceive an happening.

Some prefer to avoid palm oil.

It destroys the world, they say, and they’re right. Palm oil is often abused, the way it’s produced needs to be more in control, we all need to be more aware.

That said, palm oil is a fraction of the problem.

What about petrol? You’re still driving your car, aren’t you?
How do you plan to get rid of that?

Leaving palm oil seems quite easy. It’s all about choosing different products, but did you think about what will change once the production will shift to different products?
other oils are less efficient than palm oil, it means that once the same amount of production will be required because people are buying it, we’ll use up to 7 times the space we’d need with palm oil.

And we’re yet to touch the issue.
The issue is that leaving palm oil, as I said, it is easy. You don’t sacrifice a thing.
You switch and that’s all.

But what about petrol, or other things in your life that damage the world.
What about the chinese shirt or gadget that you buy?
People died for that. How do you think it’s possible to get for 1€ something that would be priced at least 5 times more?
They’re are not making us a favour because they’re generous. They are abusing of people and you’re contributing to this.

And your car? Oh, reducing palm oil is fine, but driving is ok too right? Or eating meat, or whatever.

We can change products, but if you look closely the problem will still remain and you know what?
We are the problem. That’s why it won’t go away.

The change must not be in what we buy but in how we buy and in how much we consume, how much food we trash before using it, how much useless things we buy.

All those things require a big shift in the way you think and that is why it’s so difficult.
You can’t just switch to another product.

Some times things go right. Life goes on.

Today maybe a new day for me and my gf as it marks a new step towards a new home.

We were worried about the many things that didn’t go as expected, but some did work well, and now we’re delighted.

There are still many issues left, but going one step at a time is reassuring.