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In the land of the ostriches, the blind are king. When politicians bury their head in the sand, ignorance rules the country. ( High noon. )

~ Erik Pevernagie

Erik Pevernagie Blind Ignorance King Ostrich Politicians Sand

Some may remain imprisoned in a gridlock of lies or keep on blurring the lines between facts and fables, expecting us to buy the debilitating and fake narrative of their life, until they eventually end up on the chopping block of the inexorable truth. Be that as it may, one can “fool people some of the time, but not all of the time”. (“Bribe payers' index »)

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Erik Pevernagie Blur The Lines Bribe Payers Chopping Block Debilitating Eventually Expecting Facts And Fables Fake Fool People Gridlock Imprisoned Inexorable Lies Life Narrative Remain Truth

Only if we transvalue the plain-vanilla standards of our life, we may bring back things to light and sense the lies behind perceptions. (Behind the frosted glass)

~ Erik Pevernagie

Erik Pevernagie Bring To Light Frosted Glass Lies Life Perceptions Plain Vanilla Sense Standards Things Transvalue

When life hasn’t got a swing anymore, people may give in to obsessive oniomaniac compulsions, in as much as they are going out of their way to construct a flamboyant life style and change their identity from “don’t-need” to “must-have” consumers, so as to satisfy their gripping buying desire. (Buying now. Dying later)

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Erik Pevernagie Buying Desire Compulsions Consumers Don T Need Flamboyant Gripping Identity Life Life Style Must Have Customer Obsessive Oniomania Satisfy Swing

If we really want to know, who we are and recognize our identity, we have to find out the identity of the others. By making friends with the others, we are able to make friends with ourselves. At that moment, we can sense how everything falls into place. ( “ Steps in the unknown )

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Erik Pevernagie Fall Find Out Identity Know Make Friends Others Place Recognize Sense

By looking for the unexpected and discerning the surreptitious features in the scenery within us, we apprehend our personality, find out our identity and learn how to cultivate it. Taking care of our fingerprints will be an enduring endeavor. ( Looking for the unexpected )

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Erik Pevernagie Cultivate Discerning Endeavour Enduring Features Find Out Fingerprints Identity Personality Surreptitious Take Care Of Unexpected

A promise is a gift and a gift is a symbol of a social relationship. The donor is aware that it creates a link and the recipient identifies it as a mutual bond. A gift, however, is tangible and a promise is not. Eventually, a promise can be expounded as misunderstood, or misheard or it is simply over and done. If misheard, the social bond is to be put into question. If forgotten, it can be reminded but this is embarrassing. If elapsed, it is one of those broken promises that infest countless relationships. ( Promised me a breeze of freedom )

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Erik Pevernagie Bond Donor Elapsed Embarrassing Forgotten Gift Identity Infect Link Misheard Misunderstand Mutual Promise Remind Social Relationships Symbol Tangible

Everybody wants what feels good; and if we wish a symphony of attention from a bunch of caring people and a harmony of happy sounds during our lifetime, we must not act like dark horses, saving up our emotions, but be bountiful to all significant others. ( “Axelle Red “)

~ Erik Pevernagie

Erik Pevernagie Attention Bountiful Caring Person Dark Horses Emotions Feel Good Happy Harmony Lifetime Significant Other

Is love just a butterfly? Love can tell us so many things about the deep waters of our inner self and the secrecy in the hidden brushwood of our emotions. (Alpha and Omega)

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Erik Pevernagie Alpha And Omega Brushwood Butterfly Deep Waters Emotions Hidden Inner Self Love Secrecy Tell Things

We are all the construction of a story and it is only at the end that we can assess the value of the plot. (Everybody his story)

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Erik Pevernagie Assess At The End Construction Plot Story Value

People are not dying of lack of money but of lack of esteem and awareness. (Kein Schwein ruft mich an)

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Erik Pevernagie Awareness Dying Esteem Lack Of Money Schwein

We may be happy but just don’t know it yet. Many want to rebuke themselves for not finding the threshold of well being, since they simply haven’t learnt to be nice to themselves and to enjoy the privileged twinklings of life. (C’est quand le bonheur ? )

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Erik Pevernagie Enjoy Happy Know Learn Life Nice Privileged Rebuke Threshold Twinkling Well Being

Being happy is harder than being discontent. For happiness we have to roll up our sleeves and knock down houses of cards. Because of this exertion, many prefer to abide by ‘fake’ happiness.( Happiness blowing in the wind. )

~ Erik Pevernagie

Erik Pevernagie Abide By Blowing In The Wind Discontent Exertion Fake Happiness Happy Hard Houses Of Cards Knock Down Prefer Roll Up Sleeves

Some feel lucky, if they haven't got to be happy, as they don’t like their frame of mind to be unravelled and prefer to be left well enough alone. ( C’est quand le bonheur ? )

~ Erik Pevernagie

Erik Pevernagie Bonheur Feel Frame Of Mind Happy Leave Alone Like Lucky Prefer Unravelled

For the discovery of self we have to overcome the fear of self, so as to find the marrow ‘within’ and disclose our ‘true’ self. (Everybody his story)

~ Erik Pevernagie

Erik Pevernagie Disclose Discovery Of Oneself Fear Of Self Marrow Overcome Story True Self Within

Life is an intricate play with actors waiting for an explanation. Each added act confers a new interpretation of the story. ( Waiting for the pieces to fall into place )

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Erik Pevernagie Act Actors Interpretation Life Play Story

Some are condemned to remain mere “clock and smart phone watchers”, inasmuch as they are not able to read and interpret the lines of their life or don't even treasure the enchantment of daily captivating moments. If we are not prepared to give some personal time to social time, we walk like blind men through gloomy alleys of our existence. ( Please. Just a bit of a chat )

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Erik Pevernagie Able Alleys Blind Men Captivating Chat Clock Condemned Daily Enchantment Existence Give Gloomy Interpret Life Lines Moments Personal Time Prepared Read Remain Smart Phone Social Time Treasure Walk Watchers

If the context is lost and merely bits and pieces remain from a scattered existence, only the connection of anchor points may reinstate a distorted mental balance in an upset life story. (Lost the global story. )

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Erik Pevernagie Anchor Points Bits And Pieces Connection Context Distorted Existence Global Life Story Lost Mental Balance Merely Reinstate Remain Scattered Upset

In a lifeworld, where we can be what we are, and not what people expect us to be, we can escape a blank and void existence, which is linked to wrecking ennui. Boredom often slips into revulsion and nausea, for not being able to find an identity and not succeeding in acquiring individuality with the quality of authenticity. (Like a frozen image)

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Erik Pevernagie Acquiring Authenticity Blank Boredome Ennui Escape Existence Expect Frozen Image Individuality Life World Linked People Revulsion Slip Succeeding To Be Void Wrecking

Liberty is only possible on the condition of regularity. We cannot be free and play the game of life without abiding to the rules, but the rules have to be adapted constantly in line with our experiences and the events we encounter. ( “If he doesn't play ball “ )

~ Erik Pevernagie

Erik Pevernagie Abide Adapt Condition Constantly Encounter Events Experiences Free Game In Line Liberty Life Play Play Ball Regularity Rules

When we allow ourselves to show some patience and take time to listen to the others, we may learn a lot about ourselves. Patience does not endure instant gratification, though, and self-knowledge may take a lifetime. (“I am on my own side, but I can listen “ )

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Erik Pevernagie Allow Endure Gratification Instant Learn Listen Others Ourselves Patience Self Knowledge Show Side Take A Life Take Time

Love is like a musical score, sometimes very tuneful, creating a harmony of sounds, sometimes extremely harsh, striking a hell of false notes. (“Love lying fallow “)

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Erik Pevernagie Create Extremely False Notes Harmony Harsh Hell Love Musical Score Sounds Striking Tuneful

When the bonfire of love still smolders in the wake of emotional convulsions, seeds of regret and remorse may endlessly linger about on the path of life. (Taken for a ride)

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Erik Pevernagie Bonfire Convulsion Emotional Endlessly In The Wake Of Linger Love Path Of Life Regret Remorse Seed Smolder Taken For A Ride

Regret and remorse” is a dialectic issue about what has been done, about what should have been done and about what should not have been done. ( “Island of regret. Island of remorse” )

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Erik Pevernagie Dialect Done Island Issue Regret Remorse Should Have

Love can crystallize things. When love is in the air, distressing rain can become a wonderful avalanche of shimmering diamonds. Raindrops are transformed into a flood of sparkling crystal pearls. The power of love can convert rain into a multitude of glittering prisms. The mental seduction of love and a boundless illusion, inflamed by a profound uprising emotion, can change any ordinary incident into a radiant, luminous voyage. ( Crystallization under an umbrella )

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Erik Pevernagie Crystallized Dreams Diamonds Emotion Illusion Love Mental Pearls Prism Rain Raindrops Seduction

Love is illiterate. Whether we write it big or small, we cannot read it. We might only guess. ( I seek you )

~ Erik Pevernagie

Erik Pevernagie Big Guess Illiterate Love Read Seek Small Write

Postmen have a legendary aura. A ring at the doorbell may inflame a sense of expectation, suspense, secrecy, hazard or even intrigue. Ringing twice may imply a warning that trouble is on the way or an appeal to make the coast clear. Not all mailmen, though, will ring twice and await an eye-catching Lana Turner, whom they can whisper: With my brains and your looks, we could go places.” (The postman always rings twice)

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Erik Pevernagie Appeal Aura Await Brains Coast Doorbell Expectation Eye Catching Go Places Hazard Imply Inflame Intrigue Lana Turner Legendary Looks Mailman On The Way Postman Ring Ring Twice Ringing Secrecy Sense Suspense Trouble Twice Warning Whisper

For some, life may be a playground to undermine the brainwaves of others or simply a vainglorious game with an armory of theatrics, illustrating only bleak self-deception, haughty narcissism and dim deficiency in empathy. (Another empty room)

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Erik Pevernagie Armory Bleak Brainwave Deficiency Dim Empathy Empty Game Haughty Illustrating Life Narcissism Playground Room Self Deception Some Theatrics Undermine Vainglorious

Love assumes expectation and hope. All actors of the hazardous pursuit of love eagerly look forward to passing a significant cape without injuries or aching scratches: the Cape of good Hope. ( Those journeys of love )

~ Erik Pevernagie

Erik Pevernagie Expectations Hope Love

We can give happiness a chance: happiness is learnable. Life is a choice and happiness is a question of focusing, hearing and seeing the right things behind the appearances. It is a matter of finding out, differencing worthiness and irrelevance, connectedness and distantness, warmth and aloofness, brightness and dimness. Happiness is the lucky potential to steer friskily along the cliffs of the unknown avoiding the obstacles of narcissism and conceit. ( Happiness blowing in the wind. )

~ Erik Pevernagie

Erik Pevernagie Aloofness Appearances Brightness Connectedness Dimness Find Out Focusing Happiness Hearing Irrrelevant Life Lucky Narcissism Potential Seeing Warmth Wind

Jealousy appears to be a redoubtable pitfall for love, on the toll road of self-absorption and unshareability. When love has to remain cloistered and ostentatiously exclusionary, envy may show its pernicious power, cause wounding harms and unchain emotional twisters. (Why has Shé got stars in the sky?)

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Erik Pevernagie Cloistered Exclusionary Jealousy Love Pitfall Redoubtable Self Absorption Toll Road Unshareable

When some claim demarcation and “regulation”, others fancy “deregulation”, preferring foxes guarding the henhouse or chicken yards with free chickens and free foxes. Friend or foe, hen or fox, anyone can have a go. (“This far”)

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Erik Pevernagie Chicken Yard Chickens Claim Demarcation Deregulation Fancy Foxes Free Friend Or Foe Guard Have A Go Henhouse Prefer Regulation This Far

By confusing strategy with tactics and mixing up “what” and “how”, we may have a hard time staying on point. ”What” we want, on the one hand, and “how” we want to achieve it, on the other, needs a careful reading and a singular approach. (“When the bar is set too high”)

~ Erik Pevernagie

Erik Pevernagie Bar Mixing Up Stay On Point Strategy Tactics What And How

Between shortage and absolute poverty an ocean of shades and gradations do emerge on the scale of deficiency. Be that as it may, each stage must find a mode to leave a door ajar for the sun to peer in and human warmth to radiate. ( Homeless down in the corner)

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Erik Pevernagie Absolute Poverty Be That As It May Corner Deficiency Door Emerge Gradation Homeless Human Warmth Leave Ajar Mode Ocean Peer In Radiate Scale Shades Shortage Stage Sun

Once the dust of volcanic love has settled and the harshness of a new reality has become oppressive, disillusionment may have to be mended, wounds to be healed and emotional fallouts to be taken care of, mindfully ( Is that all there is ?)

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Erik Pevernagie Disillusionment Dust Emotional Harshness Love Mindfull New Reality Oppressive Volcanic Wounds

Emotional illiterates, who don’t recognize the sound of a broken heart, will never be able to hear the subtle vibrations of love reverberating through the rustling flora of life. (Love as dizzy as a cathedral”)

~ Erik Pevernagie

Erik Pevernagie Broken Heart Dizzy Emotional Flora Illiterates Life Love Recognize Reverberate Rustling Sound Subtle Vibrations

We are sometimes astounded by the behavior of emotional outlaws, as they act in line with their own standards, but proceed like bulls-in-a-china-shop, create one heck of a mess in their living environment and bring about shocking disturbing dissensions, ever since their inner construction clashes with our emotional architecture. (“Disruption”)

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Erik Pevernagie Act In Line Architecture Astounded Behavior Bulls In A China Shop Clash With Create Disruption Dissension Disturbing Emotional Emotional Outlaws Inner Construction Living Environment One Heck Of A Mess Proceed Shocking Standards

When love becomes a play of squirming mindgames or a tinderbox of mental conflicts, emotional benchmarks need an unremitting reset. (Another empty room)

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Erik Pevernagie Benchmarks Conflicts Emotional Empty Love Mental Mindgames Play Reset Room Squirming Tinderbox Unremitting

When one has come to explore the ' instant moment ' and one has chosen to savor the delights of life, which are hidden behind the curtain of haste and superficiality, then ' mental time ' is replacing ' sequential time '. So ' here ' and ' now ' are keeping hustle and impatience in check. ( Just for a moment )

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Erik Pevernagie Chosen Haste Here Hustle Impatience Life Mental Moment Now Superficiality Time

When the shine is wearing off and the underlying cracks of a garlanded lifestyle become painfully apparent, reality may inexorably take its toll and gruelingly reveal the presence of a blatant and hideous gap of irrelevance and vanity. (Could the milk man be the devil? )

~ Erik Pevernagie

Erik Pevernagie Blatant Garland Hideous Irrelevance Lifestyle Milkman Reality Shine Underlying Cracks Vanity
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