Posted by Helena Smole in Improved self-image
on Apr 30th, 2012
The title itself shows a certain redundancy: the word ‘own’ repeats itself twice. Similarly, over the years, despite of the whole ‘women’s lib’ thing going on, I found it totally redundant to own my own car. After 4 years of trying really hard to relax behind the wheel, I gave up driving due to a clear hallucination. Let me tell you the whole true story:
I was driving in the countryside. My husband was sitting in the co-driver’s seat. Suddenly out of the blue I saw a human being trying to cross the road. I panicked, stepped off the gas and started to pull the brakes.
My husband...
Posted by Helena Smole in Relationships
on Apr 23rd, 2012
I will tell you a true story that I remember from my kindergarten years. I must have been 4 or 5, when this happened:
We, the kids in a kindergarten group, did something bad. I don’t remember what it was anymore. But what I do remember is that the child-minder responsible for us was angry and sad. And I also remember a bitter feeling of guilt in my heart. So I spoke to my colleague Boštjan K. I chose him, because I liked him (he was a good guy). He agreed that what we did was not exactly nice. We made a plan and went through with it. We approached the child-minder. I spoke, Boštjan was there to...
Posted by Helena Smole in Relationships
on Apr 16th, 2012
This time I decided to simply tell a true story I witnessed and refrain from any moralizing:
A group of surveyors have a field assignment. They have to measure the ground above a tunnel being built. They use all sorts of high-tech equipment I would not know about. But what I do get is the importance of the so called targets set on the terrain in question. These targets are making it possible for the surveyors to conduct the measurements.
Later, at lunch time, they come to pick up the targets and to their very unpleasant surprise, they find some people touching and moving the targets. It is not the...