At the
start of the party is was about people watching first. A strange experience to
hear nearly all people speaking English.
At a
certain moment a man entered the garden where the party took place. His partner
followed him at some distance like a dog on high heels. He took quite a bit of
space and entered the place in a somewhat majestic and self-important manner. A
way of looking around as; Does everyone see that I am here?
And yes, his
performing worked because you saw several people talking about his behavior and
his wife or girlfriend following him. He suggested to be someone important, or
at least he thought he was. I had never seen him before. With my experiences of
today wholeheartedly I had to laugh about it. It was a kind of theater show.
Dutch culture? Not real but still...
Although my son Rik tried to do his best, he did not succeed introducing more than half a kroket to my girlfriend 😉.
Back home
I accidentally ended up on a website where the growth of the world population
was shown live. Seeing that I thought, The Netherlands? What and where is that
in this big world? That man? Who is he?
Actually I
felt a bit anxious to see how our globe becomes more and more full of
consumers. Probably good for the economy and certainly it also has other sides
where we are increasingly experiencing the consequences more and more and day
by day. But that is something else.
When I
saw numbers of more than 7.5 billion people and thought back to this man, I
actually thought he was a bit miserable. Why do you act like this? What are you
worried about? How distended do you put yourself in the spotlight? What are you
actually proposing? Really important? What a pathetic presentation to get the
energy of attention so you can survive in this self-taught role.
My
parents would say; "Doing normal, is already crazy enough".
For sure,
every person in his or her own way is unique in this world. However, the
invitation in life is just to be yourself, nothing more and nothing less. And
with that uniqueness, in my eyes, you
don't have to show you are more or better than others (because you are not) or
start a marketing campaign to promote yourself…
Gangey Gruma (Frans Captijn)
Captijn Insight. Catalyst in developing tranquility & in-sight to get in a sustainable way real connection, purpose, pleasure and flow in life, love, family, business, career and work again.
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