The Digger

The life of a man who’s always digging is a fascinating therapy of learning how to hold the hue.

This man enjoys to dig. He’s done it all his lifetime. He has a reputation for being the best…in digging the best, for preserving his favourite activity from becoming too…common.

His simple life was enriched by it. At first, it was curiosity. Then, it became an idea of having fun. It went from boring to necessary and imperative for living. Now, it’s a  way of taking care of his favourite toy:  the hue.

His digging is – of course – influenced by the weather. From time to time, he’s tired of finding other places. In his beautiful mind, digging makes  a fabulous sense.  It even sounds like a quartet  of pleasure, pain, positivity and prophecy of how digging should feel like in a few years.

The digger’s soul is a beautifully arranged box of feelings and principles of life, gathered through some sort of introverted dialogues. He’s wiser than others, because he’s always willing to change the hue and never give up.

He’s the man who’s always digging.

The world of gears and bolts

On Seduction

Seducers are themselves providers of  pleasure, like bees that gather pollen from some flowers and deliver it to others(…)

(…)A seducer sees all of life as a theatre, everyone an actor. Most people feel they have constricted roles in life, which makes them unhappy. Seducers, on the other hand, can be anyone and can assume many roles[...] Seducers take pleasure in performing and are not weighed down by their identity, or by some need to be themselves, or to be natural.  This freedom of theirs, this fluidity in body and spirit is what makes them attractive. What people lack in life is not more than reality but illusion, fantasy, play[...] Seduction is a kind of theatre in real life, the meeting of illusion and reality.

Seduction is a form of deception, but people want to be led astray, they yearn to be seduced. If they didn’t, seducers wouldn’t find so many  willing victims.

from The  Art of Seduction, by Robert Greene.

Love and business as a full time hobby

Weather you’re concerned about the market demand, the financial statements, or the working capital, the way you practice love and business as a full time hobby brings up a certain amount of unlimited liability for both areas.

In business, it’s less important how well the other is doing; you always strive to have something different, something which makes you unique and gives you a competitive advantage, more profit, or an outstanding bench marking.

Love is about sharing another kind of profit: the differences and similarities; in love you strive to make the other better because you know that this will make you both, in the end, better…

Love is when you renounce to something just because you know that the other is going to be “healthier” without you…business is the other way around.

In business, you can’t feel lonely; your partners, clients and suppliers will always be the friends and enemies you need when you practice your hobby. In love, it’s obviously, different. You can feel lonely when you’re in the middle of a crowd of friends and partners, or you can feel overwhelmed by emotions when you’re literally alone.

In business, Return on Investment makes you powerful and fearful; in love, the ROI makes you happy, satisfied, and accomplished…

In love, you can fool yourself believing that the other appreciates and loves what you are and what you’re doing. In business, there’s no such thing. You have to be more than good to stand out, to upsell your services, increase the price ceiling and the revenue and finally to perform and make yourself noticed in the middle of the mob.

Both in love and business there are things you can fake. It depends on you to find something that you can’t, maybe integrity…In both there is depreciation, or another issue to quarrel about, but there is a big difference in how the downsizes and reconciliation feel like. In both you have a short and a long term notice and it takes passion to create what you dream at.

In each case, the performance appraisal is either ending by firmly shaking hands and approving that “for the next few months we’ll focus on retail investment” or a matter of gently touching your partner’s forehead and saying “ I will love you forever” in all the languages he/she can speak…

The funny thing is that both in business and love you can have regrets, success, luck and mistakes. Some bigger than others. Confusion arises when you don’t know what human organ or which part of the body to use in carrying out each of them: brain or heart, rationality or intuition…

When business and love are a full time hobby, you need to practice each of them on a part-time basis; to enjoy the overtime, to balance and rebalance it from time to time. There are plenty of differences. Plenty of similarities. The important thing for 2 partners is to have that 50% equity, both in love, and in business.

I think this makes this hobby a full time performance.