I’ve just learned one thing: you can forget all that shit about real friends being there when you are in state of emergency. You learn who your real friends are when things are running fantastic! It is the ego thing: when you have a problem and you are down, many people will be happy to help because that’s when they are in the stronger position. When you are crashed, they are clever, rational, helpful, strong – which subconsciously boosts their ego. But hey, when you are up and fantastic things are happening to you and they should be happy for you, that’s hard. Because at those moments you are strong, you are the star and they only have a supporting role. And it’s only true friends who can forget their egos at those moments, and share your happiness without being the very centre of it. Some will just pretend as if nothing is happening, some will only say what’s polite, some will simply disappear. And some will even invent a reason to attack you. Peace.
Posts Tagged ‘Book’
First Feedback
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008“You are very interesting to us because you are a fresh name and a fresh face.” Gloria, Croatian best selling weekly yellow magazine. A fresh piece of meat, forget your work.
“I do not think we are going to organise an interview with you on the Catholic Radio.” Publisher˙s marketing manager. There goes the fun…..
“Now you can say you were naked on Zagreb˙s main square!” Lucija, as she has seen my book in a vindow of a bookstore on Jelacic Square.
Writers and their moms
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008Information form Croatian daily newspapers: Michel Houellebecq˙s mother wrote an autobiography called “L`Innocente” as the answer to things he has been writing about her in his books. “My son is actually arogant, he is a real parasite and a lier” she said, according to the newspaper. “If he ever mentions me again in his books, he is going to receive such a slap that all his teet are going to drop out.” In his interviews, Houellebecq calls her “old bitch”.
Oh how boring the world would be witout writers!
Why Shiva? Because Shiva is….
Sunday, April 20th, 2008A male God.
Devine Cosmic Dancer.
God of paradoxes:
God of destruction and creation.
Both an ascetic and a hedonist.
Dancing on the demon of ignorance.
Destroying the world of illusions in order to create a better new world.
The philosophy of Shiva is destrucive of illusions, but leads neither to inaction nor to pessimism. On the contrary, its wisdom allows it to enter harmoniously into the great „game“, lila, of life, to take part in it by dancing with all one’s heart and all one’s joy.
New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology
But here is one of my favorite Shiva images. I don’t like taking myself too serious….
