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“What you do for a living?” He countered.
Parent's gatherings is something new to me and will never cease to amaze me, I think. Our preschool-aged kids imagine that we adults know everything. I see us as kids, a little older, only pretending to know.
He was a tall, of balanced proportions, dad wearing a grey neck jumper and beige chinos appropriate for a work meeting – if it’s a tech startup – as well as for a casual chat about the kids. We were standing in the shade next to a swimming pool that came with a palm tree and a house he and his wife bought last winter. I was staring at his fully red trainers, trying, with no success, to decode their brand.
“Well, right now I work on my app, I'm a software developer, but generally I do many things,” I said. “I used to work as a photographer, furniture maker, I like to create, you know.” He frowned and his eyes went disengaged. Most adults, I met, expect to hear one job title in one industry.
“So you do everything and nothing,” he reacted as if he announced today is a warm and sunny day while thinking about two upcoming board meetings and a few people to fire.
I smiled.
“Papa, look,” she shouted. I looked at my four-year-old daughter flying a purple aeroplane she never played with before.
Hi, my name is Piotr.
This blog is about the nothing for some and the evrything for others, or as someone equally curious would say: about life and revelation.