Put A Stone On It!

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He had a good life, a company that made him earn money, married his wife from a good family and had three children who were teenagers then. But five years earlier, his wool knitwear business went into crisis due to customers who hadn’t paid him. So, he went bankrupt. His wife left him, and his three children went to live with her.

He was left with the family villa, which he still had to continue paying for, and he needed to pay alimony to his wife for his children. But that didn’t stop him. His theory was:

If something ends, do not stand there trying to recreate it to restart it from the same point in the same direction to get back the same thing you had. This constantly leads you to think about what you did wrong. One thing ended badly, stop there, start a completely new thing. The old one is finished, so put a stone on it and go somewhere else with the few things you are left with.

Instead of reopening a new shirt factory, trying to regain the trust of the banks, suppliers and customers who had already judged it after declaring bankruptcy, he started selling encyclopedias.

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New York

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Something had happened from what I saw on a TV in the airport security office. Everyone was watching that TV that the police watched to pass the time, and I think before we got there, they had a lot, a lot of time. 

From what little I saw on that TV, there were missiles hitting skyscrapers, and then the towers fell as if they had been shot down.

They thought it was an advertisement, but instead, that was the news of the moment. Two pilots near me said it was impossible. The fact is that those skyscrapers were in New York and that we could not fly to New York for no one knows how long, maybe a few hours or days.

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The pilots

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The job of a pilot is a tough nut to crack, contrary to what ordinary people think and how much prestige they have. They always have to stay there in the cabin in a place so tight that not even a train station toilet is so tight. With a person, the co-pilot, whom he has not chosen, who must tell him everything he does, and he replies, “I checked that you did it. This is for flight safety,” to avoid thinking one thing and doing another or not doing it at all. 

Nobody wants to have someone who controls everything you do, even for double the salary as a pilot. After an hour, one would go crazy; instead, they stay there every day in that condition. They can’t even say:

“I will go out for five minutes for a walk.” Where are you going? You are at ten thousand meters above sea level.

So, they are expected to do it reluctantly when they have to talk to passengers. Who wouldn’t be? They have to communicate, but if the passengers don’t understand, it doesn’t matter. They have done their job.

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The Kodak

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In the morning, when we woke up, we told each other that we had slept well, even though it wasn’t true. Like the previous day, it was already mid-morning. We had slept in one position all night. The bed was tight for two. But she loved animals, and Tiffany was the only one who slept well on the sofa, which was essential to her. We gobbled breakfast. She ate only sushi and green tea for breakfast. I ate what was available, but fish in the morning? For sure not.

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Topsail

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Paperback

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Reagan And Newfoundland

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