I’m answering a letter here which was forwarded to me.
A very nice and pleasant lady, whom I feel honoured to have been in touch with, expressed in that letter her melancholy mood due to a decision she had made.
After many years dedicated to her long and gratifying lecturing career, she had just come to the conclusion that it was time to turn the page and retire.
I can understand that every decision of this kind provokes mixed feelings, even though as in this case it was quite motivated.
I refuse to fall into the marsh of rhetoric and the commonplace; it would not be in my nature; so I simply went to my cellar and took a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc and two glasses to have a virtual drink with my friend.
The soft orange light of sunset is burning in the sky, but night is still far away.
It’s time for a bit of thoughtful rest.
Being free in life means being responsible and one needs much more courage to accept one’s natural limits with dignity and serenity, rather than to push oneself behind those limits, only to deceive oneself and others.
“We must start to discern what we carry forward with us.”
This is the best starting point to consider every brand new day as the first day of the rest of our life.
Living retrospectively is a waste and constantly carrying too many things which have been part of a former cycle of life is a useless burden which doesn’t allow us to walk freely enough toward what we intend to do and to build up.

“Would you like another glass of Sauvignon, my dear friend?”