After delivering a major and intensive project, I get the opportunity to reclaim my time and head to the gym — with Martin Luther King Jr.’s timeless final speech playing in my ears. A never-ending source of energy. Just before redressing into a suit for a round table discussion on international business.
I go down there every evening just to feel the beat.
With this routine, I can combine my office time and fit in two training sessions each day. After starting the morning with a walk using my training poles, I spend the day in the office. To keep the momentum going, I take my kettlebells outside, even in the rain, just before continuing my evening session in the office.
In the midst of page breaks while producing annual reports and writing documents for notices of general meetings, I raise my eyes from the screen and move away from the keyboard. Looking out the office window, I observe the sun's light dancing and almost sense a breeze from the sea at the end of the street. I tell myself, "Hurry, boy, it's waiting for you outside - my kettlebells for the lunch break."
Business and pleasure – after more than six weeks of non-stop special assignments every day, I was rewarded with the opportunity to drop my keyboard and see ‘The Seventh Seal’ live.
It’s me and Woody Allen, with beliefs in ‘The Seventh Seal,’ likely one of the best movies ever. This masterpiece by Ingmar Bergman was featured in a new, rearranged production at our local theatre. As an avid fan, I was there to savor all my favorite lines:
“KNIGHT: I want knowledge, not faith, not suppositions, but knowledge. I want God to stretch out His hand towards me, reveal Himself and speak to me.
KNIGHT: I want to ask him about God. He, if anyone, must know.
KARIN: Now I can see that it's you. Somewhere in your eyes, somewhere in your face, but hidden and frightened, is that boy who went away so many years ago.
And when the Lamb broke the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about the space of half an hour. And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets. And another …”
