In today’s constantly-developing society where information technology not only forces its way into public, but also private life, reading and communication culture is changing: one can read a book on the Internet, or on the Amazon Kindle. One might wonder where the human touch has gone, when we used to attend literature classes and dip our hungry minds and souls in that kind of “nourishment”.

“Sand in the shoes”- this is how it sometimes feels

When was the last time you read a novel? Do you still recall when you used to send postcards to your colleagues or friends? Probably not.

"Sand in the shoes"- this is how it sometimes feels

Changing mode of society wrapped in technology veil started to mutate. It’s pathetic, but this is reality. Add time pressure, and we bow our heads thus thanking speedy technology, using the opportunity to communicate via internet or electronic mailing.

In 2005 I was already working for the European Parliament in the administration, and as an ordinary expat I was commuting quite often back home, trying to catch up with my family and friends. Once, back from my beloved Lithuania to Brussels I happened to be accidentally seated by a special “stranger” during the flight.

The man was Mr. Rolandas Pavilionis – professor of philosophy. During 1990-2000 he was rector of Vilnius Universitetas, as well as a member of Lithuanian Seimas. In 2004, he became a member of the European Parliament.

It is sad to say that God’s finger decided to “steal” away this bright persona out of our human circle. In 2006 Mr. Pavilionis after a long and tiring illness passed away.

This echoes my favorite quote by Sir Winston Churchill: “the mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking.”

As one unknown philosopher said: “At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.”
I would always remember my two hours conversation on the plane with him. It “milkshaked” my brains completely.
Physically he is not amongst us anymore, but spiritually “time, which changes people or takes them away, does not alter the image we have of them.”

It was as if a flash back upon his written texts – philosophy of life, laws of attraction, positive thinking, lust for change, provoking new challenges in life.

According to professor, we have to cease whining about our present, better to live here and now and program and polish our mind with positivity in order to be able to charge our potential towards the surrounding environment in a more productive mode.

This echoes my favorite quote by Sir Winston Churchill: “the mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking.”

That is indeed true…in life we are busy with many technical things at work, pumping brains with more and more information to be stored in our IQ cell “drawers”, thus forgetting that it is a necessity to unleash the thinking to more spiritual layers of life.
If you have a thorough inner balance inside you, you can become more productive in many spheres of life. We are all human beings, not robots; we all need to dilute our ego with much more filling-in solutions or substance.

“Sand in the shoes”- this is how it sometimes feels. You have a spiritual talk and “journey” together with someone during a short conversation and those words and discussions may leave deep imprints in your mind, thus making you reshuffle the scale of virtue of your existence. Those small particles of sand leaves a delicate reminiscence inside us, like a delicate tinkling between the toes.