An old brown small suitcase once again


A huge suitcase. A bigger trunk. A trunk as big as a room… Nice ideas. But why should we bother with them and make so much trouble when close at hand, rather at foot, there is on the floor under the desk the old brown small suitcase fully packed with cables and wires and good and bad intentions as well. It is grinning to us and seems to say: you didn’t make the most of me, you left me for some vague fantastic visions while I have so much to offer and I am real and ready... So, let us not keep our heads high in the clouds, let’s look again under the desk at the old brown small suit case:


1. Don’t touch it. Don’t move it. The state it is in is the starting point. We take this moment as the beginning of our observation. Let the dust cover the suitcase and dull the noble shine of old varnish. Every day, every hour, every minute, or once a week we control if the cables project more or less from the gaping muzzle, if a new one has appeared or an old one has disappeared.

2. We take the suitcase out. Open it wide. Take all the cables out. We untangle them. Then we coil carefully each one individually. Arrange them. Document the arrangement. Remember it. Leave for some time. Do nothing. Absolutely nothing. Not even give a quick look at it. Then, after some time we take the suitcase out again. Open it. Control what has been changed. If something has got tangled. If anything ever.

3. We close the suitcase, close and lock, and start a journey. No matter where to. We don’t open it during the journey. We open it having come back and check what has changed inside. Whether an order has turned into chaos, when we had ordered everything before the journey. Whether chaos has turned into order, when we hadn’t ordered the cables and had left them swarming madly.

4. We arrange anew everything in the suitcase. We half-close it and push under the table. And we wait until one day we begin to look for a cable. We dig the suitcase through. We get furious. This is allowed, we can get angry, but we can’t forget about observation. We can’t forget we have to monitor and document the state of the content in every phase of searching. We must learn if any unintended, unpredicted, spontaneous tangling has happened.

5. ...

6. ...

And so on.

How long?


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