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Every stoplight is red the last 48 hours
I have been running around the last days, working, arranging and yet in the end: nothing...
Time passing by.
Checking on the rules of a 'shabbatyear', paying bills for social security, wondering when my taxes pay back, making appointments for business, and running into too many closed doors...
Sometimes I get sick of it, when things don't rule like they have to. When you have every stoplight for the next 48 hours.
Things have to collide, go smoothly and easy. And it is fun when it works.
It worked like that for the last 3 years.
Silently I am still waiting when the 7 years of luck will turn.
But I never believe they come, I don't want to believe.
Not even after this horrible week of too many costs (fixing motorcycle, paying fee of towing away the car, and other bad luck I had lately.)
I can't stop thinking tomorrow will be better.
It is the only thing you can stick to. Because for me, I believe in the self furfilling prophecy.
People ask me wether I have changed. Because I look the same and I do the same.
But I did. In the way I dream away. In the way I am here and not always here.
I takes me time to oversee 8 months. To see things from here, to put them in a perspective.
That's what I am busy with in a way. Remembering and giving it a place.
The other thing is that you make relativations, much more than people who haven't been away.
'The bigger perspective'. And maybe a sociologue should make a research on it. I think it could be very interesting.
Probably I am not the only one who experiences things like that after a trip.
But everytime coming back from somewhere, it is the thing that strikes me.
'We are so lucky. We just don't see it or forget to see.'
I guess you're right, that those things are easy to say for me. Because I don't have to worry, and I am away in no time.
I don't know. I face the same bullnuts when going to the taxes, when paying the bills, when having stupid problems or less stupid problems.
And yet.
It sounds cruel, but thinking of worse misery, I can smile in a minute.
(It is not cruel, it is more cruel to those people to say you're unhappy (with all that wealth) )
I had a discussion on that with John, who says Belgium is a country that will go bankrupt in some years. Maybe he's right. But I don't mind paying those taxes. Ok, we all curse when the bills come into the mailbox.
But some days ago I had to pay the dentist, I went with the bill to the social security and got almost everything back...
You have to take advantage of those things... (in a good way I mean)
Some people say that the money I get now from the government is their money.
Hey! It is my money too! I have been working for some years (not much, but I did pay taxes) and I will be working for more years.
I am just the one using it, asking for pay-back time in what I invested.
That's what that money is for.
No guilt on that. (It is not that I am lying in the sun, doing nothing...)
Yesterday the organisation of companies decided to put the costs for one employee on the paying bills. Nice, it will make people think what your boss is paying for you.
And the man in the television was saying interesting things: the money our bosses pay, are giving us social security, and a government. And all the other advantages.
People tend to forget why we live in wealth.
The other question, I had to agree on, and what John means, is 'Does the business and companies have to pay for all that stuff?'
The thing is, when the companies won't pay for it anymore, somebody else will. So be prepared for higher taxes... grin.
Posted on July 25, 2003
in Living in Belgium
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well, just think that there are places where tax money is dedicated for 'defense's, or 'dedicated to prevent terror'... you know all these very good reasons to make us pay taxes.
Posted by sigal | October 8, 2003 9:33 AMI pay nearly 40% taxes, and I have nothing to say about how should it be spent. frustrating indeed.
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