Vignettes of "when enough enough is"
I once worked for a few years with a colleague who would – just about now – lean back in her chair, frown
ever so lightly and say: “This all sounds very well, but, concretely, what does it mean and what are we
to do?” I’ve no idea, concretely, what you will do in a world of abundance, I do not even have an idea,
vaguely, what I will do. Hence, I cannot give you a list of things to do. There may well be fifty ways
to leave your lover, but there are no fifty was to live abundantly. What I can, and will do, is ask a
good friend of mine, K, to sketch for you ten stories, ten vignettes of abundant lives. Five are about
persons and five about organizations, each time focusing on one of the five big questions. With one or
two exceptions they are stories or situations about people whom K knew or knows very well or where he
was personally involved. To protect the innocent, and the not quite so innocent, names and places are
usually not the correct ones – precisely as it should be in a work of the imagination! K told me that
the little stories are certainly not exemplary, but perhaps they do inspire you to look at your life
through a different frame. Maybe, just maybe, you like what you see.
And if K finally gets here, we can start.