Provence Forever - Massimo Cereso

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environment with my car in the fastest way possible. But since our garage was right next to the entrance of our house, the police officer recognized me and wanted to stop my car, which was already in motion, in a daring and life-threatening action. He yelled like a madman and screamed, "Stop, stop!" Then he jumped on the rear of my car and, since I did not stop immediately and the car continued to move for about ten meters, he was dragged along accordingly. This circumstance had serious consequences. Even afterwards I was arrested by this policeman and brought before the competent examining magistrate; in addition, my driver's license was revoked for a longer period of time. After complete clarification of the criminal facts, I was finally released from the remand prison after three days. The subsequent court verdict brought me a minor prison sentence, which was suspended for two years.

      My childhood sweetheart Sabrina was an outspoken beauty who was the envy of everyone. While her wishes and dreams had always come true until our marriage, she no longer had this happiness in her later life. Although Sabrina had married a man fifteen years her senior in a top executive position after our divorce, she was no longer happy with him and eventually put an end to her life herself. Sabrina came from humble beginnings and had a very hard youth in which she had to fight for everything herself. At the moment of our marriage, me and Sabrina did not have any assets; this was also one of the reasons why my parents stayed away from our marriage, which did not correspond to their ideas of a wedding befitting their status. In my later life, I could see again and again that people from modest backgrounds make the highest demands in their later lives, because once they have had a taste of a good life in luxury and financial independence, they do not want to return to their modest circumstances under any circumstances, but cling on like drowning people and try by all means to maintain what they have achieved.

      The most important things for them are money and wealth, and since they had to fight for survival like animals in their youth, they also behave like animals. I would like to explicitly state that this is mainly about female creatures who happen to have achieved a noticeable social advancement through their marriage. On the other hand, I treat people from the same milieu, who have earned their later success and prosperity themselves, with the deepest respect.

      Children who spent their youth in an affluent family and did not have to struggle for daily survival often unfortunately only learn in later years that a future life under equal conditions cannot be taken for granted.

      In my situation at the time, without a driver's license and due to the additional obligation to make corresponding maintenance payments to Sabrina, I was forced to sell weekly magazines on an annual subscription basis for a publishing company. I traveled by public transport and sold these subscriptions to numerous households. The description of my experiences would take up a chapter of its own, ranging from confrontations with biting dogs, to sex-starved women who wanted to be satisfied immediately, to homosexual men, to old women who wanted to tell me their long stories of illness. All in all, I earned an above-average amount of money by selling these magazines at that time; but since I had also catered to certain desires of the female sex on several occasions, my commissions were ultimately hard-earned money. After a year, I gave up this job again, preferring to spend the next few years in various companies in the field.

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      Anushka

      In the meantime, I had reached my twenty-eighth year and was married for the second time. Anushka, with whom I was to share my life in the following twenty-nine years, corresponded to my ideas in every respect. Still far from my expectations in those days, however, was my professional success, which still had not materialized to my satisfaction. At that time, I had proven myself through diligence and had been promoted to sales manager in a pharmaceutical company. This meant that I could look forward to an orderly future with a secure pension, but this was anything but my fulfillment. Living a life like millions of other people live and have to live every day was not my life. Something had to happen, my inner restlessness could no longer be endured, I wanted to carry out an independent activity under all circumstances. So, in addition to my daily work as an employee, I began to visit some industrial fairs at home and abroad in order to find suitable industrial goods that I could sell independently. Anushka, who had very modest demands on life and put inner values above financial prosperity, agreed with my desire to work out my own company.

      We had a beautiful home and were very happy, my previous marriage to Sabrina now no longer burdened me. With the additional savings that Anushka had brought into our marriage, every foundation was laid for a fulfilling life together. My parents thanked God that a woman like Anushka was with me, and Anushka was welcomed into my family like my own child and respected in every way.

      Anushka was the daughter of a large landowner and was allowed to spend a beautiful youth in the circle of her family. But as a result of political power shifts and military conflicts, the family had lost their beautiful estate in what was then Czechoslovakia, a blow that her father did not survive. The family had to leave their ancestral home and start a new life in a foreign land. These challenges welded this family into an inseparable unit, and their surroundings at that time, surrounded by nature and animals, shaped Anushka's character. Anushka's mother was always a lady to her father and for these reasons Anushka also became a lady. Her upbringing was perfect, ethics and morals were always a matter of course and never during our twenty-nine years of being together did I hear a word of cursing or a lie. Anushka is truly the only lady I have met in my life so far. Anushka's consummate beauty was not so much external as ascertainable within her soul. Her outer appearance corresponded to a rough and fascinating landscape, her eyes were blue cornflowers, her body was slender and flexible like an ear of corn. I cannot imagine that Anushka could have endured life with me for so long without her youthful experiences. In addition, however, there was our daughter Katja, who in any case also had a right to orderly family circumstances in a beautiful home.

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      The second company

      By visiting important industrial fairs abroad, I again found interesting products, this time of the food industry, which I was able to sell to the industry in Switzerland as an independent entrepreneur. The necessary start-up capital for my second company was once again provided by my parents, but despite tireless work and the greatest personal commitment, it was extremely difficult to sell these products to industry; the development of this new business continually consumed additional funds, which I received as loans from various banks. Since many smaller orders were placed with me in a relatively short period of time, the desired success had to be achieved in the long term, which is what happened after I received the corresponding orders. Thus, not only could my loans to the banks be repaid in a short time, but I was also in the fortunate situation of being able to work out additional assets. The following two years were crowned with success and my private life with my family was blessed with happiness. Unfortunately, however, eternity only exists in death, and so the news from my manufacturer that it wanted to set up its own subsidiary in Switzerland and would therefore soon no longer be able to fulfill our supply contracts hit me like a bolt from the blue. I had built up this market with diligence and great financial risk, now others were to profit from it - I admit that I found this difficult to accept.

      At that time I understood that ruthlessness, brutality and amoral actions are the keys to comprehensive financial success. These exploiters, who call themselves human, have no measure and also want to put even more into their greedy throats; Unfortunately, experience shows that few choke on this insatiable greed. This is also the reason, why large companies and their boards and shareholders are becoming more and more powerful at the expense of small and medium-sized enterprises. Forward-looking companies which, despite hard work, an appropriate portion of pioneering spirit and a large financial risk due to insufficient equity, fail to achieve the success they deserve, end up being taken over or significantly controlled by large corporations and banks.

      Due to this loss, I was forced to immediately find a replacement product in order to continue supplying my customers, but despite my best efforts, I could not find a manufacturer that produced exactly those products. It was then that I realized that diversification through different

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