
-If I had to chose only one thing that you ve read or watched, listened or experienced, from a poem to a song or a movie, only one thing that can describe you as a person, what would that be?
- There is a song called “struggle for pleasure”, by Wim Mertens.
- Do you remember who suggested this song?
- Yes, in fact it was my mother. I ve heard it from her. I have kindly connected the sound of this piece with my mum, standing in the living-room in my house, covered with a blanket, quite strange memory..I don’t know, it seems a rather strange and distant memory..
- I don’t believe it is. I’ve also got occasional memories, like pictures captured in my mind, one scene. Sometimes I wonder if these are true incidents or just things that my mind has created.
- You think? This particular memory of mine is so peaceful, I always choose this song when I am happy with my life or when I want to see things in a positive way.
- If I asked you to create a positive near future around this song, what would that be?
- I would like to have my own space, not necessarily big, but my own- I would decorate it just the way I wanted..And I would like to have friends, you know, the same strong relationships that I got now. That’s actually my biggest concern, to lose my friends. I believe that this is the most important thing in the world for me..I would like to combine these two somewhere in the centre of Athens, but I am not sure if this a doable scenario any more. I watch how many people have to split lately because of the situation, how many people of my age think over their life abroad. For me, this would be a really difficult decision, almost impossible, to start your entire life all over again, to leave your beloved ones behind. Let’s say that I am a person that can’t leave others behind.
- If I told you that it wasn’t you that left your friends but your friends that left you?
- I would be really sad. This is my deepest fear. I have realized who are the people that I care the most, that is why I would be feeling very vulnerable in case I had to lose them..
Dordrecht (2012)