Moje rytuały
My Rituals

Summary/Abstract: Morning. A new day in life. What will it bring? The question quietly emerges from the conscious mind, still not fully awake after the night’s sleep. The thought of coffee seems to be the most important during the first moments of waking. “Can we think of anything better than this fantastic kick to our whole system of psychophysics towards the day, towards life?” According to Jerzy Łukosz, the only thing which seems clear in the misty moment between sleeping and being awake is the perspective of indulging in a deliciously fragrant cup of coffee. The ritual of drinking coffee as a prelude to the new day gives the author hope that it will be an exceptional one. His excited mind forms beautiful and creative images despite the fact that sooner or later reality will bite with its humdrum mediocrity. The next ritual, the walk, enables the author to rest from his writing and to distance himself from what he has just put on paper. Leaving the house to walk over the nearby railway tracks and to see the horizon which connects the sky and the earth is of great importance to the writer. The sight of this connection seems to confirm what the taste of coffee suggested in the morning: the opposition to mundane monotony holds a great value “because the shriek of reality continuously teaches me how to make it more lofty, how to bring it out from its source and lift it to the sky,” says Jerzy Łukosz. The author longs for the day when he can experience harmony between his own expectations and what life has to offer: the desired quality of the day gone by that brings satisfaction and unspoken happiness – the desired touch of the sky without lifting oneself from the ground.

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