Never fall asleep in a mountain of fresh cherries. Yes, it sounds tempting, but believe me: the risks weigh considerably heavier than the benefits. Just ask the Moorish Muurgekko who has lived in Tilburg since yesterday. Until recently, he probably walked somewhere in southern Europe in the sun, now it is sitting make -up In quarantine in Zoo De Oliemeulen. He was found between a load of fruit, in a Jumbo distribution center in Veghel. There the staff caught the small stowaway in an empty cherry box.
The employee of the animal park who told the story on Tuesday Brabant today (Omroep Brabant) showed the improvised means of transport to the camera. In that transparent thing, the Gekko had been thinking his mistake, or perhaps all his life, overlooking the walls of the animal ambulance. If he could have read, after leaving the car he would have seen the following text on the board at his new place of residence: “De Oliemeulen Zoo. The strangest animal park in the Netherlands.” If only he had stayed away from that fruit …
But for regret it is too late, and now that the Gekko is here I would like to welcome him. Welcome to the Netherlands, poor boy. The least (or most?) That I can do for you is to catch up on what can be seen here on TV. Maybe that will help you to bridge your quarantine period, which will last between sixty and ninety days. I imagine that you can use some nice distraction.
That is why I will just skip that you cannot watch a talk show without a complete table, including the presenter, unanimously on GroenLinks-Pvda being pounded. And that this has been going on for a few days. People with other opinions are up, I fear. What is moving in turn – I try to keep the mood a bit optimistic to you, dear Gekko, at the start of your quarantine time – is how the mostly committed of De Telegraaf Talk showers suddenly appear to be with the fate of the left party.
In any case, it is striking that almost exclusively with them and with resigned members are spoken. But that also makes it clear: if you have seen one episode of an SBS6 or WNL talk program on this subject (or just De Telegraaf Have read), you no longer have to view the rest of the material. If you do that every day, you will ultimately reach the point that you are going to talk to Gekkos. But that might be a bigger problem for me than for you.
Learn to deal with fear
What can you do in the time you have left when you skip these shows? Therapy (Human) look back, for example; If you need a program in which people think about what they are doing from the inside, instead of what they think about it. On Monday evening the last episode of the second season was broadcast, but you can look back on the entire four -part on NPO Start.
The series follows the sessions of five therapists with different expertise – a child psychologist, a psychiatrist who specializes in psychoses, etc. – with their clients. Those clients are anonymous: they stay out of the picture and their share in the conversation has been re -enacted by voice actors. There is, however, a Dutch celebrity every episode who talks frankly about his own experiences with therapy. In the last episode it was presenter Max Terpstra, who was sitting so on for a while by his phobia to surrender that he was avoiding public places. In therapy he learned to deal with his fear in a healthy way and to understand where it came from. Now he could even tell about it on TV.
See you, dear Gekko: there are just beautiful things on TV. There are only phases in which you have to look for it a little harder. And, to be honest: in that respect you have chosen a challenging moment for your fatal cherry.