One announcement that you might not have read or received in your "in box", is that Lionel Ladoire has stepped away from Ladoire and is pursuing another passion as a drummer.
So I want to take a moment, and ask everyone reading this to consider the "what ifs".
What if you hadn't become a butcher, baker or candlestick maker... what would you have been? I myself always fancied myself an architect. Anyone with access to my algebra grades thanks their own personal gods that this never happened. I went to high school with truly remarkable young men and women. And sneered and wondered why the best and the brightest hadn't gone off to Princeton, Harvard or Yale - because I surely would have - had I been one of the best and the brightest. It is all too easy to judge from a soft, safe and warm point of view - particularly if you weren't as blessed as others. And because you weren't so blessed, it is all the easier to be judgmental.
I think as watch fans, we suffer from our own presumed "ordinariness", and this, in turn makes us hoist unfair expectations onto the "extraordinariness" onto others. We presume a lot. And here's something to consider, I suspect that the CEO of Home Depot probably makes more than the CEO of Tissot - but it is not nearly as sexy, is it?
But if we are all honest with ourselves, let's face some certain facts - it is all too easy to be judgmental when you are not the artist, when you are not the creator. When you were not similarly blessed.
So, Lionel, I wish you unsurpassed happiness and success. While selfishly I wish you would come back and make watches, PLEASE - drum like the talented artist that you are. And if/when you decide to come back and make watches - we will be waiting for you.
So I want to take a moment, and ask everyone reading this to consider the "what ifs".
What if you hadn't become a butcher, baker or candlestick maker... what would you have been? I myself always fancied myself an architect. Anyone with access to my algebra grades thanks their own personal gods that this never happened. I went to high school with truly remarkable young men and women. And sneered and wondered why the best and the brightest hadn't gone off to Princeton, Harvard or Yale - because I surely would have - had I been one of the best and the brightest. It is all too easy to judge from a soft, safe and warm point of view - particularly if you weren't as blessed as others. And because you weren't so blessed, it is all the easier to be judgmental.
I think as watch fans, we suffer from our own presumed "ordinariness", and this, in turn makes us hoist unfair expectations onto the "extraordinariness" onto others. We presume a lot. And here's something to consider, I suspect that the CEO of Home Depot probably makes more than the CEO of Tissot - but it is not nearly as sexy, is it?
But if we are all honest with ourselves, let's face some certain facts - it is all too easy to be judgmental when you are not the artist, when you are not the creator. When you were not similarly blessed.
So, Lionel, I wish you unsurpassed happiness and success. While selfishly I wish you would come back and make watches, PLEASE - drum like the talented artist that you are. And if/when you decide to come back and make watches - we will be waiting for you.
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