My grandson is 13 and entering a difficult period of adolescence—the time when one’s attitude toward life is ultimately shaped. When I gave him a business card, an instructive dialogue about it unfolded:
—Look, the composition is skewed, the lettering is inaccurate, the margin is too wide, and there is empty space. It could have been done better...
—Do you really see no advantages in it?
—Well, no, it looks quite good: the letters have a nice shape, the whole thing is legible, it contains basic information, functions and addresses, and it is decorated with Bolesławiec’s colorful coat of arms. But it could have been even nicer.
Modern Polish reality is reflected in this conversation as if in a distorting mirror. One attitude is total criticism—fault-finding, condemnation and aggression toward everything and everyone. The other attitude is a reflective view of changes in objectivity: noticing the good sides of life and positive values. After all, every medal has two sides. And one final observation: what is acceptable in a teenager can be irritating and provoke opposition when expressed in uncontrolled verbal outbursts by adults. It is worth remembering.