12786 - Meta-joy

N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Evi Charitidou

Meta-joy
doesn’t exist
if you aren’t prepared
because at the time
of the other one’s joy
you don’t have the time
to enjoy it yourself
because you produce
your work
at that moment
and you don’t conceive
the importance
or value
of the effort
and when you see
the other one’s joy
it doesn’t come directly
and the other one
doesn’t enjoy it
as much as one would have
if one had seen
your meta-joy.