As always, I woke up at 8:50 to the alarm set on my iPhone, habitually turned the phone face down, and went to the bathroom.
The small attic room of the wooden house, used as a bathroom, greeted me with the invigorating coolness caused by the absence of heaters.
In the corner, instead of the planned bidet, a comfortably gurgling moonshine still had settled on a red stool. The intoxicating, sweet and sour smell of moonshine hung in the air. Crystal-clear tears of 70-degree cheerful liquid were decisively flowing through a reinforced tube into a five-liter bottle that had once contained Agusha children’s drinking water.
I glanced at my reflection, which dissolved in the sensually curved bend of the heat exchanger coil. There it is, an invention, I thought: the genius of technical thought and the perfection of industrial design created by my father-in-law, an experienced aircraft flight engineer.
You could feel the hand of a master in the apparatus. All the adjoining parts of the coil were fitted precisely to one another, the body of the apparatus was carefully wrapped in a neat foam-plastic coat, and the heating element with electronic sensors looked like an integral part of the entire construction.
Apart from its aesthetic appearance, the apparatus had an incredible capacity for producing a high-quality drink, which was also thanks to my father-in-law. “What looks good works well,” I remembered the famous phrase by Steve Jobs.
If only all the devices around us could give us the same aesthetic pleasure as my father-in-law’s moonshine still. Perhaps the world around us would change as well. After all, to make something beautiful, however you look at it, you need to truly love what you do, be passionate about it, and give yourself completely to the creation of your mind.
01.04.2023
