Some Peculiar State

Admittedly there is a quite peculiar state I sometimes find myself in, when I'm smiling in order not to cry.

Nice to see Bent Van Looy showing the same emotion when asked about a news item that made him laugh or cry. He chooses the information that a lot of Belgian students from poor families do have either unhealthy food in their lunch box or nothing at all. He then begins to fancy that a lunch box in itself is  a very miserable object and does remember how he always preferred the unhealthy, more tasty stuff of his fellow students to whatever was in his own lunch box. Yet he concludes the image of this miserable lunch box being empty was even worse. And all the while this draws a smile on his face. I do understand...