I was sitting in the plane and wondering whether my boyfriend is the right guy. What if he leads a double life? What if he simply cannot be faithful and honest?

Or maybe this is not really the point? Maybe I should not worry whether he is loyal and honest, but just take him the way he is and enjoy whatever he is willing to give? ... And just forget about all the rest?

But then you go into a relationship that has no future.

But maybe that is just the way with relationships. Maybe they never have any future at all.

I thought I should forget about anything that happened in the past and stop thinking about what might happen in the future. Live on the moment and be ready that at any time the relationship may end.

James Bond of love. 007 come in and jump in the abyss of loneliness.

Be in love a humble monk, grateful for what you get and do not ask for more. Be humble monk, ready to accept the fact that your future may die at any moment - and then you take your humble bundle without a word of complaint and walk on. Into the wastelands of life, leading to nowhere.
Is this love ?..

I have read studies done in Poland, which showed that every second man and every third woman cheats on her husband or wife. More than half of marriages end in divorce. When you look at the happy faces of newly-weds, they are full of hope and goodwill. How is it possible that after some time the same people turn into enemies?

Why can you count happy relationships on the fingers of one hand?
Why does love seem to be a huge hope that sooner or later appears to be nothing but a lie?...

After writing the book "In the Jungle of Life" many people asked me why I did not include in it a chapter about love. At that time it seemed to me that the subject of love is too large and too complex to put it into one chapter. Then one day I thought I might write a book on the subject. My editor, Tomasz Raczek, was very happy and said:

- This is a great idea! Write, write as soon as possible!

But even though the material for the book was almost ready, I did not start writing it. I had a feeling I was still missing something important. The book I had in my mind was travelling with me on a number of exotic travels. I was taking notes for the book on the African savannah. in the stone realm of Angkor Vat, on the India’s congested streets, in the Amazon jungle, on the Sahara desert and the Mongolian steppe. I had a feeling there was something important for me to discover, and only I find out what it is and understand it, the book could become complete and would make sense.

This moment occurred a few years later, some time after they met the African Headhunter. Suddenly, I found the missing element.

Suddenly I understood why people are not happy in their relationships. Why they cheat, why they stay in unhappy marriages and why the marriage does not answer their hopes and wishes.

After I returned from an expedition to Thailand and Cambodia, on Thursday the 1st of May, I started to write this book. I finished writing exactly forty days later, on the day before my birthday.

Writing was a remarkable experience, because as soon as on the first day I discovered that I had had the entire book ready in my mind. All I needed to do was to sit down to my computer, focus and the pages were just writing themselves. Every day I was looking forward to the moment I will be able to sit down and resume writing. A day without writing a few good pages, I considered lost. During those forty days it happened only once - when I went to Gdansk to visit my sister.

All the stories told in this book are true. All the quoted conversations really did happen. I changed only the names of my heroes, because I suppose some of them would not like to be easily recognized.

Love is beautiful. For anyone who has a beautiful soul.

Mombasa - Dar es Salaam - New Delhi - Ulan Bator - Algiers - Bogota - Bangkok - Angkor Vat 2007/2008

Excerpt from the book "In the Jungle of Love", published by Latarnik 2008