Who am I when I’m lost? Ushuai, Argentina
Reading Time: 5 minutes How much do we know about ourselves? How many our lies do we believe in? We live in Woody Allen’s world, where solutions to all our problems and dilemmas are expected to be solved on
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Scalpel restores not only a life, but also common sense, Warsaw
Reading Time: 5 minutes DOING ethnographic research at thousands polish homes I got to know that one of the most often complaints is… work. Ideal work is a DREAM, at least “ good enough work” is the aim. Most
What other people think about you is not of your business
Reading Time: 2 minutes (Read with a pinch of salt…) – I know completely nothing about what you do, but apparently you achieved a great success. – No way! I just do well what I do. It’s not really
Things that I didn’t know about when falling from 4 thousand metres
Reading Time: 6 minutes You are my boss, but I am your leader. That was the first thing I heard during the briefing before trekking. It was my first trekking. Maybe not the first in my life, but definitely first
What I learned when I lost my vision (literally not metaphorically) Warsaw, Paris
Reading Time: 10 minutes I am in Paris. It was supposed to be a magical, romantic and enrapturing visit, but it’s not. I am too late for it to be romantic, too blind for it to be enrapturing, and
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
Reading Time: 7 minutes Truth. I’m a big fan of truth. The whole philosophy of my private and professional life is based on searching for, discovering, expressing myself and behaving in a truthful way.
Acceptance is like a smack in the face and I don’t want to turn the other cheek
Reading Time: 9 minutes Acceptance is humiliation. It’s like abone thrown to a dog by his master from the dinner table. It’s an excellent example of how we should not take all the psychological terms literally and get excites
Meditate. By your own way
Reading Time: 6 minutes I go for meditation retreats 1-2 times a year. Meditation is silence. It is a state of stillness. Just sitting, no movement, no scratching, no stretching out and no fidgeting. Meditation is nothing like pole dancing or
Control freak 2
Reading Time: 3 minutes One way ticket, funeral of control freak! Such a hardcore for me – no plans, no plan B, because no plan A. When I met travellers like this, I was always full of admiration and
Control freak 1
Reading Time: 3 minutes As any control freak I have been denying the fact that I am one for a long time. ME – I don’t control and definitely not obsessively. People are simply not as organised, thorough or
Loneliness, Warsaw and rest of the world
Reading Time: 11 minutes 100 years of loneliness Loneliness is a very ugly word. It brands you. It attacks you from two directions – if you ARE lonely, something’s wrong with you. And if you FEEL lonely, then something’s
Sometimes you have to follow the silence – not Lonely Planet, Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Reading Time: 7 minutes A place where the only sound is the rustling of big falling leaves, the hum of gentle waves and the flutter of bird wings. One that is so hard to reach that you start having