Role models are a good thing to have, because they can inspire us to aim for goals and achieve ambitions which we think are beyond ourselves. That goal or ambition might be to gain a higher degree, to learn to be an airline pilot or even to become a world class DJ.

Most of us have role models whom we admire. The reasons why they are our role models can be different, but the admiration they inspire, what they represent to us, is what attracts us. They have a quality, attitude or ability, that we wish we had ourselves, and they inspire us to reach beyond ourselves. It’s good to have these dreams and ambitions and to have people who inspire you to go for it!

“An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.” – Friedrich Engels

Who’s your role model? You know, this always starts at the kindergarten. The teachers ask little students who their role model is. Most of them say police officer, fire fighter, or some cartoon characters, mostly heroic people. When I was in kindergarten, I never answered for that question. I had nothing on my mind to answer. Who is my role model? I really don’t think I’ve had any role models until recently, so I questioned myself again and again and again, and I have waited for a real role model…

It never came…

“What’s the outside world like? It’s beautiful, sunny, full of light, air… sweet words, beautiful people… There’s everything outside. But this?… this is a boring place and I can’t take it anymore. I want to escape. But how?… I’ve been hitting the walls of my tiny room for a long time, but all for nothing… I am forced to stay here for a little longer. Three months, almost ninety days… And I’ve been planning to escape for such a long time… too bad that my plans are useless.”

Who do you think that is? A thief that broke into the National Bank? The prime-minister caught with it’s hands in the public money? Someone convicted for a murder?
The answer is no to all of the above questions. Those were my thoughts from back when I was in my mother’s belly. You know… I have a very good memory.
In high school, at the biology classes, I used to tell stories about how I felt in my mother’s belly.

I think that we all agree that whoever would say such things is both a liar and a fool. Nobody can have such “old” memories. And even if we could remember how it was back then, what memories would they be? I mean, how can a baby know what’s on the outside world? And what reasons would he have to think that it would be better for him if he was there instead of his mother’s belly? Yes, outside there’s sun, air, and there are sweet words… only that his organism isn’t ready for such an adventure. His time will come…

Many kids are fascinated by the grown-up universe.
When a kid starts smoking he believes that this way he’ll become more interesting in the eyes of his friends, and more attractive for the girls. It doesn’t matter that smoking destroys his body, it doesn’t matter that as the years pass he’ll regret that he started smoking; all that matters for him is that he is trendy and cool.
As the time passes he’ll realize that all his heroism was for nothing… The girls who were impressed proved to be the cheapest friends, and so his struggle was in vain. He will regret it, but time doesn’t come back.

There are lots of magazines and movies that are not recommended for minors. But they are constantly looking for them, and when they get their hands on them they devour them like cannibals. Why? Because they’re on a constant search for powerfull experiences.

I lived that fascination myself a few years back,

Even hearts became of metal…

Because we use so much technology to make our lives easier, these days, instead of doing that, the machines are making our lives harder, even if we don’t realize it.

The number of machines has grown, but our minds are more astray. Indirectly, the machines have started to control our lives, because we rely on them for a very large number of activities.

With all this cold technology surrounding us, our conscience isn’t cultivated anymore. At least not at the same degree that it was 150 years ago for example. Back then people used to work with animals and were more merciful, they had warmer hearts. If one would have loaded too much weight onto his animal, the poor creature would have bent under the pressure and the man would have felt mercy.

These days it’s a completely different story. When something breaks down, we don’t bother too much, we know that it can be fixed; and if it can’t be fixed it ends up being thrown away and nobody cares about that. We just buy a new one and pretend that everything is okay.

Well, not everything is okay, since our hearts are used less and less with the passing of time. This way, today’s society cultivates selfishness and individuality. Nobody thinks of helping other people. And even though not all selfishness is bad, the selfishness that today’s world is encouraging is not justified.

Altough we can’t throw away or stop using all the tech stuff that is said to make our lives easier, there are a quite a few things that we can do to prevent us from falling too deep in the selfishness trap.

• Respond to your friends e-mails and calls more quicly.
• Commit one selfless act every day. A selfless act is acting to benefit others at the cost of your own wants and needs. Don’t be scared, it will actually help you way more than it helps them.
• Enroll in a volunteering service. People who do charitable work suffer less

“Noise lets us ignore our most difficult struggle and our most precious possesion: our true and only selves”

In today’s world, almost everything we use is noisy. Even my keyboard, as I type this, makes a lot of noise.
We’ve killed the silence of the nature with our noises, we’ve changed and ruined it using modern technology.

Today we’re all used to live in a world of noise. Many young people listen to loud music while they are reading. The noise is either an expression for their suppressed psyche or the noise itself is beginning to breed an agitated spirit, a stressed being.

It is said that an image is worth a thousand words… I would say that a moment of peace is worth millions of dollars.

But don’t despair, if you don’t have that kind of money to build a soundproof-mansion, there are a few simple things that you can do in order to help create a more peaceful world (peaceful in terms of silence):

1. When you’re in the car, don’t immediately reach for the radio. I know it’s tempting, but don’t do it. Instead, take advantage of the quiet time and use it as a time of peace, use it to think about your life, ask yourself “am I a better person today than I was yesterday?”
2. Try not to speak too loud. Apart from bothering other people, speaking loudly diminishes the connection between your mind and your body. So the chances that you end up talking nonsense skyrocket.
3. Don’t abuse talking. Before you start talking, ask yourself a simple question: “is it necessary?”. When something is necessary to say, further questions will arise (how to say it, when to say it, etc…). “Speak only if you can improve the silence.”

Thank you for the visit!

Well… that’s all for the intro. Maybe you were expecting a presentation of the blog’s purpose, maybe a little something about me, but there’s time for everything.

So again, thank you for visiting and enjoy your stay!