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Of all reflections I have on many things every day there’s this one, that occures to me the most often - just how fragile are we, as humans. It struck me again today, following these events:   Yesterday I was on a outdoor picnic for several hours, and it was really cold outside. No wonder I felt a little sick today, since yesterday I never bothered to clothe myself well enough not to be cold. Yet it didn’t interrupt me in making yesterday arrangements for today, and having to call it off due to poor well-being. And here I am. Thinking how our health and well-being are so easily deteriorated, yet how easily we forget about it as long as it doesn’t regard us. We make future plans, arrange our lives with no place left for unexpected obstacles, like sickness, and when it eventually ruins our plans it is like a bolt from the blue.  

This week, the reflection I had was caused by my weekend trip to Gdańsk. I went there with my parents, who once studied in Gdynia, and used to visit Gdańsk’s old town on regular basis - but it was 20 somenthing years ago. Since then the only place they’ve been to in Gdańsk was the Long Street and one or two close to it, because they never really planned on spending more time for visiting the old town, as they were so sure there’s nothing more worth seeing than the places they go to. Now, after so much time, they (and I) have spent more than an hour in this city’s old town and were simply charmed by its beauty, style, and atmosphere, especially the riverside, which they always thought was not worth seeing, because 25 years ago, from when they remembered it it wasn’t. This led me to a conclusion, how commonly such scheme can be seen - Judgement once set isn’t so easy to be change, which may cost you losing some many incredible aspects of life just because you once got a bad impressi...

Today I’ve been to my good old friend’s 18th birthday dinner. It was the first time we've seen each other since his last birthday, and it’s not anything bizarre for us - usually we only see once a year, because we both have hectic lifestyles and can’t match dates to meet some other time. However, when we finally meet, you couldn’t tell that we’ve not seen for this long - we immediately get along perfectly, find topics to talk through, things to do together. As if we’ve never stopped seeing each other. And today when I got home and finally sat down, I started to think about it.   The reflection I had on this was that true friendship can withstand even long periods of not seeing each other, because deep inside, nothing’s changed between you. I have also other friends my relations with whom confirm these thoughts, one of them left to other school, another to foreign country. With both of them I could not see for ages, and still act as if no time has passed at all since we’ve la...

The movie we watched shows perfectly, that the society nowadays is very easily influenced, and follower-type. In modern world, rarely you can find somebody that is creative, and makes their choices entirely on their own. We all want to fit to the present trend, and by doing so to be considered „cool”. That’s nothing different than just allowing the companies to manipulate us and trick us into buying new stuff every time the trend changes, or new product is released, just like the people from the town in the movie. To wrap up, as seen on example of neighborhood from „The Joneses”, our society is a society of followers, with very little people who stand out and have their own unique way of living

No, it doesn’t need to fit into rigid beauty concepts. Art should be an expression of what we feel and the way we feel it, and it shouldn’t be limited to only showing it in a pleasant way. Some things and feeling you just can’t express in a „beautiful” way, because the ideas don’t necessarily match the concept of beauty or it wouldn’t be the most authentic representation of them. Our creativity which is pure art which has not yet been formed into material representation, shouldn’t be bound by concepts like beauty, because that’s when it stops being creativity and starts to be an imitation of present works of art.

„A Real Man” - such phrase makes you think of somebody like Rambo, but it’s not quite actual, nowadays those Rambo-like qualities are not the ones most valued. A real man of XXI century is quite the opposite - caring, resourceful, polite, faithful respectful to other people, their work and views, yet ready to stand in defense of his values, or somebody in need without a single doubt. They prefer to solve problems smart, not with physical strength. Summing up, person you could call a real man now is just somebody you know you can count on in every situation, and you would know they would be there for you any time you needed them.

The Tree of Life, narrated by David Attenborough is a great clip showing in a nutshell the essence of theory of evolution. As the presenter explains the stages and history of life evolution on Earth, and the correlation between each group of organisms, we are presented with very pleasant animations, that complement the narration perfectly. In addition to that, I very appreciate that the presentation is strongly backed by scientific research done in recent years, and its credibility is unquestioned, thus being very reliable source of information for people.