In My Not-So-Humble Opinion

During an event I attended recently, I spoke to a student with great ambitions, and a company of his own.Really liked the kid,just thought he lacks experience to lead a proper business.When I told him what I think the holes are in his products,well, he kinda became pale and left me to go look for a chair to sit in.Soon after, he left the event. I'm not sure if I did him a favor or killed his dreams, but one way or the other it sure was an experience for him :).Hopefully he learned something from our conversation cause if he did not,he will have to learn from his own mistakes. My point in this text is that I think that there are things kids should be taught in high school (or not later than college) as a lot of stuff around us today promise us a future world where talk is not cheap and money is easy to get. A fast buck for nothing. That will NOT happen. To all high school kids, college students, and everyone that finds any single one from the following 11 ...

All things in this life are relative.All things are limited in time and space, and all that we own or we hope to own is either going to vanish, or we're going to lose it, displace it, forget that we ever had it or wanted it so,so badly.This somehow diminishes the very value of things doesn't it? Somehow, all those shiny little trinkets in life, all those glamorous lives we are constantly poisoned with on TV, all of our carnal desires and political horn-bumpings, it is all going to pass, and if you would strip a man of all of those layers of material and information and dirt, what would you have? What would that tiny little man be left with at the end? His dignity and his humanity.Yes,dignity and humanity. Always remember one thing, we are all human after all, and if someone would take everything from you, they can never take away your dignity. And how true is this? Very true. You see, funny thing how something as feminine and as simple as a red lipstick comes into this...

I said it many times before, talent is like Iron ore or raw steel. By its natural definition, Iron is a pile of minerals and rocks, and it may be tough, it may be rare, it may even be beautiful, but still, it is just a simple rock. Iron needs shaping, good steel is made by heating the Iron up to the point of melting, and then cooling it with cold water. And even then, as that is not enough, physical pressure is added to reinforce its characteristics.Final touch is given by masters that work their magic, by giving the final shape to the steel and turning the initial Iron rock into e.g. a beautiful, yet deadly Japanese katana. So, you see, it takes a lot of time, a lot of effort, and master's hands to start with the Iron rock and finish with the sharpest sword there ever was. Talent is no different. Raw talent is nothing (and never was anything) without firm discipline, hard work, and if not by master's guidance, than, by all means, it has to be led by either rich imagin...

Sadly enough, we live in a world where true friendship is hard to find. Whoever understands this, will keep their true friends (whoever has them), given that he/she has character enough to keep and respect that friendship more then his/hers own interests and satisfactions. Since I mentioned it, respect itself, is another animal we do not see often these days. And if we do see it, we act as if we saw Bigfoot..... and true friends that respect each other should not be Bigfoots they should be alley cats, everyday creatures that you see on the street, in the park, and that you expect to be there as they should. Really what the fuck is going on around us? I mean, since when is being honest a handicap? Since when is being good to someone (friend or anyone for that matter) rewarded with bullshit? Where did humanity make a wrong turn? Rather often I hear things like "being a good person today is similar to being dumb". True story. I even said it once or twice myself, when I ...

.... everybody's fine. Everybody's fine. Not so long ago I was a part of a bigger group of people, a group with who I shared many things.Some of them liked me, some of them hated me.Some of them couldn't stand the sight of me, some of them couldn't stand the idea that they would not see me on daily basis.Things happened, things were happening, things that I do not really want to remember, but I can't do much about it (having this elephant memory of mine). Lines were crossed, that should not be crossed, and I tend to keep those lines as they are. Those lines were and still are one of my life's principles, things that feel and have always felt right to me. Things that make me who I am. Crossing those lines one too many times was an action to witch I reacted, and I left that group of people. The departure was not pretty. It was messy just as all relationship endings are.If it's not messy than probably there was no real relationship there.It left a bad tast...

Trust is not something you get for free.Trust is something you earn. It is a highly complex concept that depends on many, many things but mostly experience, bad or good.There is a big role played by personal attitude, assessment of the situation, so at the end you decide if you should trust someone or not, but, the way I see it our personal experiences have the biggest say in it. Good thing about trust is that once you get it, you get close to the person who trusts you.Once you trust someone, you get close to the person you trust. Being close to other people is a good thing. Bad thing is, once you give it, you get opened (would not want to use the word vulnerable, but, YES vulnerable too) to other people that got your trust.Once you earn someone's trust you get access to their personal stuff that other people do not have.Sooo......being close to other people, sucks???  From this we can deduce a simple dumb truth: trust no one, you'll be alone, trust everyone y...

If it's broken, it's broken. That's what I think at least. I mean you can fix it (if you can't, Chris Martin will surely try, he did say so), but even if it starts working/functioning/showing signs of life, it will never be the same.And what's "it"? Well.....anything :).E.g. a vase.You brake it, you buy some glue, you glue it up/fix it, fill it with water, and it now looks almost the same (lets say we accept "almost" as satisfactory) as you can obviously see the cracks, it has almost the same shape, and it almost gets the job done. Except that it does not, since here and there you get a small water leakage, and those poor plants kept in the vase need that water.But hey, "almost the same as before breaking" is good, right? Yes, it is, however it is not enough.It happens that, in time, the breaking event comes back to haunt you, the glue loosens up, you come back home, you find the vase either back to numerous scattered peaces or without...