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Travel dilemma
What makes a trip worthwhile? Is it the sightseeing? Discovering new flavors? Shopping? Relaxing? There’s no single right answer. Traveling is an experience shaped by expectations, budget, time constraints, and unexpected events along the way. For many of us, traveling can mean discovering new places, trying local food, meeting new people, and accumulating lots of…
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How to regain the power to change society
We live in a time when we have more opportunities, information, and comfort than ever before. Yet, more and more people feel tired, dissatisfied, or powerless. We have access to technology, travel, education, and entertainment, but at the same time, we face problems that affect our everyday lives, from mental health and social isolation to…
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Let’s think about it
There is a question I have been asked more times than I can count: “What is the point of philosophy?” And I have always given the same answer: it is to think. To think about things further away than the tip of your nose. To see beyond the immediate, beyond the urgent, beyond the present…
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Why the Most Important Part of a Journey Is Never the Destination
There is something extraordinary about waking up in a place you have never been before. A new shore, a new horizon, a new story. Sometimes, all it takes is a single glance at the sea for a person to realize how many worlds exist beyond their everyday routine. Perhaps that is why some journeys stay…
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A colorcoaster with a dominance of white and blue
136 km from Warsaw (the number according to Google Maps), down in eastern Poland, there is a city called Puławy. There is nothing particularly unusual about the city, it’s not very big, although located on the biggest Polish river, Vistula (Polish: Wisła). It’s pretty, neat, and very green, as are many such small cities in…
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“I never got to see him enjoy life as is”
“I never got to see Italy in summertime, I never got to hike on that mountain, I never got to be him” the promises that you make to yourself that will be put into work when you have money or time to do all of them. There will be a time that you will have…
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In your twenties, go home
What do people dream of after finishing high school or university? For many, the answer is: freedom. To see the world. Do something completely unknown. But there is something we tend to forget about. At some point, you will wake up from this dream, which often means going back to your country. What happens then?…
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When the sky forgets
Since the beginning, humanity has searched to understand what it sees above itself. Before telescopes, before maps, even before words, there was simply the emptiness of the sky. The stars, tiny yet infinite, seemed to form a sort of language. The first humans wanted to decipher it: they connected the points, told stories, invented figures.…
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Let’s Have a Real Talk…
Sometimes it feels to me that a first impression doesn’t happen when we meet someone — but much earlier, somewhere deep within us. As if every new person arrives into a story that’s already been written, and we simply assign them a role. And just when you think you’ve met them — you realize you’ve…
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Why I hate reading out loud
Reading out loud seems simple for many people. However, for some dyslexic individuals, it is a difficult task. Personally, it is something I try to avoid at all costs. It is a moment of strong pressure, because immediately, you think of the worst. You imagine scenarios: if you make a mistake, how others might react,…
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Stone Bridge: Walking Through Skopje’s Layers
As an architect interested in cultural heritage and urban identity, the way I try to understand a city often follows certain steps. While volunteering in Skopje, I used the same approach to get to know the city. The first step is to experience the city on foot: observing how streets connect, where public spaces are…
