Being free, being truly free consists of not being bound by the opinions that others choose to display in regards to the decisions that one chooses to make on a daily, weekly, or lifetime basis.

In order to be free we have to be willing to think for ourselves, learn for our selves, and to live our lives as our real true selves. Being free is when you are able to stand up and speak in public spewing your beliefs not caring what anyone else will think of them.

Being free is when you are able to go against the grain, when you are able to make a left when everyone else is going right, and not worry about why everyone is talking about you, or looking at you in a manner that is unfavorable, and with faces that blatantly say that they don't approve of your choices.

One of the greatest challenges is being yourself in a world that's trying to make you like everyone else.

Interests

Bitcoin, futurology, digital photo and web art, new types of art, skiing, playing&discussing football, perfectionism, trains&airplanes, deviant people, Scandinavia, string theory, eternal beauty

• arts
• design
• beauty
• cooking
• skiing
• soccer
• economics
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Stalker and Solyaris by Andrei Tarkovsky, Smultronstället by Ingmar Bergman; The Dreamers by Bernardo Bertolucci

Musicians: Emika, iamamiwhoami, The xx, Björk, Muse, Röyksopp, Pink Floyd, Porcupine Tree, Gazpacho, Coldplay, Conjure One. See "full classification" at http://lj.rossia.org/users/waterfall/3962.html :)

Favourite poet — Joseph Brodsky. Writer — Ernest Hemingway.

Teach, Learn, Share

I prefer listening. I'd love to learn anything you have to offer, but especially the peculiar features of places you've been to/lived in, their history, things connected with cooking, web-design, global economics, future of the humanity and making any kind of art.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Japan, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Qatar, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation