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  • 23 references 17 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Polish; learning Dutch
  • 34, Male
  • Member since 2012
  • Observing and thinking a lot.
  • A bit of Cultural Studies, a bit of Design Academy, a bit...
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About Me

I live my life constantly discovering and getting easily amazed by what surrounds me. Every experience is new and no matter what kind of, I think it is there for a reason so I can learn more.

I´ve changed from ´Dolce & Gabana´ boy, stressed and caught in current society system, to a person who crave for a freedom and keeps folowing the path of love, compassion and understanding. Person who left material world behind, to look for what truly makes me happy.

Now I am trully happy and satisfied person. I love my life, I love nature. I love what is abstract and what goes beyond. I left my regular life, as I wanted to live my life, not just sustain it. Before I stop working for a year, I didn´t know that I used to live extremely stressfull life.

At this moment focusing on eating healthy, as it become really important for me, to treat my body in a best possible way. By healthy I mean avoiding processed food and eating possibly according to Traditional Chinese Medicine advices, like avoiding oranges in the winter, eating local and seasonal food.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I found the idea of Couchsufring very inspiring to visit new places and to meet new people. I can help some people by hosting them and share a stories of my life, at the same time gain unique stories of their own. Isn't that incredible?

Interests

Love to talk, philosophizing about things, that people walk by. Love photography, especially the one that is touching aesthetic part of my mind. Something unique, perhaps disgusting and ugly, gonna be far more interesting for me, then something simply beautiful. I love to observe people around, to learn behaviours, social patterns, psychological habits.

There is one sentence that keeps me in 'now mode':

"See what happens".

You never know about what possibility will appear on your way, and I trust there is thousands of possibilities, thinking through habit about few ones, somehow takes away those many you wouldn't think of, as you are focusing yourself only on the possibilities that are known to you. But to me, we cannot and shouldn't predict what will happen.

Food drives me crazy and I think this is one of the reason I am alive. I love preparing food, giving it a lot of love, and being thankfull to vegies and meat for all it's nutrition value and amazing taste. This is also the reason I used to dumpsterdive a lot. Right now I am not buying processed food at all, so at mine, fridge gonna be full of veggies, no plastic boxes - and trust me, I can make magic out of it.

  • photography
  • cooking
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • philosophy
  • psychology
  • art
  • food
  • traditional chinese medicine
  • observing

Music, Movies, and Books

What about movies I have recently seen LOVE by Gaspar Noé, and I love this director for his courage, his way of showing life from a very beautiful perspective. I love pictures and colors he plays with.

But what is more:

- Tampopo 1985,
- Breaking the waves 1996,
- Harold and Maude 1971,
- Brazil 1985,
- The American Astronaut 2001,
- 3-Iron 2004

And I am deeply in love with Black Mirror series. It's just simply amazing.

What about music, I have lost it for some time, to rediscover it with a lot of random electronic music nowadays. These days I used to listen to beautiful German Techno - Schwefelgelb. Got stuck with Kölsch, and some remixes of polish songs like Maanam - Chcę Ci Powiedzieć Coś (Old Spice Edit). I have realized that mostly music last with me for some time, describes my reality, and then vanishes, changing into something new. There is so much music to discover, to enjoy!

What about the books:

- Reality Transurfing by Vladim Zelnad - makes me thing a lot and realize a lot of things. I really appreciate ideas that author shares.

- Intuition. Its Powers ans Perils by David G. Myers - very interesting, study based, but not only.

- You can heal your life - Luise L. Hay - made me think a lot about my thoughts and how they create my life day to day.

I am really much more into books that keeps me motivated, keeps showing me new perspectives, teach me something about myself or let me explore myself more, I am not a fun of fantasy, si-fi. I am not a big fun of books that present some story or adventure, but get really into books that for example explain how does our body works, and how to make it a 'better place'. One of the books is The Microbiome Solution" by dr Chutkan. I also appreciate books by Michael Pollan.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

As I was traveling to school by train, I used to leave some messages on a train ticket for other travellers, at a time mostly encouraging them to start living a real life as it's not to late to leave a grey monotony. Wishing them to do something they were always dreaming about and spreading love. Sometimes I was observing them for a while, and after a 30 minutes I was leaving them message, about positive sides of them - once it was mother, whose was telling her daughter in very calmly way about the world surrounding us, about trees passing by. I wrote her that she must be amazing mom and I am glad I met her in a train.

Second thing I want to mention was dancing in the middle of the boardwalk in the evening, with my headphones and good music on. People were passing by, and I just felt like being on a great party, just dancing.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you how to cook very simple though amazing in taste dishes. I can share all the information I've collected so far about one of many healthy models of eating.

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Othar than that I can not teach, but rather talk about photography and the way I perceive pictures. That´s gonna be a great lesson for both of us.

If you will get me some henna I can make some tattoos, and on a way share what I have learned studying at Design Academy.

I can share a lot of stories out of my life.

I can share with you my time, and whatever the universe will ask to.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Whatever there is needed to be shared, will be shared.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belarus, Belgium, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Netherlands

Countries I’ve Lived In

Jersey, Netherlands, Poland, Spain

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