CURRENT MISSION

Learning as much as I can and forgetting as little as possible

ABOUT ME

Hard thing to do...to know yourself and to be able to share that knowledge with others. I would write many things about myself...but even I cannot guarantee how accurate they are. I think each of us changes with every second passed, with every breath exhaled, with every word spoken, with every tear shed…with every thought that our mind births. Who I was when I started this description will be a little bit different compared to who I will be when I finish it.
From this point of view I am in a perpetual process of self discovery, self destruction and self reconstruction. From a more poetical perspective I see myself as a diver into the depths of my own being, an archeologist digging the ruins of my memory or a sculptor carving my thoughts.
Beyond the metaphysical perspective, during my life I’ve been through a lot of situations like all humans do. I’ve been a crazy child; I’ve been a lifeguard and bartender during high school; I’ve been making lots of friends and few enemies; I’ve been a long term volunteer in a couple of organizations; I’ve read a lot; I’ve been a game tester; I’ve been stupid and I still am; I’ve been part of a political marketing team; I’ve been in love and I’ve been hating after that; I’ve been doing some mistakes and some good things and I don’t know if I learned anything from all of this.

PHILOSOPHY

Dedicating myself to the simple act of existence...just floating on the waves of destiny.
Needless to say that for me a life lived according to a scenario is the worst method of suicide. I believe we as humans are quite limited in understanding the unpredictable. We are all somehow victims of the accidents, of the chances…we cannot control what is surrounding us and that is actually what makes us free. Trying to standardize our lives is useless because fortune is always full of unexpected surprises. I don’t think we should let ourselves float with no direction in the stormy ocean of destiny; I just think we should never anchor our dreams; we should never keep ourselves tied to some fixed ideals.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

visited 21 states (9.33%)Create your own visited map of The World or website vertaling duits?

Interests

Life itself

• dogs
• arts
• photography
• cooking
• beer
• survival
• drums
• cycling
• scuba diving
• snowboarding
• martial arts
• rock climbing
• swimming
• archery
• archeology
• geography
• history
• religion
• volunteering
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: K-pax, Revolver, Snatch, Brother sun,sister moon, Solaris, Moon, A.I., Twelve monkeys, Lock, stock and two smoking barrels, A clockwork orange, Rocknrolla, Natural born killers, Pulp fiction, Four rooms, Mongol, Fearless, Fight club, Nunta muta, 25th hour, Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, Full metal jacket, Blindness, Trainspotting, Inglorious Basterds, On the waterfront, Scarface, Once upon a time in America, Some like it hot, The godfather, Rane, The big Lebowsky, Reservoir dogs, Bruce almighty, The majestic, The big fish, The blue lagoon, Blood diamond, The departed, Casino, Goodfellas, The boondock saints, Smokin' aces, The island, Band of brothers...lots of cartoons(especially the old school ones)and many many others.

Music: it's a very long list...I have a broad musical horizon and I listen to metal, hardcore, rap, trip-hop, classical music and a little bit of jazz

Authors: Ernest Hemingway, Chuck Palahniuk, Marin Preda, F.M. Dostoyevsky, James Clavell, Jules Verne, Mircea Eliade, Karl May, Jean-Paul Sartre, Franz Kafka, George Orwell, Isaac Asimov, Romain Gary, Luke Rhinehart, Evgheni Zamiatin, Oscar Wilde, Simone de Beauvoir, Terry Pratchett, Curzio Malaparte, J.M. Barrie, Emil Cioran, H. P. Lovecraft, Mario Puzo, Albert Camus etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Seeing a wild bear in the Carpathians.
Discovering by accident an unearthed ancient skeleton on an archeological site in Bulgaria.
Feeling the force of the biggest waterfall in Europe (Austrian Alps).
Being ten meters close to a wild moose in the Norwegian mountains.
Jumping in the Black Sea from a tall cliff.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach: a little bit of history, a little bit of philosophy, very little mythology, how to grow plants, how to swim, how to ride a bike, Romanian language, how to open a beer bottle using available materials and some other things that aren't so useful...
I want to learn (too many things for one life): to cook well, French, local histories,archeology, religion, arts, play drums, new jokes, how to be as free as possible (if there is such a thing), photography, geography, Spanish, snowboarding, archery, climbing, philosophy, survival techniques, how to train a dog, martial arts…
I want to share: smiles and life stories.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Netherlands, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Norway, Romania, Taiwan, Thailand

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