CURRENT MISSION

On the way to the Stars... Will you join me?

ABOUT ME

Advice: If you want to skip a lot of boring reading, just jump down to references from people I met, it can give you good hint who can I be. If you like reading or you have patience of steel, just go on:

When I am after good sleep and full of energy, I think I can move all mountains of the world, when I am sleepy and tired, I think all mountains of the world moved on me... nah, just kiding, I have smile for you almost everytime you meet me, because in smiles is hiden magic - try it and test it - smile on people on the street, a lot of them will smile back. And smiles are quite easy way how to make World a little bit better place to live (and they are for free, usually).

I used to be incredibly lazy and happy with computers and office and very limited world, but then I opened my eyes and realized, that there is all World waiting, offering me to experience as much as possible. Actually, it is not possible to think about all possibilities what is possible to do and experience out there, because it almost hurts and I want just to jump out and do everything and now! Ok, let´s calm down, I don´t want to scare you... yet. I simply love this World! Just never stop trying new things, getting new experience and mainly - have fun! Life is to short to not enjoying it.

I can say, that I never stop to surprise myself how big idealist, dreamer and naive guy I am, but there are enough of serious, hard-grounded-realistic and suspecting people, so, yeah, I am that asshole flying in the skies with happy smile on my face and not caring about big carriers (you mean like "aircraft carrier"?) and business succes... and I feel good, suckers! (don´t worry, this was not for you and no, I am not using drugs, I don´t need them to be happy)

Ok, back to serious self-describing. I am very grateful, that I got opportunity to live this Life, because I think it is worthy of living. Sometimes I just watch blue day sky or deep night sky full of stars or mountains or lakes or woods or my own prepared delicious food and my only though is: "I love this World and this Life!" And I am very grateful, that mankind haven´t destroyed all Nature yet, because that is something I can´t imagine to live without. Sometimes when I see those beautiful scenes of Nature, my eyes can´t take, my mind can´t understand and my heart can´t almost bear the beauty which is lying in front of me.

I already had some experience of life which learned me to really valuate this World, freedom, Life and that I can be happy - but who doesn´t have such experience? Maybe just some doesn´t realise that yet.

I want to give and leave something valuable to this World and to you - people, because there will never be enough of things making this World better place to live and people happy about living. (if you understood this sentence, I will buy you a beer, because I am not sure if I understand it)

I incredibly enjoy good meal (and I can eat everything, just cutting down on meat), good drink(s) (of water or tea, usually:D) and good company (doesn´t matter if it is ten people or one person), I like to have discussion about various and serious topics same as I like to chat about silly stuff, I am curious about everything and I can enjoy almost every activity and situation - important is to be happy, because That is actually what I think is one of most important things in Life - have some fun, then living is little bit easier. And what else is Life about then about beeing happy? And good advice my friend gave me - if you are not happy, change things in way you can be happy. Don´t worry, I am not all-the-time-stupid-smiling-idiot (I hope), I am normal guy (normal, wtf?) with my ups and downs, I just learned to appreciate and enjoy small and common things same as big ones.

If I haven´t already scared you by all this strange words, you have my respect and I hope I will met you. But for now, enought of empty words - let my acts and behaviour do the talking for me (should write this about two paragraphs earlier, right?). You can make your own opinion when you meet me!

Have fun and have a great day!

Richard

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I travel like Bear Grylls !
You are a hardcore traveler with a stomach of steel, and you'll eat a grub out of a tree long before you are even hungry. You can't remember the last time you showered, but you still look good.
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PHILOSOPHY

Don´t be afraid, you can manage whatever you want!
my own

"Let´s have some fun!"
Martin ConDoin of Crydee - Riftwar saga, Feist

Find something funny on everything you´re doing, because then everything you´re doing is fun.
my own (sounds quite stupid, huh? But it really works!)

"The right man on the wrong place can make all the difference in the World... so, wake up, Mr. Freeman."
Gman, Half Life 2

Even when my fingers freeze and hurt like hell, I am happy about that, because then I am sure, that I am still alive.
my own (found out on horse farm in Norway in December)

"People are really amazing beeings. In the Universe full of miracles, they invented boredom."
Death, Pratchett´s Discworld

Happiness is nothing external, it is state of mind. You are master of your mind = You are master of your Happiness!
many authors

"Life is like a Box of Chocolates... fuckin´ GOOD!"
first part from Forest Gump, I just upgraded it little bit:)

Dream Big, so you can wake up those, who are still sleeping. (if it doesn´t make sense to you, it is not my problem :D )
my own

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

With my heart of traveler and human being.

Spreading the word about CS all over:)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I already met several people from CS and surfed several couches. I have some good experience, few not that good experience, but mainly amazing and great experience! And every one of them was some kind of lesson of life. CS project changed and formed some of my world-opinions and I met some very good friends and much more, so... FRAKIN´ AWSOME EXPERIENCE!

Interests

Any kind of sport, swimming, cycling, hiking, martial arts, traveling, cooking, reading books, fencing (sword-fight), listening to music, playing chess and other board games (now it is Hnefatafl), archery, airsoft, carving spoons and forks from wood, LARPs, spending time with friends and much more... I have many interests and I don´t even know all of them yet, because I keep discovering new ones!

• horses
• arts
• books
• beauty
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• chocolate
• beer
• drinking
• flying
• comics
• board games
• chess
• reading
• traveling
• magic
• music
• cycling
• hiking
• sailing
• sports
• fencing
• boxing
• martial arts
• swimming
• archery
• business
• languages
• lakes
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Lord of the Rings (BIG thing for me), Garbage Warrior, Kymatica, Future by Design, Salmer fra kjøkkenet (Kitchen Stories), Crna Macka Beli Macor (Black Cat White Cat), Star Wars (only old movies), Ogniem i Mieczem (With Fire and Sword), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Esoteric Agenda, Harry Potters movies, Into the Wild, Stalker (old soviet genius movie), anime (Spirited Away, Full Metal panic,if you want to know what I saw, look here: http://www.anime-planet.com/users/Tirael/anime ), Red Dwarf, Stardust, Black Hawk Down, Fight Club, Merlin, Amelie from Montmartre, Brave Heart, Hero, Band of Brothers, City of Ember, Morozko, What dreams may come, Bridge to Terrabithia... and much more. Generally I like fantasy, sci-fi, military, some (really just exceptionally some) romantic, thoughtful, cartoons, comedies and so on, but I really don´t like horror movies.

Music: Almost every kind - metal, folk, indie, classic, soundtracks, traditional instruments, slow songs, fast songs - I am able to listen almost everything. To my favourite singers or groups or music belongs OST Baldurs Gate 1 a 2, OST from Transformers (awsome music!), Arkona, Two Steps from Hell, Indica (finnish rock:D), Adjagas (Sami group), Steve Jablonsky, Wardruna, Daniel Landa (Czech singer), The XX, Glen Hansard, Rafe Morris (australian singer), Nightwish (only with Tarja as singer), Epica, Wind Whistles, Vivaldi, balkan music... and much more.

Books: My favourite writers are Tolkien, Jostein Gaarder, Paulo Coelho, Pratchett, Feist, prof. Titlestad (historical books about vikings) and others. Favourite books: Lord of the Rings (BIG love for me till the end of my Life), Moneyless Man, Alchemist, Valkyries, Viking Norway (BIG book), Orange Girl, The Little Princ, Hobit, Silmarillion, Edda, Science and Akashic field, Moneyless Man, Witcher, Watchmen, The Peacefull Warriors Way, Beowulf, The greatest salesman in the World, and many others. I like to read fantasy, sci-fi, historical, prose, philosofical... and so on. And important one - I LOVE Garfield!
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One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I saw Nærefjord in Norway from Bakkanosi, one of best views ever!

I was working one year at (race) horse farm without actually knowing anything about horses before.

Overhelming feeling of euphoria when horses I took care of were winning races in Oslo.

Sailing on viking ship in Norway!

I didn´t scream when horse step on my foot... several times.

I was driving broken small tractor (with open cabin) pulled by car, in the night, rain and mist... I saw only rear lights of the car in front of me and anything else... but hell, it was great fun! Much better then any frakkin´ computer game! (well, maybe except Baldur´s Gate serie... and Mass Effect trilogy... :D )

Walk on ice over beautiful frozen fjord in Norway.

Crazy dancing night in Bergen on Balkan music - magical music, which forced me to dance as never before in my life!

Met a snake on Løvestakken in Bergen when both of us were finding our ways... just said "Hi" to each other and went on...

And much more :)

Teach, Learn, Share

Can teach you how to make awsome hot chocolate! (something like Garfields coffe: http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/1984/ga840529.gif )
And prety badass pancakes... wait a second... what about combination of hot chocolate AND pancakes! Am I genius or what?!
And maybe let you peek into my personal cookbook on my computer (it is not in english anyway, muhehehe!)

I want to learn how to survive in Nature for longer time then just couple of hours.

I want to meet some of native tribes and their shamans and learn from them as much as possible... about Life.

I want to learn (and taste:D) some foreign cuisine (to improve my cooking skills:) ). Then learn Norwegian and Russian as other languages. Or any other language:)

I want to learn play some musical instrument, because... well, if I should talk about music (and reproducing own music) and what does it mean for me and what I think about it from point of view as humans and from point of view of Universe, that would be way too long reading:D

And much more, I can´t even think about everything right now and we learn new things whole life, aren´t we?

What you should be aware of... arguing with a stubborn mule (you surely know some around you:D): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2Rdf0n_Lsg&feature=related

And one more thing I want to share with you - I realized unlimited potencial of human beings thanks to this (and some others) video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ymkoh-vKzM

And watch also this: http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=Vo0Cazxj_yc&vq=medium#t=34 - and realize one important thing - they are "only" humans - yes, it means SAME as YOU! So don´t be afraid - You really can achive and accomplish amazing things if you just want enough! All of us are somehow special, each of us in his/her own specific way and when together... even greater:)

And one warning - be careful with Balkan music - it is magic... as you once start dancing on it, you can´t stop till it stops playing or till you drop dead by exhausting. So far I was lucky enought to survive...

Btw. Did you know, that every rock, mountain and stone around (yes, even that small f*cker in your shoe) are here and same since creation of the World, which means all of them are about couple of hundrets thousands or millions years old. Imagine just those memories... and patience:) Quite overhelming, isn´t it? (and one more thing - actually absolutely the same with the water - we are drinking and using completely the same Water which was here at the creation of the World itself... that gave me hell of a respect in my point of View towards our World)

And I will gladly and happily learn from you whatever you are willing to share.

Well, otherwise, let´s see what can we teach, learn and share each other!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, France, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Russian Federation, Slovakia, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Czech Republic, Norway, Slovakia

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