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Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Nothing can ever happen twice.
In consequence, the sorry fact is
that we arrive here improvised
and leave without the chance to practice.

Even if there is no one dumber,
if you're the planet's biggest dunce,
you can't repeat the class in summer:
this course is only offered once.

No day copies yesterday,
no two nights will teach what bliss is
in precisely the same way,
with precisely the same kisses.

One day, perhaps some idle tongue
mentions your name by accident:
I feel as if a rose were flung
into the room, all hue and scent.

The next day, though you're here with me,
I can't help looking at the clock:
A rose? A rose? What could that be?
Is it a flower or a rock?

Why do we treat the fleeting day
with so much needless fear and sorrow?
It's in its nature not to stay:
Today is always gone tomorrow.

With smiles and kisses, we prefer
to seek accord beneath our star,
although we're different (we concur)
just as two drops of water are.

by Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska

Interests

I don't use smart phones - both on a daily basis and when I travel.
(They not only are a threat for privacy, but also spoil all the fun of getting lost somewhere or having meaningful conversations with people... :)

I'm vegetarian, I don't drink alcohol.

• literature
• cycling
• hiking
• sociology
• hitchhiking
• budget travel
• lakes
• mountains
• forests
• trekking
• theatre
• vegetarianism
• mindfulness
• consciousness
• trees
• sunsets
• abandoned buildings
• sunrise
• tree climbing
• nature walks
• cereal fields
• tree-hugging
• continental philosophy

Music, Movies, and Books

Let's talk about them when we meet...

But I can give here quickly some names, just to indicate the direction:
BOOKS: Kafka, Huxley, Orwell, Bułhakow, Jansson, Zamiatin, Bauman, Tavares...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I will take this mysterious and incredible event to my grave;)

But, actually, I don't know if they will fit into one grave, there are so many of them!

What I Can Share with Hosts

Stories, singing, dancing and vegetarian food :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Armenia, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Georgia, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, Hungary, Poland, Serbia