Every person has to summarize his or her life once in a while. This action is generally associated with elderly people, but, in my opinion, the earlier you start to do it and the more often you do it, the better you understand who you are, and what you have to do next. Th...
From the very beginning of the music industry its principles were unchanged. Yes, the storage mediums changed: from vinyl to audio-cassettes, from audio-cassettes to compact-discs. But the general principle remained the same: musicians signed a contract with a record labe...
British writer C.S. Lewis said that friendship is something that life does not need and something without which life is not needed. One can hardly argue with a statement like that; somebody may say that this role is generally supposed to be played by romantic love, but is...
I have always been baffled by the attitude towards drugs and drug-addiction that is considered to be almost unanimous. According to it, drug-addicts are miserable sick people who are not guilty of their present position and should be treated with sympathy and care, while ...
What may serve as a better and more universal symbol of civilization in general and Western civilization in particular, if not the car? The car, being an individual means of transportation, reflects the individualistic nature of the West better than anything else.
Here and there we can hear the question – what do you prefer, the Internet or books? The answers vary – the proponents of books usually tend to say that the Internet destroys the quality of knowledge and reading culture, that no website will ever be able to replace a ...
A lot is said on the importance of higher education, on its overall low quality and how much it influences the life of those who receive it. In my opinion, based on my own experience, the main impact it has on a person’s life is the necessity to spend several years on t...
Very often you may hear people saying how much they love mountains, the scenery there, the power of sheer cliffs, the purity of air and so on and so forth. Very often, however, it turns out that they love mountains “in absentia”, by default, because one is supposed to...
