In this section, I have a more informal and personal self-description: my values and origins, and selected autobiographical stories from childhood to adult life.
If I could use only a few adjectives to describe myself, I would choose these additional words: happy, sensitive, risky, decisive, lonely, concentrated, intense.
I was able to maintain relative fluency in3-4 languages at a time. Switching between languages is a skill on its own. Now I use 4-5 natural languages on a weekly basis. At various times, I was fluent in five in total:
Я тебе кохаю. Я тебя люблю. Te quiero. Ich liebe dich. I love you.
Being a Humanist, I am often asked, whether I believe in nothing.
I do. Nothing is a wonderful concept for me that symbolizes a state of mind from which one can appreciate (or not) everything else. I do believe in emptying my mind to give place for new ideas.
In life, I failed at almost everything, except a few important things, fortunately. These are a few random bits of curious information about my endeavors.
Let's start with the fact that the meaning of my current art signature is the opposite of my initial idea!
In general, I got what I wanted in life largely due to sheer luck, and I did not know we needed to wish for peace.
- Where do you find meaning in your life?
- What are you capable of achieving?
- When do you feel truly alive?
- What is your passion?
- Whom do you love?
- Who are you?
- And now?
People deserve to know where ideas originate, I believe. And, people should share their stories.
I lived in two parts of the World, in Europe and Americas, through two centuries and millennia. This is my past, and the last years are here: My Recent Life.
This is a timeline of my recent years, in continuation of My Areas and Timeline.
Origins × 18
Before 1980s - my family of origin, birthplace, and circumstances.
Changing cultures taught me that people like to check where you came from to reduce their own barrier from your strangeness, and I am all for it. I love people's stories, and here is mine.
Childhood × 10
About 1980s - my early years of life, till the onset of puberty.
Adolescence × 3
About 1990s - after puberty into early youth: my teenage years and early twenties.
Adolescence, growing up, is a transitional stage of physical and psychological development.
Youth × 1
About 2000s - more of my determining years, mid and late twenties into thirties - my life in the West.
