I'm an old/new user of Steem. I signed up about month ago, but as I was finishing my bachelor thesis I didn't really have time to post anything. I only read some posts and enjoyed the growing community.
I decided to write the thesis in English which is not my native language. But I spent a year at high school in the US so that would be just easy I thought. I was quite surprised that it wasn't that easy after all, actually it was rather difficult. I had a very hard time putting together some meaningful sentences. I lost my "best words" (\cite{Mr. Trump}) somewhere over the years :). Then I wondered how that happened. Even though I passively use English almost every day, I hardly ever write anything longer than just a few sentences. I was pretty upset and decided that I need to do something about it. That's why I decided to start writing posts here on Steem.
I wasn't able to come up with any philosophical or technically enough interesting topic to share with you guys. So I decided to start off with a short introduction about me, about things I'm interested in and see if the reactions will inspire me towards the next post.
This is me:
I'm an architect. Actually I'm not, because I don't practice it, but I finished the whole 5 years of studying architecture and I'm still a huge propagator of good living. I find architecture to be very important, but as I was in second half of my studies I really started to wonder if it was the right thing for me. It was an extremely difficult decision, but I had to admit to myself that I would be unhappy if I were an architect. So I tried to come up with what else could interest me. I won't bother you with the details, the result has been computer science. I always liked math, puzzles, riddles etc. and my boyfriend who studied computer science himself uncovered to me that it isn't only for the nerdy teenagers and crazy programmers. But I was still unsure if I would be able to catch up with other students and also I was scared about my age. I was very concerned that I was too old to start new studies.
This obviously leads towards the question of the purpose of life. What should I do in my life? I kind of believe that there is no general purpose of life, but we people have to keep creating ones in order not to get crazy. So I believe that the purpose of life that will keep me the happiest for the longest time is self improvement, aiming for leaving the world a little bit better place than before, keeping healthy and working relationships and curiosity and ability to feel wonder and love.
I'm a very sensitive person - not in the sense that I can't stand rough situations - but I'm very good at enjoying beautiful moments in my life. I find it to be one of my strength, and it also enables me not to need too much because I can be enjoying myself from the small beauties that everyday life offers.
The purpose of life, how to live and be happy is very important. Even though the level of happiness is maybe partly wired, we can aim to the top of our capacity. Of course it doesn't mean that we should be happy all the time but we should feel some overall satisfaction with our lives.
After all I decided that studying computer science even that late will keep me happy the most and enrolled into the studies with my much younger schoolmates. So I'm still studying now. This also means that I'm not very wealthy which brings me to the next topic I would like to briefly discuss.
Over the last years I realized how little one needs to live even a very comfortable life (with warm place to sleep in, good food to eat and sometimes buy something or travel a little bit). Of course this very much depends on the place and family one was born to. I was born and live in Prague (yes this beautiful city) and my family is not wealthy but it can support me. I was very lucky. My point is that I always get surprised by how much people obsess about money and having things and travelling to some distant places only to show the pictures around and how even though they have quite a lot of money and live great lives still feel that it isn't enough. Consumerism is laziness and it hurts people and our planet. I also have problems with it. I consume the internet and I know it's an issue. That's also another reason why I decided to start writing posts, so that I would change from the passive consumer to an active contributor.
That will be all for today. I'm looking forward to see some reactions to the topics. And if you spot some mistakes, please let me know, so I can correct them.
