05 júla, 2014

#EmIsHappy

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Presne (alebo skôr približne) pred 100 dňami som sa rozhodla zapojiť do jednej výzvy, ktorú som našla, ako inak, medzi blogmi.
100 happy days - to je jej názov. V podstate ide o to či dokážete byť šťastní 100 dní za sebou. Vyplníte jednoduchý formulár, priradíte si vlastný hashtag a počas 100 dní prispievate na internet príspevkami. Príspevky v podobe fotografií, pesničiek alebo všetkého možného čo vás v ten-ktorý deň urobilo šťastnými. 
Nejde ani tak o dokazovanie niekomu inému alebo samým sebe či dokážete byť šťastný, ide skôr o zamýšľanie sa nad každodennými radosťami, ktoré si bežne neuvedomujeme, čo vás v konečnom dôsledku určite urobí šťastnejšími.


Nie som si ani istá či som dodržala presne všetkých 100 dní. Mohla som sa pomýliť. Viem, že som nepridala príspevok každý deň, no potom som ich dodala dodatočne. Niekedy nebol prístup na internet, niekedy som bola odcestovaná, no  každý deň som sa minimálne na 3 minúty zamyslela, čo ma v ten deň spravilo šťastnou. Niekedy bolo milión vecí, ktoré by som v daný deň zahrnula do príspevku, inokedy to boli maličkosti - jednoducho jedlo, kniha, zmena účesu, nové topánky alebo niečo podobné. Challenge prišla skutočne vtedy, keď som nemala dobrú náladu alebo som celý deň strávila v izbe učením sa. Vtedy človek musí rozmýšľať či ho niečo spravilo šťastným. A vtedy začneme aj uvažovať ako môžeme v skutočnosti definovať šťastie. Je to niečo, čo ma rozosmeje? Niečo, čo ma teší? Niekto, kto ma počúva?
Bolo zaujímavé sledovať samú seba a uvedomovať si, že som v podstate veľmi šťastný človek a vždy som aj bola, len som sa nad tým každý deň nezamýšľala a niekedy som nechala negatívne veci, aby pohltili tie pozitívne, lebo v daný moment som si neuvedomovala, že aj v pochmúrnych časoch sa vždy nájde niečo, čo ma teší a pre čo by som mala byť šťastná.
Tento projekt bol veľmi zaujímavý, bavilo ma to. Nemôžem povedať, že by som bola šťastnejšia než predtým, len som si svojho šťastia viac vedomá. Možno aj preto, lebo väčšina výzvy prebiehala počas môjho najkrajšieho životného obdobia, keď som sa v správnom čase ocitla na správnom mieste s tými najsprávnejšími ľuďmi.

Určite to vyskúšajte!


A nezabudnite, všetci sme šťastný istým spôsobom, len niekedy chvíľu trvá, kým nájdeme akým.

S láskou, Em
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Exactly (or rather approximately) 100 days ago I decided to get involved in one challenge that I found, of course, in one blog.
100 Happy Days - that's the name of it. Basically - can you be happy 100 days in a row? You just fill in a simple form, assign your own hashtag and post things that make you happy for 100 days on the Internet. Posts can be in the form of photos, songs or all sorts of things, which made ​​your day a little happier. 
It is not so much about proving to someone or to yourself whether you can be happy or no, it is more of a reflection on the everyday joys that you normally do not realize.

I'm not even sure if I completed all 100 days. I could make a mistake. I know I haven´t added post every day, but then I added them later. Sometimes I didn´t have access to the Internet, sometimes I was not at home, but every day I spent at least three minutes thinking what made me happy that day. Sometimes it was a million things I would include in my posts, other times it was the little things - just food, books, change of hairstyle, new shoes or something. Real challenge actually started when I was not in a good mood ot I spent all day in my room studying. Then One has to think about whether something made him happy or no. And then we begin to think how we can actually define happiness. It's something that makes me laugh? Something that I enjoyed? Someone who listens to me? 
It was interesting to watch myself and realize that I am actually very happy person and I have always been one.Don´t let negative things to absorb those positive ones. Because even in bad times, there´s always something or someone you should be happy about.
This project was very interesting, I enjoyed it. I can not say that I am any happier than ever, I´m just more aware of my happiness. Perhaps because major part of the challenge took place during my most beautiful period of life when I found myself at the right time in the right place with right people. 

Just try it!

Remember, we all are happy in some way, but sometimes it takes a while to realize in which one.

Love, Em

24 júna, 2014

Dear Poland...

Dear Poland,

        it´s me, Em. I just want to thank you for everything. It took me just couple of days to fell in love with you. You are probably the longest relationship I´m ever gonna have with someone. You are for sure the nicest one. Since I first got off the train untill my final goodbye, you were my dearest friend, supportive, helpful, always nice to me, never judgemental.
        It was such a pleasure to get to know you a little bit better. Thank you for all the beautiful places I had chance to visit, for all people I had chance to meet, for all the strong friendships I´ve made. All this just because of you. You made me a better person. I just want to let you know, that you changed me in so many ways, you can not even imagine. I appreciate it and I´m grateful for it. Wish I didn´t have to write this letter, but I feel like It´s about time to say goodbye. Not for a long time, though. I will always visit you. I´m looking forward to see more of you, to meet new people and to see again the ones I´ve already met here and to finaly learn the magical language of yours.
        Am I making a big deal out of this? Maybe. But I can´t leave without saying goodbye to you. I don´t want to break up with you, I don´t even want to say any last words to you, so I´m just going to say: See ya. As I used to say every day to my erasmus friends. Because I was sure I´m gonna see them again the next day. I might not see you the next day in this case, but I´m sure as hell that I´m gonna see you in the future. So please, don´t forget me. I will miss you, but I will never forget you. Remember me as the Slovakian girl with big green eyes and hair always up in a messy bun, the burping one, the one that walks really fast. The one that was making jokes about your language, but wanted to learn it anyway - and kind of failed in this ;) I will remember you as a feeling. As a crazy place I got pretty drunk couple of times, as a place I´ve learned so much and laughed so hard I started to make weird noises.
I will remember you as something I can´t describe, but I can feel it.

     Because Poland is not just another country I visited. Poland is people. People I´ve learned to love. Poland is every single one of YOU - Erasmus 2014/University of Silesia

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                                                                                                                              Love always, Em