Life is as beautiful as you allow yourself to see it

Last weekend I had the opportunity to go to the cinema with a group of new friends. The movie with a rather misleading title ‘Corpus Christi’ is a Polish candidate for an Oscar award and here I will relate some of my impressions about it. 20-year-old Daniel is conditionally released from Juvenal Detention Center and sent to work in a woodshed on the outskirts of Poland. Instead, he goes to a nearby village, pretending to be a priest. When a local old priest gets sick and has to leave the village to cure his alcoholism, Daniel agrees to replace him. He puts on a stolen cassock and pretends to be ‘Father Tomasz’ (the name was the one of the Juvie’s chaplain who had inspired Daniel). The boy is not prepared for a new role, but he has an exceptional sensitivity to human suffering. He finds out about a tragic event that took place in the village and remains alive in the minds of residents. He is looking for a way of reconciliation between the wife of the so-named killer and the f...

Please do not accuse me of a lack of objectivity. I write rather subjective texts, therefore, you can imagine my title question is already an answer... This weekend I went to my hometown to celebrate my aunt's 50th birthday with my relatives. As I do it always observing the Polish traditions of experiencing certain meetings, holidays, anniversaries or birthdays, also this time I come to the conclusion that we are indeed very generous and hospitable society. Usually after family parties, the topic of diet becomes a kind of mantra and everyone enjoys complaining about how much they ate but let's leave this matter of moods, that is not what I am going to consider. But just take a look, in most cases, we are very involved in preparing what requires work from us, but makes our loved ones happy.   We feel proud when we show our family a nicely set table full of dishes. We like to surprise with creativity or small cute detail. We are happy when nothing is missing and each guest fi...

I use to be an organized, responsible and consistent person, but sometimes I like to make spontaneous decisions and risk as well. I believe that everyone needs a little craziness in his or her life. That is why on 2nd October I woke up at 6 am and went with my luggage towards Benalmadena train station. Since then, everything has gone quite quickly and a bit nervous: train, plane, flight from Malaga to Berlin, bus from Berlin to Szczecin (my hometown), car, luggage change, train from Szczecin to Poznan... Finally, around midnight I got to the unknown city, pulled my bike out of the train, put my trekking backpack and with the priceless help of Google Maps app I reached my new apartment in Poznan, which I had never seen before, to start classes the very next day at 8 am. Now I can proudly call myself a student at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan and a new resident of the city. But let's get back to the point of departure. What was I doing in Benalmad...