Christmas

It`s the day right before Christmas Eve. Nowadays it has becomed a harvest time for shops. Owners of business rub their hands and have a sneaky smile - I`m going to earn big time!
Why are we so obsessed with gifts - things to show our love? Why do we stress about it? Does it really matter?

It has something to do with the cycle of nature. In northern hemisphere days are short, the dark hours urge us to fill them with something. To block the thought of loneliness we try to fill it with things to make us feel better. It`s ok to give gifts, but it should not be an indicator of our love towards our family and beloved ones. Switch of the TV, take away the presents, Christmas tree and money spent on presents, food and decorations. Listen to yourself. Listen to your deepest voice. Isn`t there a small kid crying? Like Mariah Carey sang: "All I want for Christmas is you." I believe that`s what that kid inside us really wants - to be with beloved ones, feel loved and give love, appreciate what you have and be appreciated, light up smiles on other`s faces.

If we lived in a small house in a forest with no electricity, with no chance to buy gifts and be a part of the Christmas gift buying marathon, what is the first thing we wanted? Of course - to be with someone. To share with all you have. That`s what really matters. We come together with our families and light up the dark hours of winter with wood in the fireplace, smell of a special Christmas dinner and love. Yes, love towards yourself and love towards your loved ones.

It is very important to be with someone during these days when we take a step into new cycle, when days become longer. Same applies to giving birth to a newborn baby. He ends his last cycle and starts a new one. If he had not the chance to be in his mother`s belly away from hostile environment, he could not survive.
Imagine love as the belly of your mother, where you prepared and got stronger to make first steps into this world.

Spend Christmas with your family, visit your parents and grandparents, ask your kids to help you in the kitchen to make Christmas dinner, tell them stories, teach them to appreciate what we have, teach them to land a hand for those who are in need. It is our responsibility to make a better world. Each of us contributes in making a better world.
Don`t worry if you didn`t have time or money to buy gifts, it`s not that important if you make someone`s day special with your love.

Christmas is the real New Year`s eve, because the days become longer and we step into a new cycle.

I wish everyone to share love and be loved, to appreciate what we have and leave anger, pain, suffering and all other bad emotions behind. I think of everyone reading and not reading this, I want you all to be happy and loved.

Merry Christmas with love from Latvia.

Anyone can do it

I`m 25 years old with a primary school education. You might think - oh, that guy most probably is a looser and can`t earn a living. Yeah, that`s what I though after leaving school and experiencing extreme depression with suicidal thoughts. But things are not built that way. Only what matters is what do you think of yourself. If you think you`re a looser, you`ll be a looser. If you think you`re ugly, weak and can`t be sucessful, yeah, most probably that will happen. The thing we control who we are. Sometimes it takes time and effort to ignore what others think, deal with the presure and what you think of yourself. But in the end you can achieve anything you want. By believing yourself, hard work and determination. With a little help of tallent, being in the right place at the right time you can be millionaire or at least wealthy.

So, primary school education. What can you do with that, what job can you have? A janitor, a seller at a supermarket, street sweeper? Or a beggar? I`m not saying a janitor or a seller is a bad job to have. There are people who enjoy to clean up and look at their work and smile. But the point is - what do you want in your life? Education can`t force you to be stupid, unintelligent or rude. Your success has nothing to do with educations. Imagine how many high school graduates live a ret race lives? Education does not exempt you  from working low paid jobs. What really matters is what you want!

And once again - you have primary school education and you`re teaching me to live life? Well, I`m not teaching you to live your life, I`m encouraging you to dream big, never limit yourself, never give up on your dreams and things you want to do, because of that, that and that, that and that. "That`s" never end. You have the power to ignore reasons you can`t do something and find reasons why to do it.
Before 3 years I was without a job, without an education, without a hope to be sucessful. Although I had a huge potential and tallent, I did not know how to use it. And then a opportunity popped up to work as a low paid translator. That`s how it all begun. I noticed my skills and tallent. I started working as a freelance translator, landed more and more jobs, got involved in many projects. Now I`m earning 3 times more than a regular Latvian citizen earns. I don`t feel proud about money, I feel proud I never gave up on myself, I`m proud I`m showing all the smartass high school graduatesm the system and those who gave up on me I have more to offer. But the most important thing - I`ve proven myself I can do anything I want.
I`m a really skinny guy. My average weight is 63 kilograms. When I had to fight for love of my life, I proved myself I can do anything - I trained hard and change my attitude and gained 7 kilograms of muscles. Some would say I`ll never be a good looking guy, but everything is in your head.

I`m not saying I`m perfect, I still have problems I`d like to solve, but I`m taking all the oportunities life has to offer, I`m overcoming my chronic depressions and look on obstacles as just an experience. I hope this blog will be a great way, how to monitor my success, talk out all the problems and encourage you to join my journey! I hope I can help you and you can help me. One of the best things we have is the opportunity to learn. And we can learn from any experience, from each person.

I hope you`ll stick around with me. I have many life experiences I`d like to share.

Have a nice day, be happy and never give on your dreams!