As I did also last year, I decided again, to write a very personal post in my blog. Nowadays, when some people find "boring" or lazy to write a personalized letter for birthday and human relationships became more and more superficial, real values such as old friendships, fidelity, responsibility, hard and persistent work, kindness and devotion need a special care for survivor.
So, here is a list, why I'm very grateful and thankful in this year:
- grateful for my relatively good health and the fact, that I had no serious injures in this year (although I found my limits in this sense)
- grateful for my amazing friends, especially those who I know since 15 or even 20 years now. Biggest gift of the human adventure to have so long interactions and relationships
- grateful for all the new friends and nice colleagues who I met in this year and we are keeping our friendship also now. They made much easier my stay in all the foreign countries I visited or where I need to live
- thankful for visiting 15 cities in 5 countries in this year and all the cool people I met there
- thankful for my colleagues from Erfurt, who still represent the best spiritual and intellectual support to survive a cute, but for me, too provincial town
- thankful for the colleagues from Alba Iulia and my friends there, helping me to write the book about Cserni Béla
- thankful for all the conferences, colloquiums and seminars where I had the opportunity to meet so many amazing names and personalities. A memorable moment of the year was the Lived Ancient Religion panel at the IAHR, where at least 20 of the best scholars from my field were present in a small room.
- and finally, I'm thankful for my struggles and painful experiences in this year too. They helped me to learn my limits, to be more confident and sure, what I want and what I like. My stay in Germany proved also, that I value more emotions, passion, devotion, fidelity and the old, Central European values than some so called liberal or Western ideologies. And I'm proud of that.
One of the big discoveries of this year: the beauty of Prague
