goal setting and achieving

January is coming to an end ,the first  month of this year was quite good . As many people did ,i  set some  goals ,some personal  some business ones and some fitness one . This  month  surprisingly enough i managed to complete most of my fitness goals with only a couple of them remaining till the end of the year they are so easily achievable . One big goal i set was to do a photography exhibition ,this is taken care of since i ll make my first one in the end of February ,next it will be great to make a name of my self and get recognised as an artist and finally my personal goal is to become a better human being , for me ,for my family and for my friends .Thank you January and February i  am ready for you 

change in greece

So after so many years  a new party has officially been elected, a more lefty minded party that will change  the political  world of Greece . I was always in favour of the change both in my country and in Greece but after seeing what the left party did to my country i am worrying for Greece .We weren't in that bad situation as Greece is but somehow we managed to fall in the crisis much much deeper in the hands of the left party.Greece however may have yet another one historical moment , one that can also make Europe think better , cause if Alexis Tsipras (the president of SIRIZA) manage to bring together the other parties  and  also manage to full fill if not all most of his promises then Greece might actually have a bright future.I believe sometimes in order to go fourth when you are in the gutter you have to make a dramatic change  and this is one is  a big change we  only have to see what will happen next .The only problem and  what really bothers me in this elections are the rising percentages of extremist right party golden dawn ( xrisi avgi ) they are the third party with little but significant percentage , this shows one thing in my opinion ,if Alexis tsipras and Siriza fail to improve Greece or even  make it worse then i am fear that Golden dawn will rise next ,Siriza right now  is the only hope for Greece even if Europe doesn't want Alexis to be in charge but for Greece is a sign of hope and a sign of a possible brighter future , but then again if Alexis fail Greece will be destroyed ...

for the book lovers

after reading some articles online about e-books and real books i realised  why  i  love books . I am part of the generation where everything is digital and computerise but i  am also part of the maybe the last generation who really enjoyed life before becoming so techy and still enjoying it now where everything is changed.Almost everything not all though, i really can't say something bad about ebooks cause i never read  books online or on smart phones or whatever those devices are called that you can read books , seriously i don't know the name of devices cause i never cared to read a fake book.When you are at a bookstore and you are searching for a book ,you get lost in the never ending selection you can have  , you go through the pages of the one book then the other one then another and you are simply lost in their magic, it's like sirens singing to drag you in but instead of eating you alive they open up your life .I ve never liked a house that has no books in it ,i ve been to a millionaire's house and for some reason they didn't had any books ,they bragged about their cars their money their everything and i was like ''ok but where are your books ? '', ''we don't need books when we can read them online and on our portable devices ( don't remember the device ) '', so just like that i hated the place ,yes it was big and you had a lot to do ,but what happens when you want to ease your mind ? i wouldn't be able to live in a house like that but they can for there own reason and i am not the one to judge them.You see books are something special  ,from the smallest book to the biggest one ,every book is an adventure to somewhere, adventure to learning , to relaxing,to fantastic and magical places ,to the past and the memoirs of our ancestors .It's a journey like life where you start to read and then you grow from the book and then you are at the end ,just like the life's cirlce.you can die a millions times from the books but in every rebirth you are a stronger and a wiser person ,that knowledge in my opinion can only be obtained by the books ,by physically touching the pages and flipping them over to next chapter and to the next chapter ,i am sorry but books are just magic and sometimes words can't express the feeling you get from them. I know i run an online blog and it might be contradictive  to what i am writing right now  but if i had the chance i would prefer to write books and write paper articles and write stories for kids or horror stories and spook people away ,but as i said i am in the generation of the new school and old school and as so we must keep the balance ,

thought of the day

what really happens to the people we love when they leave , we surely don't know .

We wish they are in  a better place with no worries and no pain but do we really know ?

we really don't but we  know where they ll never leave from ,our hearts .

For as long as the love is in our beating heart their memoirs their spirit will live on with us .

their knowledge and their helping hand will always be there to push us through the difficult times .

we tend to love and remember people who touched our souls and our hearts ,friends and family members are the top ones of course.i lost a dear friend when i was really young , he overdosed and die but he was always there to protect me from drugs and anything bad, i  was 12 so i really didn't knew what he was doing or where i was getting my self to but he was there to keep my safe,he lived his life as he was older and died from something he held me back and for that i will forever be thankfull to him.

I remember loosing my grandpa  8 years ago  at that time i was lost i couldn't know what i was feeling ,if it was anger , pain ,sorrow or grief .then a tragic accident happened in my country ,in an army base containers filled with explosive powder and something else , explode and caused the death of 13 people 2 of them were twins and my good friends , Then i lost my dear aunt at that time i was allready depressed and her loss through me even more in the gutter and dark abuss of depression . Then my grandma got sick , cancer of course and  she only had three months left to live they said ,he survived the three months actually she is almost two years alive , she is not at her best right now and we are fearing for the worst again . you won't find something poetic in this post .this is just a glimpse of my thoughts today.

music

with  rain falling and sitting in my room having the headphones on and listening to old songs 

melancholia comes to play ,how lucky were our parents and grandparents ,

who they lived in a world were music was an art 

every song made back then even the ''pop'' was ten times more artistic than today's brothel some people call good music.

Back when people would listen to real masterpieces and not the garbage produced today just to make money .Its funny to think that supposedly the world has grow and became more civilised and modern .Opening up the radio today is a struggle to find a decent song sure they are some musicians that are true artists but the majority is that they are all in for the money and the fame of it . back then singers would ''fight'' to be the best artist and not the most idiot one ,their image played a small part in their careers cause mainly they had it all .They had talent ,they had  true un dieing passion for their art and they worked their ass off to go to a level with little to none help, while today auto tune and a gazillion people are pushing singers  in the  forefront of music while humble and true artists are let behind in the shadows . Hope one day our generation or the next generation will go back to listening to true artists and not  garbage .

what if

what if you die in your sleep tonight , how would you rate your life ? have you completed all your goals or have you completed some of them ? have you even set any goals to complete ? are you gonna say you lived a happy life  or are you gonna regret for not living your life ? have you been a good friend or have you stood by your family when they needed you the most ,or where you so selfish you only cared about your self?have you actually cared about anyone else in your life rather than your self ?have you fall in love and have you had your heart broken into pieces till you manage to pick up each piece one by one and then found the real love of your life to help you put them back together ?did you took the chances you have been given or did you wasted them in gutter along with your wasted dreams ? most importantly have you even lived ?

simple questions that need some answers but the true answers  can only be found by you and you alone 

common sense over rage

i started to  write because i needed to express my feelings . I was never good at expressing my feelings out loud and through writing i found my escape .In time poetry ,prose and writing grew in me to something much important .I don't a problem anymore expressing my feelings neither i have a problem saying my thoughts and my beliefs out loud but writing helps me express everything i believe and everything i feel to the world . There was a time in my life i was afraid to write and or say what i really believed or what i thought for something , this however changed through writing .I wont stop writing and i won't be afraid to express my feelings my thoughts my dreams on this electronic ''paper''. I am Greek/Cypriot which means i live in Cyprus and i was born and raised here ,what happens in France scares me for only one reason,i know Muslims despise extremist and so does every religion despise their extremist groups but here am afraid for my friends.Close minded people will start blaming every Muslim and every Arab person in my country ,they will not kill someone hopefully but the hate will  grow inside so much people and that rage is wrong . That rage will lead some people to do  terrible things to people who don't share their beliefs and then the rage will grow in the hearts of those people as well ,this cycle will go on and on for as long as people choose rage over common sense.Rage and hatred will destroy this world far quicker than a comet hit this earth ,i am afraid of the hate of people who are so ignorant  that  will willingly kill other people for their beliefs ,i am afraid of those people .However  I AM NOT AFRAID  to write and express ,if i die from something i believe then so be it , terrorist of any kind wont stop me from writing .YOU may say i am just a small man from Cyprus and no one will care about what i write ,well i don't care for either ,i  am one but together we are many and together we are more than terrorist ,their terror shall not penetrate  in our hearts and humanity will stand tall against terrorism . je suis charlie 

je suis charlie

sorry but this is drifting out of control.As an artist  i despise what just happened today at Charlie Hebdo  ,extremist like those people should just be punished ,i have nothing against any relegion i am not a christian neither islamist neither catholic ,i am human .Being human supposedly we have common sense and supposedly we can see what is good and what is bad ,supposedly we are inferior to animals but animals don't kill out of religion they kill for survival .Those ''people'' who killed the innocent artists are no where near being humans they are no where near of being animals either ,they are just living creatures who have nothing but hate in them.Hate that is cultivated by even more extremist groups that brainwash poor people and command them to kill in the name of their religion,call it Islam,call it Christianity call it whatever you want ,you have no right to kill anyone .
May the souls of the dead rest in peace and hopefully they ll still sketch wherever they may be .JE SUIS CHARLIE

sit in the rain

today was  a good day ,all day raining and wind blowing like crazy.This is what you need sometimes though,a  perfect storm like this to shake you up and clean you up.sitting in the rain and soaking wet is as purifying as  taking a fresh breath high up in the mountains.Your body might get cold a bit but your soul will get warm and it will get stronger than before,all the worries and all of your anxiety will leave your body, you wont fear anything anymore ,the rain is so overwhelming that your emotions will flow out like rivers and your soul will recharge with emotions you didn't even had before .The wind ,oh the wind will make sure your lungs will be clean and toxin free.so never be afraid meditating in the rain or even just sitting in the rain ,life is full of wonders and sitting in rain is one of them .

Ps: I AM A WINTER SWIMMER AND I KNOW WHEN TO GET TO SAFETY IF I FEEL TOO COLD AND I KNOW HOW TO KEEP MY SELF WARM.PLEASE DO THIS WITH SAFETY IN YOUR MIND ,THANK YOU  AND ENJOY THE RAIN :)

greetings to the 2015

while many people make their new years resolution i prefer to make my past years review,while writing down my memoirs can't help my self from not shading some tears . I am not a perfect man and i probably never be but last year was a turning point for me and for my life ,i realised my true potentials and what path my life should follow from now on.I had my pains and sorrows of course like every human being in this world , i am not complaining rather i feel blessed for being able to go through them and come out strong ,for they helped me see clearly my true self and the person i seek to be ,if i succeed to that ,time will tell .I grew as a man and  i let my spirit expand to new horizons and to new destinies but my heart stayed in place for a while and then it opened like spring flower opens up to the sun .Full of joy i feel and with positivity as a weapon i go through each  day ,for times are hard make no mistake to that but with love in my heart and a soul willing to fight for what i want   , my dreams will come true and as of December are in the right track.So this small prose is my greetings to  2014 and my welcoming of the 2015