I have always been interested in one question. How do people see me from the outside? And I’m not talking only about passers-by on the street, but also about people who see me every day and know me pretty closely.
Today I asked my acquaintances and friends to show their best improvisation of me! I agree, it is a little narcissistically, but here are some of my favorite «parodies».
And personally, my favorite and the most accurate:
So how can though details and everyday things make us exactly — US? We pass by hundreds of people on the street, in public transportation, as well as in the work and academic space every single day. While viewing people, have you ever wondered about what message this or that detail of a person carries? If our belongings could talk, what do you think would tell about us?
The star of my article today and the object of my close attention this week was my dear friend — Diana. At my request, Diana told me a story about a detail which is important to her.
Samsung GT star 5230 was her first phone. In some sense, Diana’s influenced her future choice of profession. Diana received it as a gift at the age of twelve from her grandmother. Since this gift is very intimate to her, she still has kept it in memory of «simpler times» in life.
«Grandma bought phones for her older grandchildren on her first pension, which was a great joy for us!»
As a child, she already showed creative inclinations. With this phone, she became interested in music and video-making.
«As a child, I would be shooting videos similar to the series and films that I watched and tried to put my creative vision into them»
Also, the phone has become a source of inspiration and a tool helping express thoughts in the form of stories, notes, and even «fanfictions». As a music lover, Diana enjoyed listening to the first songs of her favorite artists.
Without realizing it, Diana from an early age expressed all the abilities and character required for future journalists. A journalist has to be much on everything: starting with photo and video shooting, editing and directing abilities, ending with a trained look at various areas of life like art or science.
I wish Diana to continue to develop and improve her skills surpassing herself!
Last week was filled with both positive and negative news. I won’t let you get bogged down in negative energy today and want to tell my opinion about some optimistic events in our country. Since environmental awareness is becoming a very popular topic, I am very pleased with the amount of mindfulness people have about this matter.
The newspaper «Evening Almaty» broadcasts to us that last week such a green campaign as the «Jasyl Almaty» took the start in Apple City. The action is aimed at landscaping and called upon the prosperity of the “lungs” of our hometown. Hundreds of residents took the initiative in planting seedlings.
This news article was published by Vasily Shupeyken and Irina Vasilievna (authors in the newspaper) on the 17th of October, made me very happy. In a stream of hard news, I am always looking for a ray of bright light, just like this one!
Concern for ecology and the struggle for its purification goes, not only from the outside but also from the “inside”. Elena Sokolova, a journalist for the «Evening Almaty» newspaper, spoke on the 15th of October, with the director of the upcoming Kazakhstan Fashion Week – Alexei Zhen.
Alexey Zhen spoke about the problems of the national fashion industry and its goals for the future development of eco-friendly materials for clothing lines. The goal for the designers for the spring/summer season was to use environmentally friendly materials in the development of their ideas.
Comparing the writing style and presentation of these two articles, I express my position to seek positive in the world and people around us. I don’t want to live in a bubble of pink dreams, but I am not going to put up with cruelty either.
I am very amazed and proud of the turnover of environmental movements in our country. More and more, Kazakhstan is entering an open dialogue on how to make our living environment cleaner. Ordinary residents of Almaty support such a column in the newspaper “Evening Almaty” as “City duty officer” pointing out and fixing problems together.
I admit I don’t like a few things in this life. One of them is small talk with unfamiliar people. Exceptions are the moments of excellent mood! Starting from last year, I keep pushing my borders. It’s time to get finally used to what profession I chose, to let my inner journalist start flourishing.
The second thing is to take a ride by taxi. We live in a country where there tons of cases associated with taxi drivers. The frequency of thefts of women is simply frightening.
It was a little bit scary for me to combine conversations with strangers (mostly with men), with a taxi ride. With the seventh attempt to find out an interesting story related to a person’s detail, I still succeeded!
Taking yet another car, I noticed, compared to the previous ones, brilliant cleanliness in the salon. I think, I even smelled the leather of fresh seats. No extra accessories, everything is strictly functional. But one thing immediately caught my attention. A small plastic token hanging on the mirror, which depicted a crossed-out cigarette.
Trying not to put pressure on a person with my questions, somehow I got the story little by little. The driver (let’s call him Alex) got it after the tragic events in his life. His older brother recently passed away after losing his fight against lung cancer.
The examination revealed that cancer metastases enveloped Alex’s brother organs like a web. The lungs, like a flying butterfly, got stuck in this web, condemning themselves to inevitable death.
Lung cancer was a genetically transmitted disease from relatives of Alex’s parents. From the age of fourteen, he had smoked 7-9 cigarettes. The loss of his brother made him rethink his state of health. Thinking about his children, Alex decided to play it safe and begin treatment to get rid of a bad habit.
It is incredibly difficult to get rid of such a bad habit as smoking, but looking at this seemingly «plain accessory» in the car before smoking reminds Alex of his brother and possibly dangerous consequences of smoking.
The concept and use of blogs appeared and spread at the end of the last century. People who’ve been born before the millennials still remember the time when everyone had a blog which was a prestigious and pretty popular occupation (and eventually became 2000’s aesthetic).
This was another way to tell stories, express thoughts and opinions online (when Instagram didn’t take over the world yet and there were no pseudo philosophers with their «deep» long reads).
The theme of blogs was also very common in the entertainment industry. Images of bloggers have been everywhere in various films and TV series.
To date, such heroes as Carrie Bradshaw, Gossip Girl (Dan Humphrey), and Barney Stinson have become the most memorable for me! Their characters and blogging style left a colorful imprint in my memory, which inspires me now.
I also want to combine Carrie’s daydreaming nature and lightness, Barney’s dedication and love for blogging, Dan Humphrey’s unbiasedness, and open-mindedness.
I still have a very abstract but interesting flashback moment of how, when I was five, I first saw a laptop on TV. It made such a strange impression on me since I did not understand what I just saw.
The reason behind my inventiveness of new ways to entertain myself at childhood was that I’m the only child my parents had. I still clearly remember how I took the magazine, set it in front of me, made a mouse from improvised materials. Thus, without suspecting it, I imagined myself as a blogger! My childish game now smoothly passes into my direct duty – my future profession, if you will?
Coincidence? Nah, I don’t believe in coincidences.
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