My favorite website

Let me try to think of something other than Facebook...

..still thinking..

Oh I know - youtube! :)

Be it a joke or not, for many these are the only things they use internet for. Since I'm into photography and design, I visit a lot of forums and blogs that are related to those topics.

One of my favorites is Dizajn Zona (design zone), a Serbian forum about design where people post their work and then get opinions on it from their coleagues and professionals. It I also a good place to find ideas for your work.

In my favorites bar can also be found websites of the promoting companies for Chicago nightlife (since I work for some of them, and I always love to check what the photos i took for them look like).

Farther than that, not really any other websites that I regularly visit. Facebook is definitely taking over everything that used to be popular on the net. Today it's better to have a page on Facebook then your personal website!

Do your zodiac sign traits describe your personality?

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A typical Capricorn has good organizational skills, is neat and tidy, have hardheaded practicality. You have strong work ethic, materialistic tendencies, a conservative streak, conventionality and great respect for authority. You are ambitious, serious and dedicated to duty. You are self-disciplined, responsible and practical but at times, you can wallow in self-pity. Your reasoning ability is excellent and has strong sense of purpose and direction.

A Capricorn may appear somber and reserved in their dealings with others, but once they give the trust, they are a loyal and steadfast friend. Socially oriented, you are willing to work hard for anything you want, and your self-esteem is extremely important to you. You are bright and quick. You are good in detail as well as in insight and conceptual formulation. You are materialistic rather than philosophical. You are capable of falling in love for its own pleasure but love alone will not motivate you to marriage. To you marriage serves a social design.
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Wow I'm totally awesome, right?

I can find myself in all of this, I do I maybe just want to find myself in all of this?
If there is anything in the world that I really don't believe in, that is zodiac/horoscope. Ok well I don't believe in dragons either.

But come on, every single person can describe himself with at least one of these traits. Zodiac traits are so broad that, by looking strictly straight ahead, we think that these are written exactly for us.

Two of my best friends are Capricorns. You wouldn't believe what opposites we are. People probably wonder why we are even friends since we are so different. and yet, I am sure that if they looked at this list, thay would also say "yup, that's me".

Let's see what i think about it:

organizational skills - hm well I guess, I'm definitely trying to get better in organizing my life
neat and tidy - lol I wish! actually, my mom wishes! :D
You are ambitious, serious and dedicated to duty - ok this is totally me. Ambition is my second name :)
Your reasoning ability is excellent and has strong sense of purpose and direction - this is one of those things where everyone finds themselves, everybody likes having strong reasoning ability, right?
You are capable of falling in love for its own pleasure but love alone will not motivate you to marriage. To you marriage serves a social design. - I am not really sure what they are trying to tell me here.

My point is that, if I read the zodiac traits for Aries, I would probably find as many things that describe me as here.

Conclusion: I don't believe in it.

Something that caused me to drastically change my thinking

It took me a day to decide if I was going to come to United States or not. Twenty days after that decision was made I was on the plane flying across the ocean. I had always thought before that that I am a strong person, I used to travel a lot, meet new people all the time so a fresh new start didn't seem like something frightening to me. But after fifteen days I realized that this wasn't one of those trips. It wasn't having fun, meeting new people, partying, and then coming back. Back home. Not until then had it struck me. Not until then had I realized that I was supposed to create a new life, far away from home. I started regretting; Northeastern was everything but a college I was hoping for; it just lacked the social life I was so used to.

Days got worse, I was missing my real home more and more every day; I even got to the point when my mom told me that if I wanted to go home I could just go. But I stayed and decided to fight it. I found a job and saved money to go back home for the winter break. That was the only thing that was keeping me alive. The thought of seeing THEM again.

And then I went home. And I was lost. Confused. Everything was completely the same. But I wasn't. I wanted something more but I couldn't figure out what. I knew more of the world and the passiveness of the life in Serbia was just holding me back from reaching some higher point in my life yet to be discovered.

For the first time, I was certain that I made the right decision to come here. Serbia is always going to be my home, but it will never open enough doors for me to want to move back. At this point of my life, I couldn't ask for more. I have come to the point of self-achievement that I could have never dreamed of.

If it wasn't for that trip back home, I would probably still be wining about wanting to leave. Not today. Today I am satisfied with who I am, and who I am becoming. I appreciate life more.

And I'm spending my summer break in Serbia! :)