Nature Dei

20/04/2022

Very lucky to be exhausted from working on the projects we deeply care for.

14/04/2022

It's spring.
And we smile here in Spain.
It's the same spring.
Ukrainian women are being r***d.
2000 miles.
We continue our lives.
But we do feel your pain.
💙💛

This post is useless. I should better go report some propaganda on YouTube.

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27/03/2022

Accidentally 'met' my favorite painting in the whole wide world. Literally felt like I just won a lottery, fell in love and found a puppy - all of that at the same time.

René Magritte is the actual genius creating fantasy on a piece of canvas. J'adore.

26/10/2021

Me sharing my future visions (of how to change the world) to a friend.
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06/10/2021

My therapist once said I have a beautiful inner child. Oh I wish she had seen that inner child today:
"Dairy-free ice cream (in a cone) in a tiny Spanish fishermen village?! Dios mío!"

So yeah. This is me appreciating little (actually big) things and letting the inner child take over.

01/10/2021

My greatest framed art.

Just deleted the last two months' plan captured with a pencil on this (home made) work calendar in order to fill it with the new one (exciting).

It feels like it represents (and is the first manifest of) the creation of the future.
Mindful creation --> art (in a way) --> deserves to be framed.

*Currently working on alternative proteins/future foods. PM if wanna chat about it/have ideas to share/discuss.

30/09/2021

Meeting an old good friend looks and feels like this (full of depth, high quality & worth waiting film photograph).

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Ačiū, Audriau 🤍.

26/09/2021

Few days ago we needed to kill a fox. It was a mercy killing, but yet, it was a killing. It's a very extraordinary experience bringing extraordinary thoughts. I've tried to put them all in one essay (link in bio).

The summary? We have an incredible, sometimes hardly comprehensible, power within ourselves.

From Erich Fromm's " To have or to be?":
If one takes someone’s clothes, we would call him a thief; but does the one, who could provide clothes to the pour, but chooses not to, deserve any different name?

22/04/2021

WOW. My last video was involved in one of the University's (SMU, Dallas) "Writing and Critical thinking skills" program as an example of a scout mindset essay.

Years and years ago, I was an A-level student, and as nerdy as it sounds, hearing praises from a lecturer just melts my heart, haha!

On a more serious note, I know - it's the try, not the result that should matter, Stoics would remind me. But as a not-a-perfect human being, I appreciate such rewards a lot, because it also reminds me that dedicated hard work that feels right and exists along with your values is worth the effort.

This channel is definitely an endurance project. Thanks for being with me.

P.S. If you have friends who are hardcore-vaccine-hesitancy critics, I think my last video is worth sharing. As a pro-vaxxer, I as well, need to remind myself of the facts from my own video while having a chat with a vaccine doubter.

If you like my videos, please become my Patron here:https://www.patreon.com/naturedeiBefore we start: 1) I am pro vaccines. I do trust in science. 2) This vi...

21/02/2021

Feb 12th I turned 30.
I was supposed to have kids by this time (perhaps 2 + the third one on a way). And a very well-paid math/management-based job. And a good car. And a mortgage. A lot of business dresses. All of this was inevitable in my head ten years ago. I thought success and happiness have well-known paths. Whom am I kidding - I didn't think this. I DIDN'T THINK AT ALL about that! It was simply "how it's supposed to be".

But that's the difference between me in my 20th and me in my 30th. If during my 20's I questioned the exterior more, now, in addition, I question interior - myself - a lot.

And it's brilliant! It's annoying too, haha, but it's brilliant. I'm basically fighting my own ignorance. Tough fight as first the ignorance must be found.

I'd call it a good hunt though.

So, in the latest hunt, I asked myself - why the hell, I was sure I gonna be a mum one day.

When I was a kid, my happiest moments were playing with lego and cars. Saving imaginary animals from the sinking imaginary boat. Jumping after grasshoppers (weird and lovely, I know).

I never liked playing with baby dolls (and later real babies) that much. It just felt weird and unnatural.

"One day it will come", I kept telling myself. "I will want to become a mother!". Hmm.

But why did I need to? Where did this idea come from?

The decision of having or not having a child is the hardest one in our lives because it is irreversible.

For some it's obvious. They want/need kids as much as I need my Taiga (dog). For others, it's also obvious - they hate them (which is weird and makes me want to remind them that they were kids too).

But for some, and I am included in this group too, it's just a super hard decision as it's probably gonna be ok either way.

So, how to make this decision and how to not regret it - in the latest video.
It's quite entertaining too, btw. My first proper sketch. Have fun watching! https://youtu.be/DpqcnQVmHIA

Before you go - what's your story? Is/was it a hard or easy decision?

Stay healthy!
Dei

21/01/2021

We all have our stories. Our own dramas, our own tragedies. And often we say "life wasn't fair".

But life, often is actually NOT unfair (notice, not saying it's fair either!). It might be random, or it might mean we are entitled. One might get cancer after serving his/her all life as a doctor/volunteer/nurse. Nature sometimes is so random that it's hard to comprehend.

Sometimes we work extremely hard and get...like my mum likes to say - a p**p on the stick. Aka - nothing. Feels so unfair, but is it...? Some things just happen and are indeed fair (even if the innate feeling is quite opposite).

Though sometimes s**t is real.

Sometimes life IS indeed unfair.

I watched Flint Town Water Crise story - the governor decided to supply fresh water to GM car factory, but lead-poisoned water to Flint Town people (nice job, you greedy spoiled terrible creature).

Then I had heard The Guardian podcast of Noor's story. How Yemen women have no rights and can be forced to marriage at any age (yes, any)...and then about the multi-sided civil war, that many people don't even know is happening.

It would be stupid to think life is fair or unfair, black or white. It's colored, but it's worth learning how to separate these colors. In my latest video - on everything I've mentioned before.
https://youtu.be/wlXykQO1kHM

05/01/2021

Really? NEVER give up?! Sorry, but that's not great advice. I'd say - GIVE UP. Yeah, give up - don't get stuck! Sure, you started to do something and after (let's say) 5 years there is too much of an investment made. Emotional and / or financial. But girl/boy, 5 years gave you skills, that's not a waste! A proper waste is to do the same thing that doesn't drive you anymore for the upcoming 5, 15, 25 years. Our culture and economy are too concentrated on putting in our heads the idea of being specialists, that we forget the option of generalism...and yet, the latest data shows generalism is more likely to lead to the fulfillment of your potential.

I talk about this more in the latest video. Covering the (myth of) talent too.
https://youtu.be/QUfZuDqV7QM

Stay healthy (don't give up on that one!).