So be it - since all my free and not-so-free time is taken up by running my own company, I will write about my everyday life. Perhaps someone will find it interesting to read an insider's stories about the day-to-day of recruiting.
This holiday we visited Forum Cinemas for the first time in a long while, to sample the recently released detective comedy "Criminal Excellence Foundation." The film's funds were raised through a crowdfunding campaign and it features no professional actors. Despite all of this, the film turned out professional and enjoyable. The role performers are colourful characters, so I wanted to learn more about them. It turns out information in official sources is rather sparse - I had to gather evidence like a detective across the whole wide web.
An age-old question - does each person, each relationship have a fate? Is a person free in their choice to change fate, or do they choose what they cannot help but choose, because it is deeply rooted in their nature?
I was born on the same date as Vivienne, only thirty-six years later, in a different country and under a different political system. She seems to have rushed ahead by at least a century and turned the world upside down. There is something in her of Generation Z or even a generation from further still in the future - indifference to authority, a refusal to accept the concept of fashion as such, the demolition of age boundaries, a feverish protectiveness of the planet's resources. And yes - the stubbornness of those born under Aries, brightness in self-expression, a desire to confront everyone and everything.
Is it easy to get an internet connection at home nowadays? You know, this is a two-week story worthy of a miniseries - full of bewilderment at why this process consumes so many human resources, energy and time. Moreover, the company insists on cash payment.
November is a true month of patriotism and national pride, when many pin a red-white-red ribbon to their coat lapel, light memorial candles for defenders of the fatherland, sing the anthem at festive events and recall historical happenings. These are not typical greeting-card-writing celebrations, but poetry also serves at these festivities, on Latvia's Commemoration Day and birthday.
Openness and transparency are good - don't be afraid of them. Give up your unnecessary privacy. Technology will protect you if you don't protect or care for yourself. It will prevent you from dying in accidents, it will monitor your heart rate, treat diseases and balance your diet and physical activity, protect you from evil and differently-thinking people. You will live in a circle and be part of it.
The film is rated nearly "good" on IMDb - that is, it has received a relatively low rating. That may well be, if judged from an artistic or plot-based perspective. But what drew me in was the film's very idea - yet another, I must say quite plausible, attempt to explain what happens to human consciousness after death.
No, this won't be a story about Paulo Coelho's books, but about the worldview of the character he created - the Knight of Light: when you truly want something, the whole world secretly joins hands to help you. Because sometimes there are moments in life when, no matter what you do and no matter how hard you push forward, your feet sink as if into a swamp, and obstacles and "well-wishers" appear from nowhere. And then there are moments when it seems as if there is some unified world soul or collective human consciousness that reads your deepest desires and hurries to help you. Familiar feelings?
Paulo Coelho wrote this book as a female narrator - from a woman's point of view. The story of a successful thirty-year-old journalist who lives in Geneva and has an ideal family - a husband, two children, a beautiful house in a good neighbourhood, a calm, ordered and predictable life. A happy life. But a moment arrives when she begins to be tormented by the question: "Is this all?" She is overcome by an inexplicable fear.