Eating at home or in restaurant

I prefer eating in restaurants as I am not very good at cooking. However I like food prepared at home, too. But both in a restaurant and at home food must be prepared well and must be tasty and healthy.

I am really exacting about food. When I eat outside, the restaurant must be really good and food prepared in a clean way. I don’t say that a restaurant must be extremely expensive, but I rather pay more and have food of high quality than save some little money and have bad and not tasty food` what’s more there is a chance to be sick because of such a food.

Fast-foods are nowadays extremely popular. Although, I am not a big fan of them as the majority of them offer junk and unhealthy food. I don’t claim that I eat only salubrious food, but why should I eat something what is not tasty and healthy as well. To my mind, many people, usually teenagers, eat in fast-food because their friends and classmates do and so it is cool. On the other hand some fast-foods offer really good and healthy food, too; or example a baguette with fresh vegetable and meet of high quality. Such a food looks and also tastes absolutely delicious.

In my opinion almost everyone likes home-prepared food, especially by his mother or grandmother. And I do, too. Both my mum and grandma cook absolutely fantastic, but obviously, I didn’t inherit this ability. What any restaurant in the world can’t have are the traditional recipes of each family that are inherited by generations. This is something like a treasure and proud of many families.

In fact, I don’t have the exact answer if I prefer to eat in a restaurant or at home. I think that both food and atmosphere of restaurant and also home has an original spirit and the best way to choose from these two options is to combine them.

Museums

To my mind, it’s a pity when people think that a museum is an absolutely tedious place and they even can’t imagine they could enjoy a visit of a museum. Museum is also sometimes a paragon of boring school trip or a place for boring people who are interested only in books and there is nothing funny about them. However, there are many interesting and sometimes even funny things that cause that you won’t be bored in a museum in any case.

People usually visit a museum when they travel to some new places. It can be during summer vacation or a trip to a country or city. And why they do that? In the majority cases they want to know something more about the place or about its history. The other reason can be they just have nothing to do during a long time of leisure activities or a trip to a museum was offered to them by their tour guide.

Other group of visitors is the people who are passion about history or only a concrete era of history is their passion, so they travel to the place that was a center of that part of history, to visit a museum or maybe even more of them.

Anyway, the reason of visiting a museum is not so important. The most important thing is what the museum gives us. There are many salutary things as new knowledge, historical skill, new hobby, new friends, new story, etc.

A lot of famous and successful people, such as Cicero or J. Edgar Hoover, said that of the most necessary things of successful and prosperous society is to know history, as we can learn from success and also mistakes of our ancestors.

By and large, a museum can always give you something, but it’s up to you to choose the right one.

 

Sports activities vs. university libraries

I am definitely persuaded that universities should give same amount of money to students’ sports activities and libraries.

And why? The reason is simple. Why should for example studying of economics have higher position than studying something where you need sports facilities.

I know when you study something connected with sport you also need books and material that can be found in libraries as well as students who study for example medicine. On the other hand also students studying medicine need to relax and why not on the playground? Not only sportsmen need gyms and sports stuff as well as not only swots need a library. So why should be sport discriminated only because someone thinks not so many students are interested in it.

Other reason why we should support sport is, that probably more people would do some sport if they had more opportunities and better facilities. I supposed I don’t have to explain anybody how is sport and exercises important. The majority of people sit much more hours per day than they move. It is necessary to support doing sport and motivate people to do that.

What’s more, nowadays it is such a trend that the better sports facilities the better school it is. However, sometimes less is more. Because when you have some complicated fitness machines and don’t know what to do with them, it’s a waste of money to buy them. Simple playground for football, ice-hockey or ice-skating would be better, cheaper and probably students would have there much more fun.

To sum up, both libraries and sports activities are important and we should take ancients Greeks as example as they believed in kalokagathia – the harmony between wisdom and body.

Success and Luck

First of all; what is luck? I am persuaded that no one knows the exact definition of this word. So how can we objectively answer the question if luck has something to do with success?

By and large, luck is often understood as coincidence, lucky and helpful coincidence. Frankly, I don’t believe in coincidence, as I’m persuaded that everything is happening for some reason, so we shouldn’t regret things in our past.

In fact, I don’t know any other “definition” of luck except the one which I have presented above. To my mind, many people use this word without knowledge of its right meaning. For example, somebody achieves something and says “I have luck”, “Luck helped me”, “Luck for very important in that case”, or something similar. But do these people really know, what they said? I think, that using the word “luck” they mean positive circumstances for them. And there I must agree – they are really important and influential. Although, the most important thing is one’s belief in himself, in his abilities and qualities.

Though I have written about salutary circumstances, we can’t rely only on them. Preparation, knowledge of the thing, qualities, talent, will and, as I’ve said, belief are also very important. To sum up, there are many factors which influence success and result of something at all. I believe that more important than thinking about the reasons of success is to succeed.