Things like this are THE best result I could have ever wished for by putting my book out there Thank you for the kind words, Morty, and for the permission to share your testimonial!

Heard this song on the radio today and it brought me down memory lane.... Backdrop. It's early 2005, I'm 12 years old. I was already in my "rebellious teenager" phase so pop music and the Eurovision song contest seemed pretty lame to me by then. However, it was still all over the Estonian media and my parents were into it as well, so for better or for worse, I got exposed to the whole thing. The Estonian preliminary round of the contest is on. My parents are watching it downstairs; I'm somewhere around, probably playing video games or something, and then I hear this song. And I see this girl... I'm enamored. Gobsmacked. Spellbound. Who is she and why do feel this way? I leave the living room and run upstairs to my room. And no, I didn't go there to do what you’re now probably thinking I went to do. Nowadays, some people know me as the guy who does 120+ pushups every day. This was not always the case. However, this song and this girl (she was 16 at the time) propelled me to do some pushups and sit-ups right then and there, as I figured I'd have to be in top shape to ever get a girl like this. A shame I didn’t commit to 100+ a day and stick with it… otherwise, who knows! In the end, the song got a close second place in the votes, and the (absolutely horrendous) song "Let's Get Loud" by the girl group Suntribe went on to represent Estonia in Kyiv that year. Unsurprisingly, it didn't do too well - 20th place out of 25 in the semi-final. Fun fact: the singer of "Moonwalk" - Laura Põldvere - was also one of the members of Suntribe. So, while one could be moderately happy that she at least got to go to the contest, the fact that "Let's Get Loud" was a better song than "Moonwalk" in the eyes of the Estonian public, forever remains, to me, a sign of my compatriots’ utter lack of taste. #tunestr #2005 #Estonia #childhood #100ADayTilIDie

A Sunday sermon... excuse me, a Sunday #VLOG, featuring me reading a couple of pages the book "The Saviors of God" by Nikos Kazantzakis. Take it or leave it 🤠 #vlogstr

THEY DON'T THINK IT BE LIKE IT IS, BUT IT DO #memestr

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It had been way too long since I had one of those... 😋🤠

Happy Infinity Day! ♾️ 🤠 #coffeechain

I gave in to peer pressure... and recorded a #vlog 🤠 Reflecting a bit regarding the Baltic Honeybadger #BH2025 and @BTC HEL conferences and the importance of community and connection with likeminded people in the physical world. Also sharing some thoughts on the "you can just do stuff" meme. Enjoy! Or don't, IDGAF. Peace! 🧡

Looks like I got my mom to ditch the terrible plastic covering on this cutting board... it's the small wins 🤠 #healthstr

If you’re in a place that feels good and right in the present moment, it’s very easy to be lenient with your old self, to forgive your former self. Because, after all, whatever was before, brought you to this place that’s right and just and beautiful. If you’re not in such a place, if you’re not where you want to be, forgiving yourself (and the world) becomes increasingly difficult the further away you are from your ideal. In that case, it becomes of vital importance to shift your focus from what has been to what could be. From what you lack to what you have in abundance, and to find a way to transmute what you have to that which it could be. It’s useful to keep in mind that there is never a real lack of anything. All of it exists, somewhere, sometime. You can be the one who makes it manifest. If anybody can do it, it’s you.

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“The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao" = The goal which can be articulated is not the Divine goal = The success which can be measured is not the real success In other words... You don’t know what the best version of you, or your future, looks like. You don’t know which one of your insignificant actions or utterances starts, or is a part of, a butterfly effect with world-altering consequences. All you can really do is try to find out as much of it as you can, to the best of your abilities, and have faith.