Nihilist's Laboratory

I like programming. One is constantly making the world easier by solving yet another problem.

I enjoy listening to music; It soothes the soul.

I love watching films and series. My favourite genre is Horror.

But most of all, i like taking walks.

I Despise football (in general), Greek music (my being Greek and stuff), as well as Classic/Rock.

For the most part, I am, frankly... an "open book".

I make a point of being crystal clear about who I am and what I want. There is no room for misunderstanding when both parties know what they need of each other.

While compromise is an integral part of many things (a successful relationship for example), and as much as I believe in mutual compromises, I shall never make one when it comes to the qualities that define me. 

I've never smoked a cigarette so as to "be cool"; I’ve never embraced club-music just because "everyone listen to it" or as a mean to "fit in"; and I will never compromise anything that makes me: me – unless, of course, I am given to understand that it will make me a better person. I know who I am, I’ve spent countless days contemplating, and I choose to be true to myself.

I'm not secretive. If someone asks me where I am, or what I’m doing at the moment, I’m not the person to come up with some sort of generic generalisation like most. If I'm working, I'll say what I'm working on and If I'm playing or watching a film, I'll also go ahead and say it. I don't get why I should lie or avoid the question…

I acknowledge both my worst qualities, and my best as well, and I have no problem discussing either. If my being able to mention both the former and the latter, somehow makes me vain, then by all means...I'm a vain person.

Some might say I tell too much; crossing a line or disrespecting people on occasion. I have two things to tell those people:

1) Respect is earned by a million different ways. It is not inherited, however, by either a status or age.

2) One's errors is a paper written in one's back. As I love people making me aware of my own, thus helping me become better, I feel obligated to at least extend the same courtesy! If one is so vain as to thing one is beyond flaws, then sorry, but joke's on you - feel free to be as angry as you want to be towards me.

That is not to say I am one to perster or contantly complain. I'm not without tact. That is just to say I am the kind of a person who will respectfully inform you if something is bothering me or if i feel something is not okay. Not to do it would be tantamount to lying on my part... or at least that is how i feel about it.

As always, there is reciprocity here too. I am no magician nor mind-reader. If something I said or done is bothering you, please, do not keep me in the dark.

I don't like people making assumptions about me; hence I make no assumption about others.

I scorn lies; ergo I am always truthful, even if a situation is difficult or tricky.

I demand the absolute truth of others. There is no half-truth. Whether for a professional, platonic or any relationship, a lie is a deal-breaker to me.

I am a perfectionist. When I do something, I have to do it to the full of my potential by committing and dedicating myself to it. However, to do my absolute best, i need sufficient time; not much, not a little, but sufficient. i.e. give me enough time, and you'll be glad you did.

(And for those who are quick to judge and prone to misinterpreting one's saying, please take notice on the word choice - "my absolute best" is not even remotely similar to "the absolute best". That is, I’m not saying i am delusional; never have I claimed i can do the best... what I say, ...what anyone can ask of someone, is to do "one's best". And that's what i aim for)

When i have to do a project, my pattern is to work night and day until it is finished. I devote myself to it, and I’m only happy when it meets the highest of my expectations as well as the highest of others' expectations. If you want someone who gives his best, look no further.

Although I usually work best solo, i can communicate, function well and be of great assistance in a group as well.

Don't try to take advantage of me. It is a general truth that it never ends well for either party. Most of all though, you don't have to, for our relationship will thrive and be beneficial to us both, only when we are both utterly honest.

Learning is a never-ending process I adore, and by extension, what i don't know, i shall learn.

It is imperative that we all remember: As sentient beings, conversation is the key to tackling any possible problem. We ought to use it.

* I hear people saying "I am proud to be a Greek" or "I am proud to be an American" or whatever nationality.

This is so wrong, on so many levels... and sad too. If one is to be proud of something, one ought to be proud of something one did, chose, or at the very least, had a say in.

How can one be proud to have been born on a specific place, as one had no say or control over the fact? As far as I am concerned, it is far less embarrassing for one to admit there is nothing really to be proud about oneself, than resorting to such preposterous statements.

* I honestly fail to comprehend this seemingly insatiable tendency of people to divide. Whether consciously or not, again and again they separate people into groups and subgroups, whilst the members of each subgroup maintain that they are better than the rest.

Divided into Greek people, American, English, Turkish or Albanian. Divided still into women and men, and again into black, white, yellow or whatever. Divided yet again into tall or short, fat or thin, nerdy or athletic.

The worst part of it all, is that the roots are planted from School; enforced by the educational system through brainwashing the, by definition, vulnerable and susceptible children into discriminating and hating the different. By making us sing various songs that curse and make fun of other countries and peoples for wars that happened before our time. 

Nobody is born hating.. We are taught to hate! Yet, is all critical thinking extinct? Can't people, THINK for themselves?

Heraclitus (Ηράκλειτος, a philosopher), born 535 BC said that "The only constant, is change". Isn't it about time we changed the way we think? Isn’t it high time we started thinking and questioning everything instead of just being manipulated and let ourselves be a mouthpiece of others?

More than 2500 years ago, the word Critical Thinking (deriving from the Greek word "Κριτική") existed. I cannot wrap my mind around the fact that 2500 years later, we, people of this earth, still have a hard time using it. I am no better or worse than anyone on the globe for being Greek, nor for being Caucasian, nor for anything else that I am or I am not. We are all equal; we are all people, and most importantly, we all have the same potential given the same environment, way of life and education. Let's make it so that everyone can enjoy what we take for granded.

Scientist:       Michio Kaku

Artist/Band:   Dark Tranquillity

TV Series:      Tie between "Doctor Who" and "The big Bang Theory"

Character:     Tie between "Rose Tyler" and "Clara Oswald"

Films:              Tie between "Nightmare on Elm Street" and "Queen of the Damned"

Games:           The "Diablo" Universe

Activities:       Walking

Novel:              Harry Potter

Book:               Physics of the Future

Don't be shocked that people die; be surprised you're still alive!