A Month of Travelling Last month I spent travelling across Russia. To the places where I grew up, where I studied, and where I've started the path that I'm following right now. To get the complete picture, one need to know that 6 months ago I moved to Australia. And I say nothing if I say that I forgot how Russian mentality hits you right in the face when you cross the border. And surprisingly it wasn't something bad for me, it was something so close and so familiarly bizzare. The picture outside of your hotel room can be quite faded. But the people and their energies is something that makes Russia, Russia. I remember just staying near a subway station exit with the one goal — to absorb as much as I can from those people. This trip was a great way to change usual flow of events and get a refresher. Working for a long time on one thing, or in one domain can give you an amazing opportunities to become a professional in the field. However, in the meantime, the wall can grow higher and higher separating you from the freedom of creativity that you had at the time when you used to just write that silly piece of software for yourself, trying out completely new activity of your entire life. It's funny how easy it is to build the great wall around yourself and start to wither under the pressure of routine tasks. And when you finally have the time and the space and the headspace to switch gears and to do something completely different from your day-to-day tasks. You're just numb. You're just can't. It took me couple of weeks to just let the thoughts about changing something freely move inside my brain. And I started looking around.