"It takes a moment to become a hero, but it takes a whole life to become a good man"

                In modern world everybody wants to be some kind of a hero. There are many influences from media and heroes from movies and books become our role models. That, of course, has positive effect on our behavior but it takes much more to be a good person.

                Who is a good man? How do we define him? One action of kindness doesn't make you a good person. But it could make you a hero. Heroes can often live on their old glory. They are considered good for one good action they did but there are more sides to it than just that. A good person show he's worthy his title by his attitude. He respects other people's opinions even if he doesn't agree. You are not a good man just by doing good things. Many of us do this kind of actions for our own selfish reasons. For an example, you helped someone with math because he promised you money. Yes, you helped someone but you did it because you had profit in doing it. Profit doesn't have to be material. Many famous and rich people  donate money to charity but they do it for fame and reputation. If you give somebody a present for no special occasion you do it for appreciation and that good feeling you get when you see somebody's happiness. But you can tolerate these selfish reasons. If you live your life helping people for these reasons we can consider you a good person. Living like that could be exhausting. It takes a lifetime to prove you are worthy the title. But if you do good things just to prove you're a good person, it's also selfish and it is questionable if that makes you a good person.

                To sum up, it's very positive to do good things for any reason, no matter how selfish it can be. But to be a good man takes much more. Actually it depends on how much of selfishness you tolerate.

Film review

Limitless

                Limitless (2001) is a film starring Bradley Cooper made by director Neil Burger. It's Sci-Fi Thriller and it won ASCAP award and was nominated for 6 others.

                The main character is Eddie Morra, a struggling writer who, with help of special pills, becomes successful businessman and financial wizard. The pills allow you to access 100 % of your brain. But, as every other pill, it has side effects. If you don't take one every now and then you will get symptoms as nausea, strong headache and you can barely function. The same happened to our main character Eddie, who is now exposed to a lot of danger.

                The acting was done amazingly by Bradley Cooper who evoked Eddie perfectly. There can also be found great, famous actors such as Robert de Niro. Soundtrack of the film is also great. It creates even more tension and keeps everything interesting.

                In conclusion, Limitless is an interesting movie and you won't feel bored for one second. I recommend the film to everyone who love thrillers and drama. If you enjoyed films like Side Effects or Silver Linings Playbook, you will love this one too!

My village

Gornji Kuti

Library in Gornji Kuti

I live in Gornji Kuti. It is a small village that belongs to the township Brod Moravice of which is 1 kilometer far. It has about 60 villagers. It used to have a lot of animals as sheep, goats, cows etc. but now chickens, cats and dogs are only animals you can find right now. It has a 70 years old library with over 7000 books what is a lot for such a small place. Except the library, it has one of the oldest houses on this area.

If you go a little bit south you will come to Brod Morvice. There is primary school in which now go about 50 kids from 4 villages including Brod Moravice. There used to be 4 regional schools in 4 villages but now even this one is in danger of closing.  On the center of Brod Moravice is an old linden which became a symbol of the village. Village has a church dedicated to St. Nicholas. The township in total has 12 churches and chapels. 

 

Church of St. Andrew

Church of. St. Nicholas

One of the sacral monuments is a big stone signal pole Piljdak. It was used in the time of the Ottomans as a signal pole in which fire would burn in order to signal of Turks. It was also used as a precursor of mailboxes. In village called Moravička sela is located the oldes house in this area. House "Delač" is built in 17^th century.

House "Delač"

 

Piljdak

Residents of Brod Motavice like to keep their cultural heritage so they organize a lot of rural partys and folklores. Everybody has orchard and the most represented fruit are aples and plums so they got its festivals. On "Plums day" there is a festival in hunting lodge "Lazica". People gather around and bake plum cakes, share recipes, dance and have fun. Women make plum jam and men make a drink with a high percentage of alcohol called rakija. Then it is judged by a committee. The best jams and rakija take the prices.
In the school teachers organize a ethno group which keep cultural heritage by dancing old, almost forgotten, dances and recite on the local speech. 

Kids dance in national costumes

 

As I spend less and less time in it because I every day travel to Ogulin in school, I almost forgot how beautiful my village is, but when I think of it I realize that it is gorgeous, peaceful, quiet place perfect for relaxation.

Pictures found on google search.

Mobile phones

Can you imagine the world without mobile phones? They didn't mean to us so much in the past, but now everyone got one and we use it for almost everything.

Mobile phones have so much to offer. For example, except calling and text messages, you can play games, play music, it has calculator, calendar and now you can even make documents similar to the ones you do on your computer. But the fact is that mobile phones are still the most used for checking the time. Secondly, it's small and you can always have it in your pocket or purse. If you ever get in trouble, you can call home somebody to pick you up. And finally, to some people it's very important to work. E-mails are already old fashion so people who work in big companies and corporations have to have a phone for work on which they will get all the messages and calls necessary for job.

            On the other hand, mobile phones run our lives. Similar to computer, more and more people become addicted to it. To some people a day without a mobile phone is like the end of the world. Human race may become slaves of modern technology. Also, instead of hanging around in the park with their friends teenagers look at the little screens of their mobile phones for hours. The normal conversations will become extinct. It's all messages, facebook and tweeter now. And it infects grammar and spelling. No one says "I'll be right back" anymore, we just write brb and everybody knows what we meant. But if we start to use phrases like that in face to face conversations nobody will understand us. The biggest problem with mobile phones is that they infect our health. Radiation is so big it can cause sterility in both sexes.So be careful. Your phone doesn't always has to be in your pocket.

            To summarize, mobile phones are as dangerous as useful. We need it for normal life in present but we need to learn where is that line so we don't become addicted or it starts infect our health.