In February 2009 I was a 21-year-old student of Warsaw School of Economics. I moved to a different role two years later; today I work at a bank
controlled by one of bigger financial groups in Europe (fortunately not repolonised), striving to keep a low profile and remain anonymous.
Despite coming of age, I have not raised my own family yet. In the meantime
the family I hail from has gone less populous after deceases of my paternal
grandparents.
I set up the blog slightly more than a month after a break-up with a
girlfriend. Today, my tenure of being single lasts 7 months (and despite keeping
up appearances, it still feels traumatic).
In 2009 and for several years later I lived with my parents, then rented
two flats, finally I purchased my own one and after overcoming all tribulations
(cards stacked against me several times on the remont front) I should move in
to my dwelling in March.
Politics-wise… Ten years ago Poland was under the rule of Platforma
Obywatelska, the president was late Lech Kaczyński. Today his twin brother
keeps a tight rein on Poland and will refuse to give in. The autumnal election
will be the battle for the future of Poland.
Economy-wise… 10 years ago the world was in the doldrums of the economic
crisis, with stock markets hitting many years’ low and Polish currency being
the weakest in 21st century. Today several developed economies are facing
threats of recession, while Poland again resists economic contraction, however
for different reasons than a decade ago.
Society-wise… In early 2009 I did not know the word smartphone, which
revolutionised not only technology (cell phone, computer, camera, video camera,
clock, dictaphone, organiser, radio, mp3 player, calculator, torch, map crammed
into a tiny device) but also marked a negative change in interhuman
communication – made people stare at their smartphones instead of talking to
one another. Sadly…
For the sake of statistics, most often viewed posts of the decade are:
1. Black swan theory, inadvertently published exactly two days before
the theoretically unimaginable disaster.
2. Freaks of the dicts – linguistic puzzles were one of my passions
around that time. I believe once the remont is over I will need to take the
trouble to refresh my English, whose command has definitely seen better days (using
it every day at work, yet reading far too little, which has negative impact on vocabulary
resources – lose it or use it! Err… oddly enough, I observe the same has
happened to my Polish)
3. Oscar and lady in pink – a review of a poignant book, reminds my remont-related
quandaries appear miniscule when confronted with an innocent child passing away
slowly.
4. Pushed around, ridiculed, degraded – an analysis of part of current
ruling party’s electorate. Moherowe berety are no longer a hard-core voters of
PiS, yet my to-do-list should contain a study into who the mindset of most avid
believers of the first property developer in Poland.
5. The banker’s role from bank employee’s perspective – a response to a
post written by a fellow long-distance blogger whose tenure will always be
nearly two years longer than mine. Michael, thank you for inspiration and for being
the only one from the Polish-English blogosphere, thriving in 2009-2011 and
then waning, who has not dropped off.
There was a time when I was planning to give up on blogging on the 10th anniversary.
Today, despite headwinds, I am determined to keep it up, however in a while I
will need to abandon the predictable formula of one post each Sunday and bring
in some element of irregularity.
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