What is the meaning of the life ?

XXI century and still no one knows

but honestly - being goodhearted and useful to society. "Meditations" from Marcus Aurelius are valuable lecture on subject.

How are things in Poland?

I know on this site it might sound controversial, but the recent decisions of our government (which is, well strict right wing, conservative, catholic and well, a bit homophobic) - the first true benefits for poor families and various froom of social help and raising the minimum wage - I consider them as very positive.

Saw your journal and stopped by your home page and WOW, I've seen in real life in the last week, so many of the artists and pieces of art you have listed right now. Spent time with my friends  Aleutia-the-Weasel and  kalahari at a small artists get together in their room along with  foxheart.windtail who did the "Down a little further" piece in your recent favorites, (Ummm, he's my son btw. :). I also spoke to  kacey and  ShinigamiGirl about doing commissions and both said yes. Then also listed in your recent favorites is my own "Armoring Up" which  Aleutia-the-Weasel is trading me out of when finished. There is also 3 other icons on your home page of wonderful artists who all have done commissions for my tigress portfolio. :)

Anyway, you wanted a question: Have you met Kalahari? I know he has traveled out your way.

Cheers
Teiirka

It's nice to know that my artwork is well, shared and gives you all joy.

No, I've never met Kal irl. He was in Poland and Czech republic, to visit and travel with her ex and they met with one fur.
I live in rather remote and not so friendly part of the country. Hope we will meetin future.

I don't meet with furs usually, I don't socialize with the fandom, I have work, finishing art degree and various obligations, so almost no time for being social.

How long do your pieces take?
Do you use construction lines or free-hand it?
How did you come to find/why watch me?

Some of the just an hour. Some - many days, because I have to wait - I see various flaws of the picture after certain amout of time.

Depends, I use construction lines and reference photos, but I experiment with free-hand.

I found you through Aleutia's shoutbox.

Interesting!

Any questions for me?

do you serve in the army?

Ah, apologies, did not see the notice!
Yes, I am an infantryman, currently serving in an RTO/ratello(radio telephone operator) position.

That's cool. I anted join uniformed services (good salaries and stable jobs in Poland) but I have poor health, I'm on disability status.
Tfw half of my family served/serves.

Do you wanted always to join the army? Or you did this from practical reasons (healthcare, money, job, college)?

Apologies; I'm actually out on field exercises right now(and will be for another week)! Brief respite back in the rear so I have time and cell phone reception.

Ahh, gotcha, that's a bummer. Reason for everything I say though; just gotta find out where it takes you/what other doors are waiting to be opened.

My father was military, and I think he had high hopes of me joining up; I was certainly the best candidate of my siblings to join, but he passed before I took the notion seriously. Initially it was the Air Force, like him, but I think I wanted to do something completely different, and so I flung caution to the wind and went to the one MOS(job type) I repeatedly told my family I'd never do; infantry. Had a few misteps on the way to getting to where I am vs where I aimed, but reason for everything, and I think I'm doing all right for where I am right now.

Some practical reasons (it'd be a little helpful leap out of the house, healthcare, taking me somewhere different; I now reside on the opposite side of the country, and boy is it beautiful here), and some silly reasons (I'm generally healthy, and have friends with health issues keeping them from their dreams of enlisting, the romantical idea of being a soldier/serving my country, wanting to drop myself into a completely different kind of atmosphere; academic to well...army life), I could go on with my many considerations.

In a way I shunned my original course of media production to do this, but only in the immediate; One of my longterm goals is to experience many different things, see things from different perspectives to help round me out as a person and help make me the best I can be(also help develop headworlds; this one outdoors-based headworld I've been building the last few years is benefitting greatly from this current stage in my life), so I'm taking as much as I can from it before I move onto the next stage, whatever that may entail. It's interesting how small the world can seem when you move around a little...

A note on serving; it's got its moments, but to balance it out it has a lot of frustrating and infuriating times where you have to deal with inept personnel and have no choice(rank, position)...At least where I am, in the grunt world. I can't be mad at it all the time though; it's a product of the infantry culture and the people (a lot of guys straight out of highschool, still growing up, young and dumb, or never having worked in the civilian world.).

I apologize for the word vomit!

No prob.
As for me, I got grad degree, so theoretically in uniformed ervice I could be eligible for officer course. So you know, that's a bummer. I trei to hide my ailment but just trivial medical checkup and hearing with stetoscope revealed everything so nope.

Ah such is life, with its twists and turns; to that end, we must make the best with what we've got!

As a degree holder before joining and eligible for officer, I do wonder a lot where I'd be right now had I done that instead. I don't regret my choice here(vastly different jobs), and it's not out of the picture quite yet, but it does beg to question my curiosity quite a bit from time to time.