(My Life – from my subjective point of view) Besides my cognitive passions and obsessive desire for personal development, I remembered a beautiful lecture by my school principal in West Berlin, thanks to which I never forgot what the passion for life itself is. ◆ I remember that maybe in seventh grade, just before the holidays, the principal from Conrad Grundschule came to our class to give his last lecture. He said something then that I remembered for the rest of my life. He was already an older man then, walking with crutches. He stood uncertainly at the blackboard, but he said in his calm, resonant voice that he would share something with us that we should remember for a long time. ◆ He said that in life a race awaits us for education, for money, for a career and a million other things that will seem important to us. And we will devote our time, our energy and attention to that. He said that it will seem to us that we are immortal. And that along the way we will lose something that we will not notice at all, and we will lose it irretrievably and mercilessly: the most beautiful years of our life. He said that it is a short interval, contained between the 17th and 26th year of life, only 9 years. He asked us to remember those years. And not necessarily to give up intensive education or earning, but that we should always try to reconcile life itself in that period with plans for the future. ◆ Therefore in all my later life I tried to take care not only of realizing the passion for learning and development, but also of having a sense of the fullness of life, as far as it would be possible. That is why I so willingly experimented, that is why I tried so boldly many things in life, sometimes on the edge of my capabilities. ◆ I trained martial arts in various forms: Aikido, Wushu, Hungar. ◆ I signed up for horseback riding, which I continued occasionally for many years. It was something more than sport, it was building a relationship with a wonderful animal. Lidka Mikołajczyk encouraged me to do this, with whom I was intensively friends at school. First I went with her to a solemn Christmas Eve at the riding club, and then there were already regular lessons in the manege, in the field.