ShortHairThug
2 Nov 2010
Life / My experience in Poland 15 years ago as an American trying to live and work there. [167]
Assuming I’ll take it at face value, which I very much doubt, I would have to say it’s rather a sad and tragic autobiography of a broken individual, you seem to be very disappointed at the reality life has dealt you. Someone who blames the world around him for the bitter taste of defeat and unfulfilled dreams. You never stated the reason for moving to Poland especially at that time, the time of turmoil, the time of harsh changes in the economy that had to be made at the time of transition from one system to the other and all the misery that those changes bring about. Any sane person would’ve taken his time before making that move (after all what’s so urgent?) and he would have carefully considered the reality. So one can safely assume that the motive was greed, the arrogance and inexperience of youth, after all that was the reasoning behind it, wasn’t it? What do those former commies know about business anyway? You definitely had advantage, a leg up so to speak or at least you thought so. You, hailing from a rich country where capitalist system has a long tradition and is prospering at the moment, coming to a country in transition, a country in the midst of economic chaos where locals are disillusioned, struggling to make ends meet therefor not even worthy to look at as a threat or even potential competition, you'll outfox them all. To a sly individual like yourself it was all so obvious at that time and so easy, you’ll strike it rich and with strong exchange rate to a dollar on your side you just can’t fail but failed you did, miserably. The more time that has passed without any success materializing the more disillusioned with life in general you’ve become. It’s a rather a sad story of an individual with feeble mind that harbors bitter feelings for the place where he has experienced his first and only defeat in life, a defeat so great that he will never be able to fully recover from or heal and he still can’t get over it. So you project your own failure on your surroundings instead of being honest with yourself as to who and what you are, you are just a Yankee failure who given the optimal environment in Poland as it was back than could not hack it, truly sad but not at all very original.
I regret that some will be offended, such as yourself, apparently, by a hard look in the 'historic mirror' of reality that was Poland during my time there.
Assuming I’ll take it at face value, which I very much doubt, I would have to say it’s rather a sad and tragic autobiography of a broken individual, you seem to be very disappointed at the reality life has dealt you. Someone who blames the world around him for the bitter taste of defeat and unfulfilled dreams. You never stated the reason for moving to Poland especially at that time, the time of turmoil, the time of harsh changes in the economy that had to be made at the time of transition from one system to the other and all the misery that those changes bring about. Any sane person would’ve taken his time before making that move (after all what’s so urgent?) and he would have carefully considered the reality. So one can safely assume that the motive was greed, the arrogance and inexperience of youth, after all that was the reasoning behind it, wasn’t it? What do those former commies know about business anyway? You definitely had advantage, a leg up so to speak or at least you thought so. You, hailing from a rich country where capitalist system has a long tradition and is prospering at the moment, coming to a country in transition, a country in the midst of economic chaos where locals are disillusioned, struggling to make ends meet therefor not even worthy to look at as a threat or even potential competition, you'll outfox them all. To a sly individual like yourself it was all so obvious at that time and so easy, you’ll strike it rich and with strong exchange rate to a dollar on your side you just can’t fail but failed you did, miserably. The more time that has passed without any success materializing the more disillusioned with life in general you’ve become. It’s a rather a sad story of an individual with feeble mind that harbors bitter feelings for the place where he has experienced his first and only defeat in life, a defeat so great that he will never be able to fully recover from or heal and he still can’t get over it. So you project your own failure on your surroundings instead of being honest with yourself as to who and what you are, you are just a Yankee failure who given the optimal environment in Poland as it was back than could not hack it, truly sad but not at all very original.
