What inspires me?
Whenever someone asks me what inspires me, I always think of scouts. The energy and
motivation I get after just an hour spent with my scout friends are priceless. It gives young
people an opportunity to create things they want, an opportunity to act, to be responsible,
to teach younger scouts everything from first aid to techniques of surviving in nature. Scouts
teach independence, solidarity and we fight against stereotypes, they teach you to be
responsible to yourself, community and transcendent (it can be either god or just things you
believe in, you can be any religion to be a scout). My list of things I want to do as a scout is
getting longer and longer every day. It contains things such as go stargazing all the way to
attend specialist courses or the ones for leaders (woodbadge) and attend international
camps (this year I am (hopefully) going to Poland).
But scouting didn’t fit any of the options. Few days ago I was painting with watercolors (now
when I have time) and I decided to paint lake where we camp in the summer. The first
photograph I saw on internet was this one from Manca Korelc (credit the artist!) and I
painted it. This is how I beat a serious disease called campsickness (=taborotožje) while I am
stuck at home.