Zoran Marić

b.: 21 April 1971, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina (Yugoslavia)
official residence: St Andrews, Scotland (United Kingdom)

thanks to the decency of the genes and my irrepressible spirit, am a versatile multitasker imbued with an unrepentant joie de vivre and infinite passion for sounds, words, food and drink, sea, people, and various activities thereof; should most of the pertinent rumours be heeded, i also happen to be pretty good at and even useful in those.
more than anything, however, am a person. regardless of the plausibility of any given verisimilitude of my talents and abilities, i strive primarily to nurture my humanity. one of my mottoes is "even if the world should crumble before me, i would not fear," and this verse (bene facis, Horatius) sums up my mentality and its own tribulations and triumphs. equally, this outlook can be adduced as an explanation of my conviction that nothing is more resilient and nothing more capable of Good and Beautiful than the human soul. thus, my serenity – the sceptical should bear in mind that true happiness is ever unconditional – is not based on or subscribed to half-baked notions, clichés and platitudes that many would draw on in order to present themselves as smart, virtuous, spiritual, and generally awe-inspiring. indeed and in deed; claptrap such as i live life to the full, i am what i am, and similar inanities represent a distressingly inadequate exercise in self-deception and display, in fact, nothing other than masturbation of one's ego...and nothing prevents the soul from growing in depth, nothing diminishes Good or impoverishes Beautiful, in more prompt and harmful a manner than self; one's own ego.
gathering dates, rather than days, am more mature than my mind and younger than any stage i may be found in. an eternal boy and an old sage in one, i perceive life as a children's game in which nothing, especially me, is to be taken seriously except Honesty and Integrity.
a word of warning to the self-righteous: readily carrying and looking after other people's smiles, am a cardiovascular robin hood; i shamelessly steal the power of baddies' hearts, transform it into tenderness, which is the ultimate strength, and this i gift to the unduly heartbroken.

anything else, apart from happiness in the eye of a child, and anything better than love — i know not.