Damjan Zlatanovski

My name is Damjan Zlatanovski, from North Macedonia.

Rilke said: Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final, and I’m not sure if anything could be more true.

Since I was a kid I’ve been aware that as a human being I’m a subject of constant change, development, and upgrading. In my mind I’ve always had a painted picture of the person I want to become, and every day I try to live up to that expectation. As a person I want to believe that I’m loyal, reliable, self-aware, and empathetic, for I believe these are some of the best qualities someone could have. My character is a confluence of different aspects of my everyday life: in public I’m friendly, outgoing, flexible, and open-minded; in the professional setting I’m hardworking, creative, eager, persistent, a good leader, and of course professional. I believe that to be successful one must be profound and ambitious, and to make it work in my description I try to find hobbies that will influence me, but also give me pleasure. I love painting and that’s why I’ve opened my small art shop. I enjoy reading, writing poems, essays, and short stories as well. One of my biggest passions is theatre and cinema which I enjoy from the comfort of the audience. I love the feeling of being helpful and helping other people; one of my favourite ways of helping the future is my greenways, because I believe we can only have a future if we are environmentally conscious. I’m many things, in many different days, but at the end of every day I am just a dreamer, hoping for a better tomorrow.