Personal growth
Thank God for this life.
Thank God for this life. For the opportunity to be here, with so much still possible.
VALON ASANI / ENGLISH
Writing on love, lived values and Albanian life
Love well. Live your values. Carry our roots forward. Those are the three questions behind my writing, whether a piece begins with a relationship, a company or a moment between Kosovo and Switzerland.
Choose a subject below. The short video notes preserve the original moment; longer essays explore what it means and what we can do. These are personal experiences and opinions, with sources for factual claims.
Relationships
The lock is still there. Are they still talking?
In Hamburg, I looked at all those love locks and had one question: how many of these couples no longer even speak to each other?
Personal growth
Whose advice are you building your life around?
Don’t take advice from someone whose life you would not want to live. That is the blunt version of what I shared.
Personal growth
Since when are we too small to ask a question?
A reply to my Berlin airport video turned a conversation about an airport into something much more personal.
Europe Tour
Hamburg: 10,000 steps and a little sport
Hamburg. 10,000 steps and a little sport. Green around us, water beside us.
Europe Tour
Aldi nostalgia in Berlin: a small stop, an old memory
An Aldi stop in Berlin, and suddenly the 1990s are back. Who remembers shopping with their parents and getting a pudding as a treat?
Europe Tour
Goodbye Berlin, moin Hamburg: the next leg of the trip
Tschüss, Berliner Schnauze. Moin, Hamburg.
Europe Tour
Welcome to Hamburg: not even for thirty seconds
Welcome to Hamburg. No, you cannot park there. Not even for thirty seconds. :)
Europe Tour
Berlin, 00:18: the work behind the trip
Berlin, 00:18. A laptop open inside the vehicle. I tagged Edon alongside the reminder: success does not come by chance.
Europe Tour
Berlin airport: the long distance between a plan and an opening
At Berlin airport, I used Windows XP and Windows 10 to make a point about how long a project can take. A plan is announced. Years…
Business & technology
700,000 international users. And still, a decision to focus.
dua had grown beyond the Albanian community. The next question was who each brand should serve.