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Head of International Activities, Public Relations and Information
What do you do?
I am responsible for covering the area of European projects, handling information and public relations for Youth Centre Velenje and the Youth Cultural Club eMCe plac, managing social media, leading the eMCe plac awareness program, acting as the PR manager for the Festival of Youth Culture Kunigunda, and serving as the vice president of the Commission for Youth Issues.
My favourite memories from childhood and youth are recalled, narrated, and relived more frequently now :) .
My first associations with youth are blank pages, exploration, and blossoming.
The time I spent in my youth was much more intimate; we didn't grow up so exposed to everyone.
The time young people live in today pays too little attention to content and bombards with information. It dictates a fast pace and offers a lot but gives too little. At the same time, the whole world is more accessible, with almost no barriers, endless possibilities, and opportunities.
As a teenager, the hardest thing for me was wanting to be someone else.
From that time, I miss the spontaneous, often crazy, thoughtless and unnecessary, impulsive, sometimes even dangerous decisions, which, fortunately, always ended well and are now a precious memory. Today I am much more reasonable. It wouldn't be so bad if the wild side and instincts took over more often.
With my friends, I liked to spend days on the street, on playgrounds and meadows, basically outside, in freedom, under the open sky, with the wind and big bows in my hair, scrapes and bruised knees, a ball, and rackets.
In my teenage years, we hung out in the park, sat in a circle, talked, had a drink, and blabbered, went to summer festivals and concerts, fell in love, and explored emotions, and our identity. Subcultures and the feeling of belonging were more obvious. During our student years, we looked for cheap flights and squatted with strangers – stories for a whole book!
I liked to (but I shouldn't have) do all the things I thought I had to do as a teenager. And I probably really shouldn’t have done, haha. But always in moderation, if not with wisdom. I knew how to say no, and societal pressure regarding anything didn't really convince me.
Today, I keep myself young by being surrounded by young people, who are an inspiration, a motivation, but I've never really lost playfulness or mischievousness, and I let it show.
Today, I would tell my younger self that you will pull through! You will find yourself, and everything will be alright. Don’t worry too much; you are never truly alone, or rather, you’re not alone when you are ready to not be alone.
What I like most about working with young people is their ability to not take themselves as seriously as adults do. They teach us just as much as we teach them, see things in their own way, and are unburdened by the past and tradition. They want to do things differently, in their way, giving us space for growth and change – for the better.