I was born in Athens, the city that gave birth to democracy, and raised on the beautiful island of Cyprus. Greece—the country that taught the world how to live, think, and have fun—has shaped my view of life from the very beginning.
Growing up in a home full of books, with both parents as bibliophiles and my father a high school teacher, I developed a deep love for reading early on. Encyclopedias and library books were my windows to the world. By thirteen, I had fallen in love with history, reading the memoirs of Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle. By seventeen, I had worked my way through every book Jules Verne had written.
After high school, I served my country for 26 months before moving to Patra, Greece, to study computer engineering. I earned a Master’s degree in Computer Engineering and Informatics and began working in the Informatics Department of the local university hospital. During that time, I also rediscovered my love for reading—and began writing.
In 2004, I completed a historical novel that remains unpublished. For a while, that felt like a failure. But it marked the beginning of something much more meaningful.
In 2011, I quit smoking cold turkey. It was one of the hardest but most rewarding decisions of my life. I also returned to running and managed to lose 26 kilograms (57 pounds). Since then, I’ve completed three marathons, numerous half-marathons, and many shorter races. Running didn’t just improve my fitness—it gave me clarity, discipline, and perspective.
In 2013, I adopted a plant-based lifestyle. What started as a practical decision to improve my running performance became a deeply transformative 10-year journey. From 2013 to 2023, veganism reshaped not only my health but my understanding of ethics, nutrition, and resilience. Combined with my weight loss experiments, philosophical inquiries, and the mental strength gained through running and quitting smoking, these experiences changed me—physically, mentally, and spiritually.
All of this laid the foundation for my newest venture: a blog focused on critical thinking, problematization, and political communication analysis. I believe that the clarity of thought, skepticism of easy answers, and courage to question dominant narratives I now explore in writing would not have been possible without the trials and transformations of my past decade.
In a nutshell, the person I am today—and the work I do now—was made possible by the path I walked: quitting smoking, running through failure and fatigue, losing excess weight, embracing a plant-based life, and reflecting deeply on what it all means.
Today, I continue to run, hike, cycle, camp, play basketball, take photos, and—above all—ask questions. And that, in essence, is what this blog is all about.
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