Puka je slučajnost bila da sam na Fejsbuku nabasala na sjajan video o noćnom životu u Srbiji koji je izbacio mladić koji putuje svetom. Novopečeni novinar u meni se probudio i rešila sam da stupim u kontakt sa njim i da saznam njegovu priču.

Nisam ni slutila da ću ga zapravo uhvatiti dok je još uvek u srpskoj prestonici, a još manje da ćemo se iste večeri videti i da ću sa njim uraditi svoj prvi intervju, kao i da ću učestvovati u njegovom videu! Volela bih da mogu da vam prenesem svaki svoj pojedinačni utisak o ovom sjajnom momku, kao i da vam pričam koliko me je njegova perspektiva i pogled na svet oplemenila, ali bolje je da vam prenesem priču Nuseira Jasina, a da vi sami iz nje nešto lepo izvučete.

You can read this interview in English, too!

I had a totally unexpected pleasure of meeting and interviewing this amazing guy who travels the world and makes one minute videos of his life.

Little did I know that this encounter and his story will open my mind and give me a new perspective on things, as well as make me want to meet more people like him. AND that I will be featured in his video!

Kako si došao na ideju da napustiš posao i kreneš na put oko sveta?

Rođen sam u Izraelu, kao Palestinac i tamo sam odrastao. U Njujork sam se preselio zbog studija i završio sam Harvard pre dve godine. Zaposlio sam se, kao i svi drugi ljudi i radio sam u kompaniji PayPal kao softverski inženjer. Imao sam posao od devet do pet ili od deset do šest, tako da sam gledao u isti ekran osam sati svakoga dana. U jednom trenutku sam se zapitao šta ja to radim? Radim nečiji drugi posao, nešto do čega mi nije stalo! Rešio sam da dam otkaz. Naravno, to nije ništa strašno, ljudi daju otkaz stalno. Međutim, ja nisam želeo drugi posao, jer bi se verovatno sve svelo na isto.

Tako da sam rešio da razbistrim svoje misli i odem na put. Nisam želeo da budem kao ,,hipsteri” koji putuju samo da bi putovali. Želeo sam da iza mog putovanja stoji svrha. Ta svrha je da pronađem sebe, a to ću raditi tako što ću beležiti svoja putovanja, jer želim da mi život bude još zanimljiviji. Tako sam odlučio da svakoga dana mog života objavim jedan video u trajanju od jednog minuta, kako bi to moji prijatelji mogli da vide.

How did you get to the idea of quitting your job and travelling the world?

I’m from Israel, born and raised there, as a Palestinian. I then moved to New York to study for college and I graduated from Harvard two years ago. Got a job, like everybody else and I worked for PayPal, a tech company, as a software engineer. 9 to 5 or 10 to 6, so basically I stared at the screen for 8 hours every single day. And at some point I realised: ,,What the hell am I doing? I am doing someone else’s work, doing things I dont really care about. I need to quit.“ And everybody quits, right? It’s not a big deal to quit a job. But, I didn’t really want another job because it would be more of the same.

So I thought to myself: OK, I’m going to clear my mind, go travel, but I don’t want to be a hipster, travelling just for the sake of travel. I mean, that is totally fine but I’d like to have a purpose behind it. My purpose is to, sort of, ,,find myself“. The only way to travel with a purpose is to document my travels, because I want my life to be interesting, to be more fun. So I decided to put a one-minute video of every day of my life on my Facebook page for my friends to see.

Zašto video klipovi traju baš jedan minut?

Zato što sam mislio da, ako napravim video od dva minuta, niko neće kliknuti na njega. Bio sam zabrinut da moji prijatelji neće hteti da ih gledaju pa sam uprostvo stvar: jedan dan, jedan video, jedan minut. A onda sam napravio Fejsbuk stranicu.

Originalna zamisao je bila da putujem dva meseca, vratim se u SAD, osnujem start-up kompaniju ili apliciram za drugi posao – i to je to. Međutim, jako mi se dopalo i odlučio sam da produžim svoje putovanje – i sad sam na danu broj 135!

Why one minute videos?

Because  if you make a two minute video, nobody’s going to watch it. I was concerned that my friends wouldn’t watch it so I made it simple: one day, one video, one minute. And then I made a page. The original idea was to travel for two months, come back, maybe do a startup or apply for another job and that’s it. But then I started to really, really like it and I decided to extend my travels – so now I’m on day 135!

Koliko dugo još planiraš da putuješ?

Putovanje se možda uskoro završi. Želim da se vratim u Njujork i počnem da razmišljam o tome šta ću dalje. Želim da izgradim nešto na temeljima svoje Fejsbuk stranice, Nas Daily. Čak i kad ne budem putovao, nastaviću da pravim video klipove od jednog minuta. Malo se plašim da neću imati šta da snimam kada se tamo vratim, što će značiti da mi život nije zanimljiv. Zato nastavljam da putujem i nadam se da ću se, po povratku, suočiti sa tim svojim strahom. Voleo bih uspem da istrajem jednu čitavu godinu, tako da, čak i da odustanem posle toga, mogu reći sebi u starosti: ,,Bravo, uspeo si da sa 24 i 25 godina proputuješ celih 365 dana!”

For how long are you planning to go on with travelling?

Travelling might end soon. I want to go back to New York and start thinking about what I’m going to do with my life. I want to build something that came out of my page, Nas Daily. But I’m always going to keep making those videos. Even if I’m not travelling, I will continue making one minute videos. I am a little bit scared because, when I’m New York, doing nothing, I won’t have anything to make videos about. And when my videos aren’t interesting, that means my life isn’t interesting. That’s why I keep travelling. So when I get to New York I will probably face my fears. Presonally, I would like to do this for a whole year, so even if I fail I will be able to say: Look, even though you failed, I were able to do it for 365 days. So when I’m 90 I will look back and say: Wow, when you were 24 and 25 – you did it!

Tvoji snimci o Srbiji su postali pravi hit! Kakvi su bili tvoji utisci kada si stigao kod nas?

Mislim da o zemljama mogu suditi malo bolje nego drugi ljudi. Uz pomoć svoje stranice, ja upoznam na hiljade ljudi kroz svoj sadržaj. Na osnovu toga kako oni na njega reaguju ja dobijem ideju o tome kakvi su oni u svojoj zemlji. Na primer, kada sam bio u Grčkoj, nikome se nije svidela ideja da promovišem Grčku. U Nemačkoj isto tako. Nikoga nije bilo briga.

A onda sam došao u Srbiju i prvog dana – posle prvog videa – svi su se oduševili! Pozivali su me da dođem u Niš, u Novi Sad, da dođem da se družimo, predlagali mi da radim ovo ili ono. Bio sam veoma pozitivno iznenađen. I svi znaju engleski! Tako da sam dovoljno siguran da izgovorim da se Srbija jedna od top pet zemalja u kojima sam bio, i to zbog ljudi. OBOŽAVAM vaše ljude. Činjenica da pričam sa tobom i da ste zapravo čule i zainteresovale se za moj sadržaj je neverovatna. Ne dešava se svakoga dana.

What are your impressions about Serbia like?

I feel like I’m in position to judge countries better than other travellers because other travellers judge it only based on encounters with other people. When you go to a country for 10 days you don’t meen so many people. With Nas Daily I meet thousands of people through my content, and the way they react to my content, I get the idea who the people are in their contry. For example, when I was in Greece, nobody liked the idea that I’m promoting Greece. Same in Germany. Nobody cared.

When I arrived in Serbia, the first day – the first video I made – people went crazy! They were like ,,Come to Niš!“, ,,Come to Novi Sad!“, come hang out, do this, do that. I was very much surprised. And EVERYBODY can speak English. So I am confident enough to say that Serbia is in one of the top 5 countries I’ve ever been to, because of the people. I LOVE your people. Here I am, talking to you – you actually care about my content, you responded well to it, you invited me to places. That doesn’t happen every day.

Video koji se naročito dopao našoj publici je o noćnom životu u Beogradu. Kakve su tvoje impresije?

Dovoljno govori činjenica da sam od četiri noći koje sam proveo ovde, izašao tri. Bio sam na Riveru i Fristajleru, ta dva splava su mi se najviše dopala. Ja inače nisam tip za žurke, jer svako veče moram da montiram snimke, pa je moj socijalni život poprilično ugrožen zbog toga. Međutim, ovde tome nisam mogao da odolim. Mislim, to je BEOGRAD. Oduševljen sam noćnim životom u ovom gradu! Fascinantno mi je što vas ni kiša ne sprečava da izađete i kvalitetno se provedete.

Everybody loved your video about the nightlife in Belgrade. Did you like it?

I went out 3 nights, out of my 4 nights here. I went to River and Freestyler, those are my favorite ones. I’m not much of a party guy because I have to edit videos every night, but I couldn’t resist it in Serbia! I mean, come on, it’s Belgrade. I love the nightlife here!

Koje je tvoje najbolje iskustvo u Srbiji do sad?

Ovaj intervju! Šalim, se – izvini! 😀 Treći dan mi je bio najbolji, zato što sam išao na splav Hot Mess. Bila je žurka pored bazena, sunčan dan, dobra muzika, sjajni ljudi svuda oko mene… jednostavno savršeno. A noć pre toga sam slavio olimpijsku medalju vaterpolista sa Srbima. I to je bilo sjajno! Šetali smo i odjednom su svi počeli da igraju i skaču. Ispostavilo se da su imali dobar razlog za to.

What was the best experience you had in Serbia so far?

This interview! No, I’m kidding. Sorry. 😀 My last day was the best, because I went to Hot Mess. There was a pool party, sunny day, great people around… it’s just amazing. And the night before that I celebrated victory in waterpolo with Serbs. That was also great! We were walking down the street and suddenly  people started dancing and it turned out that it was because of the waterpolo. 🙂

I za kraj nam reci šta misliš o Srbima i o našoj zemlji?

Što se tiče Srba, mislim da su možda malo više nacionalisti. To može biti i dobro i loše. Sjajno je zato što vam je stalo do sopstvene zemlje i kulture, ali može biti loše kada to znači da voliš Srbiju, a mrziš sve druge. U 2016. ova osećanja ne bi trebalo da budu toliko ekstremna.

Vi volite turiste. Pričate sa njima. Cene su niske, hrana preukusna, svi govore engleski – što je stvarno impresivno. Voleo bih da više ljudi shvati koliko je Srbija sjajna, koliko je lepa i koliko su ljudi srdačni i puni dobrodošlice.

What do you think of Serbians and Serbia?

As for Serbians, I think that they are a bit nationalistic. That’s good and bad. It’s great because you care about your country and your culture, but it can be bad when it makes you love Serbia and hate everybody else. In 2016, these feelings shouldn’t be so extreme.

You guys like tourists. You talk to them. Also, prices are cheap, everybody speaks English, which is a huge plus, and I wish that more people could realize how awesome Serbia is and how beautiful it is, and how welcoming the people are.

Sjajne video snimke iz celog sveta možete pogledati na njegovoj Fejsbuk stranici – Nas Daily.

Check his awesome videos on his Facebook page – Nas Daily.

Vukica Popović

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