Boris Popovic

Find out how a firefighter :

- met the Pope and almost crippled him in 1996
- reached almost 200 kg (440 pounds)
- broke a chair in front of the bishop
- policeman predicted "No love for you"
- ripped off the car door
- The pancakes are not burnt, I just turned them around too late!
- Saint Boris of Maribor, the patron of beer and laughter
- No, no, no! I am just lending you my firemen!
- I went for a walk ...in underwear and shoes only
- Bud Spencer fell on Terence Hill
- The man of speed wanted to do everything, but he missed everything


The next pages are the result of life optimism and playful humor. They are like a chain of events and experience, in which a human being recognizes him. Also more dramatic stories that have already become adventures finally grow into grains of wisdom – oh, would they sprout in the hearts of readers and grow to the fruits. Then we can enjoy them and keep strewing them generously like the author.

It addresses us in a calm narrative language that is given to those who respect their cultural roots. It opens a clear view on personal experience, sometimes already with some intimate details. It allows us to accompany it through rise and fall that are so much humanly grounded as well as surrounded by a veil of supernatural optimism. Sometimes, it surprises us in a positive way with the course and denouement of the story. It addresses some subjects again and brightens them always from the other side. Step by step, it sets moments of realization that emerged with events and meetings with people, with a child and a tiny woman, a cup and even the Pope. Much recognized wisdom and many lines of the Holy Bible, that link the course of narration or thinking, are meddled within the stories. Next time leave the thought open and that will suit differently than when it forms an entire moral. It offers its knowledge without intrusiveness; knowledge that is slightly shown by the modest titles since they do not tend to capture them.

Let us imagine »depressed« surroundings, from which this entirely different booklet has arisen. We live in an era of a great gab between thinking and life style. We are fleetingly focused on ourselves, but, in fact, dispersed between so many empty jobs, attractive, intrusive offers and even bigger global problems. In this hustle, we easily overlook the meaning of fleeting moments and their life message. Only an illness or a misfortune can slow us down, with which we start to consider ourselves and the world around us differently. How are we to solve the issues in the world if it is difficult for us to listen to ourselves and the people around us? The writer of this booklet is not trying to solve some crucial issues, but rather everyday moments (situations). He has got enough courage to present images of human weakness and the greatest ideals as a daring challenge, and to invite us in the middle of concrete situations to the ideal of saintliness.

Although it takes quite quick to read through the book, I recommend the reader to take time when reading to let the individual stories to end in thought and to form the reader’s view on simple and precious life moments. The reader is very likely to return over and over again to the pieces of already read adventures.