Presentation of Jurgita Navikienė's book "The Art of Living Well. One Year Later"

The Druskininkai Crafts Center “Menų kalvė” will host the presentation of the book “The Art of Living Well. After One Year” by Jurgita Navikienė, an auditor and mother of three children. The presentation will be moderated by journalist Arūnas Limantas. 

“After one year... After writing the first book “The Art of Living Well”, I didn’t want to stop. That’s how this second one was born. Writing a book for one year is a relatively short period of time. However, it is also a discipline – not to miss a single day and to organize and sort thoughts into social media posts, and later – into the pages of a book. All the stories of another year – from Easter to Easter – are felt, experienced, and made sad. Some are written through tears, others – with a feeling of infinite gratitude to another person, to one’s own being, to the Supreme. Some – with a purposeful intention to open wider the eyes of oneself, and perhaps – to the reader.

This is the second book, “The Art of Living Well. After One Year,” a sequel to the first. So a more perfect title than the first “didn’t stick.” Only the continuation of the title, “After One Year,” conveys our relentless forward movement—after all, none of us stopped halfway. So, it’s likely that the second book will be somewhat different. 

Going deep is not like crawling into a cave. On the contrary, going deep in your perception of the world expands your horizons, you no longer close yourself within four walls and are not limited to someone else’s expressed thought. You look at the sky more often. You break boundaries or at least expand your field of vision. Ask a few questions and you yourself seek answers. Because scientific research is changing—some researchers get different results than others. So, what should we believe in? Only God, only science, only created or imposed authorities?” 

Author of the book Jurgita Navikienė