Martynas Starkus became the owner of a 100-year-old farm – a building couldn’t withstand the elements, and another man has big plans.

A 48-year-old man told his friends on a social network the story of how, completely unexpectedly, he became the owner of a long-lived farm after receiving an offer.

“It just came to our attention then. Clearly, I thought it would be nice to have it. So I don’t do anything to prepare. But that for me, from the beginning … no, I never planned. Why am I in trouble? Who cares about those worries?

But a year ago, as soon as the first wave of quarantine ceased, my friend and I took the kids out of the bathroom.

– Go, a farm near me for sale. Not bad for that. It is true that one hand must be added, perhaps even both. But the place is beautiful. Dominate?

– I do not believe it. You already know how I am. It’s not mine here. I love it so much in the finish. Be ready and enlightened. Evaporated on the table, the glass would cool.

– I know. I don’t convince him either. I’m just saying: here on the road, we will spend only a few minutes.

– You are strange. After all, I say, I’m not interested. So why should you go there?

– It’s just a look, not.

In a word, it was easier to agree. We turned around, we went out, we took a walk.

Now I am the owner of this farm. And the owner of that dilapidated wooden house built 100 years ago. There was also a barn nearby, but after this winter only the ruins remained: the old roof could not withstand the pressure of the snow.

I don’t know how that happened. Do not ask. And I’m not here for all the destructive snow. I mean how it happens that you suddenly have something that you didn’t plan at all. And now we have to do something about it. Because what is the use of having even just to have?

So here will be another challenge in my life. As if he missed them, of course. But why not? I held an event last week. An appointment hung in the room where I came to change. For me, those quotes have always been a very dark affair when you’re copying something that you can’t think of yourself, or you’re not sure you’re doing the right thing.

But this time the words struck: “The greatest challenge in life is to overcome your own (established) limits and go as far as you could have ever dreamed of.” French painter Paul Gogen.

Behold. Starting today, every week I will tell you how I, a child from the city, manage to build, or more precisely, reform an old house. And will it be successful? What do I learn, what do I learn, what to do next. And of course I’ll grunt like I can’t get anywhere and how complicated things are. Maybe it will encourage you to try it too. Because nobody was born paying. Because everything can be learned. If you really want to, of course.

Because it is more interesting to live like this, “wrote M. Starkus.