How did you spend your first sunrise of 2021?

As a true tradition, the first moments of any new year put us in the position of looking into an invisible mirror. Our reflection urges us to set goals to achieve within the next 365 days. Some of us succeed, others wait for a new year to set their next goals. In the lines below you will read about an ordinary man who managed to overcome his barriers and who can be an example for all of us.

Christmas and January 1, 2021 caught him in the water of the Black Sea

If you missed the Christmas and New Year's Eve news and didn't see the images of the athletes from Constanta who decided to start their "culinary adventure" with a dip in the sea, at just 7 degrees Celsius, you can see them with a simple click on this photo.

One of the five daredevils is Mihai Nenciu, a 41-year-old entrepreneur from Constanța.

As Mihai describes himself, he is an ordinary man who, through “ work and passion, managed to overcome both his physical and mental barriers” . Only then, Mihai Nenciu is a parachutist, diver, mountaineer , climber, marathon and ultramarathon runner or member of the first team in Romania that set out to reach the highest peak of each continent, in a project called “7 Summits”, reaching the most important peaks in the world so far. “Mihai Nenciu is a Romanian who proudly carries the tricolor all over the world and who speaks with passion and enthusiasm, every time, about the place he comes from, promoting Romania , Dobrogea and Constanța. He is an entrepreneur, he savors life and enjoys it to the fullest”.

"The power of example is not only a form of education, it is the only one"

On December 31, while I was standing in two lines to buy eclairs, Mihai informed me that he had a new project for the first day of 2021. The sunrise to be caught in the cold water of the Black Sea, and the sunset on top of the mountain .

Together with his friends, Mihai wished us a happy birthday! from the beach in Constanța and seemed to give us all the impetus we needed to understand that we can overcome our own barriers.

A few hours later, also on the first day of 2021, Mihai completely changes his outfit to capture the sunset at 2500 meters high.

And if you've read this text up to here, at the end, I'll leave you with a few words written by Mihai himself:

"The power of example is not only a form of education, it is the only one"