Photo: Blendi Salaj/ Instagram

It often happens that small episodes of our daily lives make us think seriously: why should we continue to do things the old way, while our lives are moving towards increasingly rapid rhythms?!

So much so that sometimes it seems as if, despite all the Sisyphean efforts you make, you still won't be able to fulfill all your obligations, that you won't be able to be everywhere at the same time.

The impossibility turns into anxiety, especially when you deal with banks that require you to be physically there, at the counter.

This was the concern that journalist Blendi Salaj shared with his followers, through a video on his social networks. He showed one of his runs, with numerous papers in his hands, on an unfavorable rainy day, when Tirana's traffic becomes even more obstructive than usual. He had to go to the bank for an urgent payment. He arrived on time. But there he saw that there was a long line waiting for him. In the endless wait, his mind began to grind his desires, his possibilities: What if there was another solution for banking services, so that he didn't have to come to the counter and wait in line at all? What if it was just him and the bank? From the search he had done on Google, for digital banks, he realized that in Europe, for years, millions of people have been using banks like Revolut, N26 or Monzo, without queues, without papers, without counters. A bank that exists on the phone and works anytime, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Meanwhile, in terms of standards, digital banks are just as licensed, secure, and supervised as traditional banks, if not more so.

While searching, Salaj found the news that in Albania too, the 100% digital bank model, called Jet Bank , is coming and is expected to enter operations soon.

At the end of his video, Sala closes with a famous quote by Seneca: "We don't lack time, we just waste it," implying that with choices like Jet Bank , he now has the opportunity to not waste time with banks and old ways.