25 little factiods

Þriðjudagur, 10.2.2009

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1. I find myself always as an outsider in a group, outside society, outside the universe in a very strange way, especially as I find myself at the very same time at the center of everything. I´m quite at ease with this. It gives me a kind of bird´s eye view and at the same time I´m involved….

2. I every day, think of the meaning of the concept "life" and "living", what mankind is doing here on this planet, what the so-called universe consists of, and how and if genealogy is connected to what we call "fate" and "eternity". I was 6 when I first wrote about those questions. This is probably a part of the "collective sub-consciousness" of this planet (a Jungian concept).

3. I´m afraid of anger and hate and through all my self-work and psychological work with others, I have´nt found out the reasons for this. This also counts for my own anger- and hate.

4. I´m a freaky mixture of a luxury – loving woman and a socialist with high ideas of equality for all in all aspects of life. I like to sleep between embroidered satin sheets and rub my skin with fragrant lotions, put Coco Chanel bath oil in my bath, sip my Martinis from Crystal glasses, and have clothes from Max Mara, Andersen & Lauth , ELM and Jones of New York in her wardrobe. BUT, I want everybody else to be able to enjoy this if they want to: There the economics step in and then I step out … maybe to run away from my contradictions?

5. My main interests are philosophical matters, for the most part eastern philosophy, literature, music, anthropology and psychology. So-called “super-natural” things fascinate me, although I don´t really believe that anything can be defined as “super-natural” - and then what does it mean to “believe in”?

6. I love Christmas rituals and traditions, and at the same time I like to break them and try something new. I´ve come to terms with myself in doing half and half.

7. I´m very lucky with many things. As an example the way I memorize things from the past is fabulous and vivid: Not only do I see the scenery as in a play or a film, but I can smell things (be it foul or sweet) and experience the atmosphere and the “hidden” things in the interactional dynamics, i.e. what I perceive as the hidden agenda. This can be extremely enjoyable, but also extremely hurtful, as can be imagined.

8. I loathe films, music and plays with no flesh on the bones, with no blood streaming through the veins, with no juice. Hollow, thoughtless, sterile, square, lacking in depth. Therefore it´ s always easy for me to describe my taste in films, music, plays and most forms of art: “Just bursting with life, juicy in all the possible senses of that word, with the rhythm of life, with joy and sorrow and all there is between, with and bout real people ….”

9. As some people love the smell of the cows, fresh grass etc., I love the smell of the city. This is very dangerous to express and politically not at all right, but I love the smell of carbon-dioxide, the smell of asphalt, the smell of restaurants, especially from oil that have been used over and over again. I adore the indescribable mixed smell of the city and all it´s different corners... That does´n t mean that I don´t love the smell of the so-called “nature” as well, I do, I do, I do. Especially I have a close relationship with the smell of the sea and everything in and on it.

10. Once, I was so stupid, narrow-minded, ignorant and unfocused on the main things in life, that I thought happiness would come along with being 175 cm of height and 50 kilo of weight. Now I would settle for 160 cm and 55 kilos.

11. The most important things in my life are emotional relationships. Having had a strong relationship of trust and love with your parents, will get you a long way. Having very similar relationship with your kids will make your life full and your soul peaceful (…..although you keep searching for meaning and all that all your life…) Having been so lucky in this sphere of my life, I can hardly wait to see what grandparenthood will give me. I can´t believe I´m going to be honored with that desirable role this summer.

12. I love all kind of food. Old Icelandic food is a special favorite. In my childhood´s home I always got initial class food and got very spoiled in that manner and set the standards high from an early age. I have been offered one kind of cuisine I love as much as the Icelandic cuisine and that is the one of Iran, old Persian cooking. The food from there is like made in Heaven (no politics involved here, not to mention religion….) so juicy, so good tasting, having this special soothing effect.

13. I lived many places during my life. First to mentioned is one of the most beautiful place in the world, Eskifjörður, a village in East Iceland, where I was born and grew up. Then there is my beloved Reykjavík, where I have lived most of my adult years. I have got to know various streets of Reykjavik, like Háteigsvegur, Flókagata, Eskihlíð, Grensásvegur , Snæland in Blesugróf (all places I used to live during the years at the Commercal College of Iceland), then where I established my own family, Víðimelur, Miðbraut, Seltjarnarnesi, Reynimelur, Heimatún, Álftanesi, Austurtún, also Álftanesi, and now Naustabryggja. Quite many places. Outside Reykjavík, I´ve lived for a few months in Dalvik, Northern Iceland, in Denmark (Copenhagen, summer-work 16 y and 17 y), and at last in Denver, Colorado. There I lived with my family for two years while I studied for my Master´s Degree. All of those places have had their own special charm, Miðbraut the least, Naustabryggja and Heimatún the most. I loved living in Colorado and was keen on the idea of settling down there, but my family was more been eager on going back home. Well, I´m glad today.

14. I love to study people and try to guess where they are from, how they talk and walk, what vocabulary skills they have, how they view things and how they live in the world. People endlessly inspire me and are often the basis of stories and poems for my drawers. When I was little I loved putting on a little play for mommy and daddy and my brothers and sister, at night, and make believe I was this and this person, imitating the way he talked, he walked, how he laughed and the way he used words and such and such. My publicum laughed a lot and I got much out of this. They warned me not to make fun of other people though in a negative sense, and I should only show them and my siblings this, - not to anyone else. They also strictly banned talking badly about people behind their back, which sometimes I found very hard, when somebody had been not so nice to me or to somebody else. I´m more positively than negatively inclined towards people, -otherwise they would not inspire me so constantly.

15. I hate it when people make long speeches about nothing interesting (to me) and when people can´t get 25 items about themselves in 50 line or so.

16. I sometimes try to adjust sails according to the wind, in many fields of life. I sometimes find it hard to understand when people call people with that attitude “camelions” in a negative sense, - and “false people pleasers” in even more negative sense. I´m kiddin´ - of course I understand it, but I feel so comfortable to use the sails-adjusting method in many aspects. Sometimes you can do that for the benefit of the whole, - but of course you can also use it to be false or to make things more beneficial your way. Every single thing in life you can use in a bad way, to be malignant towards others. This sail – tendency (if you will) – is probably the lazy Lion-side of me. I´m born in the sign of the Lion and I´m told their lazy sides can appear in the most peculiar ways.

17. I´m a psychiatric nurse and very proud of it, but it was recently pointed out to me that I almost never mention it in conversations with other people, paradoxically as it may sound. My Master´s program consisted of nursing management and a brief solution-focused therapy in nursing, which is based on Milton Ericksons´s work. I loved The University of Colorado and I loved the Nursing Department, the University of Colorado Medical Center, and everything I got to know, experience and learn in Colorado. What an utterly fabulous time of my life.

18. I never cry at movies. Well, almost never. My friends tell me that´s because I´ve seen so much terrible, been a part of a catastrophic psychiatric care team, attending suicidal scenes and so on….. but I don´t think that is the case. I you think I´m going to reveal this secret here, you think I´m dumber than I really am.

19. Being born in the sign of the Leo I think I ought to have answers to everything. The older I get the more I see and realize how little I know and will ever know – in this lifetime. I´ve learned to make peace with my ignorance now. As a matter of fact I kind of like my ignorance, because it makes my eagerness in searching for answers even more meaningful.

20. I have a million dollars idea for a purse design, I just have to hire the designer.

21. I envy people with unbroken bones.

22. I envy women who are 175 cm and 55 kilos.

23. I´m totally lucky with the way I am, apart from my broken bone (which by the way will be healed totally before the 21^st of March 2009)

24. I admire people who contradict themselves without hesitation.

25. I love the number 25.

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