I flera år har jag väntat på min revansh

Åren går och förhoppningsvis så lär vi av våra erfarenheter, både de som har slutat i succe och de som slutat i en fullständig katastrof. Vi lär känna oss själva och förhoppningsvis så går vi inte i samma fälla mer än en gång(jag har nog trillat i samma ett par gånger....jag erkänner) Vår energi är dyrbar och vi mår bäst av att lägga den energi vi har på sådant som ger energi tillbaka. Vi lär oss att inte lägga energi på sådant som bara stjäl den.....

Erfarna nog så börjar vi välja vilka stider som är värda att ta och vilken energi som är värd att spilla. Irritation är ett tillstånd som är dyrt på många sätt att vis, och mest för att det väldigt sällan ger någon energi tillbaka. Trots denna lärdom så är vi många som lätt trillar dit i irritations diket. Jag vill påstå att jag har blivit bättre och att jag har lärt mig; det tjänar ingeting till att gå omkring och vara irriterad....framförallt inte på sådant som inte kan göra någonting åt.

Som sagt va, jag har blivit bättre....men det finns fortfarande en sak som gör mig så urbota irriterad och det är strumpor för vuxna kvinnor. Inte just själva strumpan i sig utan det faktum att det ALLTID måste vara en seriefigur på alla damstrumpor. Nu pratar jag inte om vilken seriefigur som helst utan just Nalle Puh. Sedan jag blev tonåring(och började handla strumpor på damavdelningen)så har denna lilla björn, utan att bli ifrågasatt, tryckts på vartenda par strumpor som normal avlönade kvinnor kunnat köpa. För tusende gången så undrar jag VARFÖR? Vad är det för fel på bara helfärgade strumpar utan en massa seriefigurer på?

Bara för att man är kvinna och gillar söta figurer, gärna från Disneys värld, så betyder inte de att vi vill ha dem tryckta på sturmporna....i alla fall inte jag!

Irritationen över alla dessa strumpor utvecklades ganska tidigt i mina tonår till en ren irritation mot Nalle Puh. Under en period så tror jag till och med att jag hatade denna lilla oskyldiga björn. Detta hat gick över med åren, men det tog lång tid innan jag lärde mig att uppskatta det fina som denna björn faktist har sagt.

Det är verkligen ingen vidare mening med att uppleva intressanta saker om man inte får vara två om dem.

Så idag kan jag uppskatta Nalle Puh som den lilla björn han är, men fortfarande är han förknippad med alla de strumpor som får mig att resa ragg.....

Men så en kväll så fick jag min stora revansh! Av en ren slump(eller inte) så sitter jag och kollar på gamla Time out klipp på Youtube. Som gäst under ett avsnitt är en idrottspsykolog som berättar att han har döpt sin son till Puh i andra namn. Robert Gustavsson ifrågasätter då detta genom att säga följande:

Vadå, så du gillar Nalle Puh? Ok, men vad har han presterat?Han är en kille utan underbyxor som är kompis med en gris....
Thank you Robert Gustavsson!! Så underbart sagt och vem vill nu ha strumpor med Nalle Puh på?Ha ha ha.....

Inget är som väntas tider....

Jag väntar och längtar så som små(och stora)barn gör inför julafton. Jag kollar bilder och tittar på trailern om och om igen....Så spännande!

Jag vet vad jag gör den den 20/11 2009!Vad gör du?

Promenader i skogen bredvid och biljetter going far, far away

Jag gillar att ha naturen nära där jag bor. Det blir inte bättre än hemma i Västra Harg, där man öppnar ytterdörren och utanför står naturen och väntar på dig. Då är det som bäst! Nog för att Karlstad inte är som Västra Harg, men ack så bra ändå.....bara 5 minuter från mitt hus finns skogspartier som leder ut på landet till gårdar, sjöar och äkta natur.

Jag älskar att gå på promenader, jag mår bra av dem. Att bara gå och dra in den friska luften, lyssna på naturen eller en kär vän som går med än....det går lika bra vilket som=)Bara jag får komma ut....

Idag bokade jag biljetter till Kanada....pirr....börjar jag bli lite nervös tro....kanske, men oh va spännande de kommer bli och tänk alla nya erfarenheter som kommer komma med hem till Sverige....det kommer bli bra!

Ibland blir måsten bra....som ida...

Vissa saker kan vid speciella tillfällen vara svårare att göra av den enkla anledningen att de är måsten. Det kan i grund och botten vara en rolig aktivitet men den omgivande du-måste-göra-det-innan....sfären tar lätt bort det lustfyllda och roliga.

Men idag fann jag ett knep....jag löste gåten....hittade nyckeln till porten....

(egentligen så började jag nosa på svaret redan i lördags, då min engelska

poster fick oväntat bra kretik....lycka)

Jag blev nöjd med den måste-tyngda uppgiften, de blev bra och jag kände mig lyckad. Tänk vad så lite kan göra erfarenheten positiv.

Det var det här som blev bra....

Tänk vad många måste vi har i vår vardag....varje dag, varje vecka, året om....

Att ha fått lyckats idag kanske gör det lättare imorgon....

Football – a love story

Liverpool’s old coach Bill Shankly once said that Football is not about life and death, it is much more important than that. I am willing to agree with him. Football has so far filled my life with happiness and sorrow that I haven’t experienced in any other way. Football has been an extra spice in my life and I can’t imagine living without it.

So what is so great about running around on a huge filed trying to score a ball that 21 other people also want to score? Lucky enough 10 of them are on your side. Playing football since I was five, both my parents playing I hardly grew up on the football court. I have made friends for life, met wonderful people that have lived there life for the game and I have learned so much about non-profit work and associations. The world of football has taught me so much about team play, friendship, fighting spirit and not to give up when there is still time left. I love to play it, watch it, talk about and live it...because it is my lifestyle.

With everything good comes something bad, someone once said and football is not an exception. A small group of people calling them self supporters bring a great shame over the whole football world. The rest of the world calls them hooligans. Hooliganism cost millions every year, people get hurt or maybe even die. The clubs get punished and the society has to pay for the damage they do. Their beliefs are not even close to what football stands for. Because loving one team does not come with hating its opponent? And hatred is not the way to help your team to success? They call them self supporter but that is the least they are.

The other aspect of football that I am not a fan of is how it has become a billion dollar industry. Billionaires like Roman Abramovitj buy the football clubs like the rest of the world’s population by themselves food. The money gives them power to buy any players they want, and those players will get a weekly payment that would feed thousands of starving people.

No matter how much I love this sport I am never going to defend criminal acts or hooliganism. Football is not suppose to be about money, anger or hate for the once you don’t love it is suppose to be about the game, fellowship, joy and love. Football is such a beautiful thing because it can bring people from all over the world together. It doesn’t matter if you are black or white, rich or poor, a boy or a girl, Christian or Muslim; everything you need is a ball. So let’s start play!

God morning, I would like some protection against myself please...

My mother said this thing every time we left the house. She locked the door and said: I lock the door to keep my friends out because the enemy’s will get inside anyway. It took a while before I realized the meaning and the truth in that sentence. The funny thing with living on the countryside is that all your friends and close neighbours know where that extra key is hanging in the garage. So why did we even lock the door in the first place? Who and what are we protecting our self against every time we lock the car or house, hide our code to the bank account and erase the secret e-mails? I am fairly sure that the terrorist don’t want my car or poor bank account. So who or what are we so afraid of that we don’t trust the police anymore?

In a democratic country every person has a legal right to have a lawyer even though that person robbed, stole something from, raped or murdered an other human being. Democracy is also about feeling protected against those kinds of crimes. This is a matter where I can see a use in having cameras on a street corner, in a park or next to the ATM. The cameras can be a help for the police to investigate a crime. The problem with having cameras is that we sooner or later will have them all over to keep everyone safe, all the time, everywhere. So let’s just put them in the most crucial places, but where is that? If they should be there to keep people safe I guess we should make them as robots so they really could protect us in a more physical way. Because I’m afraid that the cameras want stop the person committing the crime from doing it. A camera ain’t that scary.

Someone, a lot of people or maybe everyone knowing what I have done, what I am doing and what I plan to do is for me a very scary thought and not even close to democracy. It is more like taking away everyone’s integrity. If there is a reason to investigate someone’s life I think that it is awesome to be able to see who he or she called, what time the person came to and left work and even test the persons DNA. Having a DNA base is something I believe in, because if I know I am innocent what do I have to be afraid of. But I don’t like the idea of being registered when I leave my bed, make a new friend or go to a party. I am ok with being registered doing official things like leaving the country, having a baby, making a phone call(as long as no one is recording it) or getting cash from a ATM.

If we are so eager to protect ourselves from everything that we fear we will end up protecting yourself against ourselves. It will be like an evil circle without any end. We will end up punishing ourselves and not the terrorist or however we are after. Democracy is not about knowing what everyone is doing all the time. Democracy is about understanding the background to people’s actions and for that we need to talk to each other.

Grades in primary school....not for the child’s development

It is interesting how some numbers or letters on a paper can mean so much just because they are written by a person’s teacher. I see why they are important when you are old enough to apply for schools and special programs because there want be room for everyone. They will tell the person judging you what you are good at and what you are not good at, written in single letters or numbers. But do they really tell anything about why the grades are the way they are, how you are as a person, how you have been developing or how you can grow and learn in the future. Grades are for some reason linked to a safe and secure future and your own development, my opinion is different: Grades want help the young learners development.

I say that young learners will be inhibited in their development because of the pressure that will come along with getting grades in primary school. Knowing that you will be judge, compared to what is “normal” for your age will put the learner under a pressure not healthy for a child. The grades in it self, being a B or a 3 want tell anything about what the child needs to work with to develop on neither a social, emotional, physical and psychological level. It will just put a pressure on what they need to accomplish.

Grades in primary school will lower the children’s self-confident. They will put the focus on what I believe is the wrong thing; on the result and not on the important achievement and the fact that you have learned something. Not being able to reach what is meant for a child in that age will give the child a low self-confident, and in the long run inhibited the development. The grades will if it is possible make the children compare them self to each other even more and only the highest grade will be something to feel proud about. Only that will make you feel more self-confident. Young learners need to here what they are good at, when their achievement is brilliant and when they have developed. That is what will help them develop their self-confident and that want be written on a grades paper if they still haven’t reached the grade limit.

On the other hand the centre-right alliance and Jan Björklund, the minister of education, say that grades will be a good way to give the teacher and the parent’s better control over the child’s school situation. They will be able to know more about how the child is doing because the grade system will be an accurate documentation. This is a good argument, because the documentation of today is inadequate on some levels and at some schools. So yes grades could be a better help for teachers and parents, which in the end could help the child’s development.

If we want to insure the young learner’s development I think there are better ways to keep everyone updated than giving grades in primary school. If the government instead of just deciding that grades is the best solution to what they think is a problem developed a national way of documentation. A documentation that would give the whole picture of the child and it’s learning situation, that is what I believe would benefit the child. Benefit and favour the child so it can continue developing.