Showing posts with label City. Show all posts
Showing posts with label City. Show all posts
16 June 2014
21 March 2014
Tromsö From Up and Down
Now I have many new pictures and a brand new laptop to work better with them that I want to have these photos from Norway published fast! Here we have more pictures from Tromsö, at the harbour and from up the hill. In one of those there's me standing on my hands - I have a series of pictures of handstanding in different places (: These Norwegian pics will be enough for at least one or two posts yet, but after that I'll have some more recent material.
20 March 2014
19 February 2014
Social Animal
I have had a very nice couple of days, it feels like everything has gone just the way it's supposed to. First, on Saturday we had our subject association's birthday party with a theme of 1920's. There were many new people, and I was proud of myself to actually get to know many of them, because I'm normally really shy and not good hanging out with totally new people. And it was really cool to dress up like a 20's lady - there was a photographer and a place to take group pictures, I'll maybe post some here when they are published. The after party was simply awesome, because I danced two hours in a row with some old and new crazy friends.
Yesterday I participated in student's Shrovetide's celebrations by playing snow football in my subject association's team. If you don't know what it is like, I can describe it briefly: amazingly fun, socially connecting, chaotic and physically hard as hell! Right now every muscle in my body hurts because of having kicked a football in snow, and also I'm full of bruises because of the chaotic nature of the game (probably other people have bruises because of me, too…), but I have kind of always liked the feeling of hurting muscles, because then you know you have really done something. But god, that was fun! And again, I'm proud of myself for getting to know new people, because there were almost none I knew from before. I was supposed to be there only for taking pictures, but I'm happy I was recruited to the team.
And I can't express how weird and confusing it was again that at night at the after party of this event there were no people I knew again! Then I totally exceeded myself and went to talk to a guy with whom I had changed names before, and told him that I really know no one there, and that he looks like a nice person so I would like to join him if that's fine with him. Then we talked whole night and he actually was a really nice person and I'm hoping to get to know him better in the future.
When O came to pick me up, we noticed that for the first time in weeks the sky was clear, so we decided to go check if there were any northern lights - and there were! I didn't have my camera with me, and the lights were not too strong, but it was amazing to be there with under the stars, really bright moon and the northern lights with the man I love.
In these images you can see an example of how the weather has been for way too long now. Just cloudy and gray.
Yesterday I participated in student's Shrovetide's celebrations by playing snow football in my subject association's team. If you don't know what it is like, I can describe it briefly: amazingly fun, socially connecting, chaotic and physically hard as hell! Right now every muscle in my body hurts because of having kicked a football in snow, and also I'm full of bruises because of the chaotic nature of the game (probably other people have bruises because of me, too…), but I have kind of always liked the feeling of hurting muscles, because then you know you have really done something. But god, that was fun! And again, I'm proud of myself for getting to know new people, because there were almost none I knew from before. I was supposed to be there only for taking pictures, but I'm happy I was recruited to the team.
And I can't express how weird and confusing it was again that at night at the after party of this event there were no people I knew again! Then I totally exceeded myself and went to talk to a guy with whom I had changed names before, and told him that I really know no one there, and that he looks like a nice person so I would like to join him if that's fine with him. Then we talked whole night and he actually was a really nice person and I'm hoping to get to know him better in the future.
When O came to pick me up, we noticed that for the first time in weeks the sky was clear, so we decided to go check if there were any northern lights - and there were! I didn't have my camera with me, and the lights were not too strong, but it was amazing to be there with under the stars, really bright moon and the northern lights with the man I love.
In these images you can see an example of how the weather has been for way too long now. Just cloudy and gray.
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25 January 2014
Unnatural Death?
This time I'll give you pictures from my trip to Helsinki in early December (it's me in the last pic!), and some talk about death and old age, as it has been much in my mind lately because of my grand parents. I know my opinions are not to everyone's liking, but this is me being honest, and I definitely don't want to make everyone to think the same way either (:
I feel like in this modern culture the naturalness of the death has been forgotten. Surrounded by all these pills, medicines and machines the death is the unnatural thing that comes when you haven't treated someone well, long or strongly enough. I would never want to have a machine controlling my life or death, or even see a loved one get to that stage, because I don't think it is really life - at least not life worth living for. I know many don't agree with me, but I'm not ashamed of my opinion: when the time has come to someone, you should be able to let go. When someone can't recognise their friends and family anymore, or talk or think understandably, it doesn't matter much if the body is healthy. A relative of mine said this about my grandfather who has Alzheimer's disease: his soul (I would say mind) has gone in advance, but the body is strong and still hanging on here. You can't have any rational answers to even normal daily questions from a person in that stage, so who and how is in the position of deciding if the person still wants to live that way. I don't mean euthanasia here (that I agree with totally depending on the case), but that if an old person, whose mind isn't working anymore, has let's say a heart attack, I would think twice before trying to bring them back to life.
(Just to not have any misunderstandings: all this what I'm writing obviously only applies to someone, who's mentally not well for old age or some disease for example. So I'm not telling to kill every old person there is.)
The difficult question must be, who is to decide when someone's life is not worth living anymore. Even fully healthy people have very different points of view about "life worth living", so who's going to decide for those who can't have any rational opinions about anything anymore, or who can't express those opinions. I definitely don't have any answers to how to tell when the life isn't living anymore, I just think that when it gets there, it might be better not to live.
I always try to think my life and decisions by the golden rule ("Do to others what you would like them to do to you, and don't do anything you wouldn't like to be done to yourself."), and I do so concerning death and euthanasia also. Directly speaking, I would like to go quickly without years of suffering in the old age. Of course I would love to live to be an old lady, but only if I would be in good shape mentally and physically at that time too. And I highly recommend applying the golden rule to everyone, because that suddenly might make decisions easier and more logical, even though sometimes it is hard when there are too many points of view (:
I once read about some native tribe somewhere (well that sounds reliable :D) that used to send their elders in a canoe to the river to die when they either for the age of their mind or body could not participate in normal life anymore. According to their believes, this was the way they saved their people from the suffering of the old age, and from the shame of not being able to function normally. Death was not scary or unnatural, but something inescapable, and if I remember well, the ceremony had a positive atmosphere unlike the sad funerals of today. It was celebrated that the soul is free now and the body isn't suffering anymore. Let everyone think what they like, but I would rather chose this destiny than lying in a hospital, nursing home or even at home extending the suffering.
I'll post more pictures tomorrow with no writing just to catch up with more recent pics!
I feel like in this modern culture the naturalness of the death has been forgotten. Surrounded by all these pills, medicines and machines the death is the unnatural thing that comes when you haven't treated someone well, long or strongly enough. I would never want to have a machine controlling my life or death, or even see a loved one get to that stage, because I don't think it is really life - at least not life worth living for. I know many don't agree with me, but I'm not ashamed of my opinion: when the time has come to someone, you should be able to let go. When someone can't recognise their friends and family anymore, or talk or think understandably, it doesn't matter much if the body is healthy. A relative of mine said this about my grandfather who has Alzheimer's disease: his soul (I would say mind) has gone in advance, but the body is strong and still hanging on here. You can't have any rational answers to even normal daily questions from a person in that stage, so who and how is in the position of deciding if the person still wants to live that way. I don't mean euthanasia here (that I agree with totally depending on the case), but that if an old person, whose mind isn't working anymore, has let's say a heart attack, I would think twice before trying to bring them back to life.
(Just to not have any misunderstandings: all this what I'm writing obviously only applies to someone, who's mentally not well for old age or some disease for example. So I'm not telling to kill every old person there is.)
The difficult question must be, who is to decide when someone's life is not worth living anymore. Even fully healthy people have very different points of view about "life worth living", so who's going to decide for those who can't have any rational opinions about anything anymore, or who can't express those opinions. I definitely don't have any answers to how to tell when the life isn't living anymore, I just think that when it gets there, it might be better not to live.
I always try to think my life and decisions by the golden rule ("Do to others what you would like them to do to you, and don't do anything you wouldn't like to be done to yourself."), and I do so concerning death and euthanasia also. Directly speaking, I would like to go quickly without years of suffering in the old age. Of course I would love to live to be an old lady, but only if I would be in good shape mentally and physically at that time too. And I highly recommend applying the golden rule to everyone, because that suddenly might make decisions easier and more logical, even though sometimes it is hard when there are too many points of view (:
I once read about some native tribe somewhere (well that sounds reliable :D) that used to send their elders in a canoe to the river to die when they either for the age of their mind or body could not participate in normal life anymore. According to their believes, this was the way they saved their people from the suffering of the old age, and from the shame of not being able to function normally. Death was not scary or unnatural, but something inescapable, and if I remember well, the ceremony had a positive atmosphere unlike the sad funerals of today. It was celebrated that the soul is free now and the body isn't suffering anymore. Let everyone think what they like, but I would rather chose this destiny than lying in a hospital, nursing home or even at home extending the suffering.
I'll post more pictures tomorrow with no writing just to catch up with more recent pics!
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