Hello to You out there. written Jan. 17th, 2011 Finland
Ok. Here’s a puzzle. Now I’ve decided to do this, start a blog and write to you. Yes, you. All my life, as long as I remember I’ve loved to write letters. And I mean real handwritten letters. I remember a time (and not from so distant shore) when it was exciting to open the mailbox and see from which corner of the world I’ve got mail. Italy? Japan? Usa? Nigeria? France? Nepal? U.K?
You see, I grew up with having quite a few “penpals”. I wanted to broaden my borders and connect with people from different cultures and backgrounds because that is where I felt most at home. Despite being of Finnish nationality, I class myself as a world citizen the most. I love mixing Finnish, English and French (the languages I can handle) and see people of all colors and races walking on the street. That is the view that I call how it’s meant to be.
There has also been a time that I’ve had friends, and I mean real Friends. As the saying goes, true friends remain over time and one might think (but not me!) that there aren’t any left over, because in this place and time where I am right now, I’m connected to hardly any. I believe, I’ve simply lost the contact, and that I have not come to terms with the changes… some like e-mail. I try to bare with it, no matter how quick and easy it is.
So what am I up to here then?
Deeply said, writing is really my soul’s breathing and I want to write to someone but don’t know anymore to whom. I don’t know who is out there, but a world full of humans with breathing hearts and souls that in a bodily form are a part of a complex and amazing universe and needing to connect with others. So hello, to you. Nice to meet you! Nice to exist with you on this planet Earth. And welcome chez moi in this blog. I would like it to be a nice café or a livingroom where one can chat about anything, but really, about things that matter and what makes us who we are.
I suppose this is a reinvention of my long-lost hobby of sitting in cafe's and writing letters. Ta-daa.
With nothing less than my HEART, Rina
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