I’m grateful for computers. It’s incredible to live in a time where I at any moment can choose to make a blog, or a website, and just do it. And it will be available to the whole world. Who knows who might find this site, and when. Who knows how different life will look when I read back on this one day, many years from now.
I’m at the summer cabin my family rents from my mom’s job every summer. We’ve been here for a week now. It’s nice to get away, and I feel grateful for this place (so beautiful, so many memories). But some days here are dull. Like yesterday. My sin is that I think the brightest summer days can the most boring — like yesterday. It was beautiful, and I was outside, but I was bored. I do like sunny, beautiful days, of course. Maybe it’s just that sunny days are for being with firends in the city . This morning, however, I woke up to heavy rain. I’ve been trying to wake up earlier, and somehow it was that much easier to do that when I knew that standing up means I could look out at the delectable weather.
The reason I’m trying to wake up early-ish, even on summer vacation, is that I have so much I want to do. Some things are work and study-stuff, like preparing Norwegian material for the tutoree I have taken on or reading for criminal law, the first course of the coming semester. Other things are more fun projects, like the one I’m doing with Thomas, one of my best friends from Beijing. Sometimes it frustrates me, but when I get into it I really enjoy it, and I think it would be wise of me to keep at it even when I struggle to find that flow state.
This morning was for passion projects. But at some point while working I decided that today is the day I make a blog/website. It’s an idea I’ve had several times before in my life (and I have also had a blog or two in the past). Last fall I became quite sure that it’s something that fits me, and I created a Substack after looking into the different platforms. But after having used trying it for half a year, I see some drawbacks that I hadn’t expected. So I’m migrating here. Woo.
It was so fun to make this website (or convert it from an old one I had, that I had almost forgotten). I disappeared into the task. It was an instant mood boost. Dullness = gone.
The day just got better after that, because we moved cabins. Mom’s job has a number of them in the area, and because of booking stuff with other families (idk) we only did one week at the first place. So now I’m in the second cabin. And while they’re both fantastic, the view from this second one is just so great. Here’s a comparison:
I think that’s all I have for now. It’s been a nice week. Food’s been incredible. And it really is relaxing being here. I got home from China 20 days ago today. So strange to be back, altough it mostly feels okay. Biggest thing is I miss my friends there, the ones from the university and especially the ones from BICF.
Oh, and the title of this post. If the connection between it of the text is unclear, I was thinking about how many wonderful things exist in this rich, rich world -> such as computers. It’s something I journaled about right before bed last night, so I guess it was still on my mind. In that entry, I mentioned the trees and grasses that dance in the wind and the ocean (which is so clean here, ahh!) and things like how rich the selection of vegetables are in every store I ever go to in my life. It’s so good.
Talk soon!
Maja
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