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  • Self care. Life skills. Common sense.

    Self care. Life skills. Common sense.

    What’s the most underrated life skill?

    I think the most underrated life skill is self care. We take ourselves for granted & forget about taking care of our mental & physical health. I think we need to be able to sleep without checking our devices constantly. The blue of the screen really does harms us & our ability to sleep.

    I think the other underrated life skill is basic common sense. So many people are becoming reliant on something that can destroy us all, AI. AI doesn’t have all the answers. But very many people are becoming reliant on technology. Kids here in Norway, teenagers can hardly read or write. If the internet went out they’d have no ability to actually survive.

    That’s frightening, a whole generation that can’t take care of itself. How are they supposed to care about genX. Or their parents? People seem lost in today’s society. Lost in their phones on the bus, lost on their ever so advanced video games. I know I shouldn’t say this but it makes me hope we have a global disaster where the internet is down for an extended period of time.

    Why do I wish that, so parents can teach their kids to read & teach them life survival skills, like how to build a fire. Their phones when dead won’t teach them how. I want the world to have an enormous reset. It’s time we thought about the basic & common survival skills for all of us. Where to get water, firewood & food.

    Instead of asking some robot to listen to your conversations & giving you advice. We need an actual drill by our government to see who has what it takes if our precious internet goes down & our smart phones are no longer smart.

    That’s all the underrated life skills we’ve forgotten about. Life without the internet. How wonderful it was.

  • Be good. Do good.

    What’s a personal mantra or philosophy you live by?

    I think that having a fundamental mantra is a good way to live. I grew up with domestic violence & never had a safe space when I was in high school.

    Because of this I think that doing something good for the community is a way to create change.

    Let me explain how/why I didn’t have a safe space. My father(who has been drinking since I was 16.) Felt that he had the right to coercively & psychologically abuse me to the point that I was suicidal. In my own room with no lock on the door, that was only for my little princess sister who got whatever she wished.

    I was told repeatedly since grade school that I was worthy of nothing & that I’d become nothing. By my father, my mother joined in the abuse by withholding physical affection from me. She also partook in the abuse.

    Back to the original question. Be good. Do good. I believe that all behavior especially abusive behavior comes back to the person. I believe in karma. Not because I want harm to come to that individual but rather that they get a life lesson. By being good & doing good. I feel that I’m making my life now better.

    Abuse does many things including doubting how/why the abuser keeps singling you out. I do good like volunteering & helping others in need because I feel gratitude in return. It may not be some high ranking job but I know I make a difference & that matters. Gratitude means more to me than money & material wealth. What obstacles have you overcome to live your life?

    Bjørnfjell

  • Being in the mountains

    What’s a moment in your life that made you feel truly alive?

    Now, I don’t mean the hills in the city I live in. I mean the mountains above the Arctic circle. That reaches well over 1,000 meters in height.

    When I go into the mountains by my uncle’s cabin there’s a serenity when you get away from the noise of the road.

    The trees are short & the moss is soft. It’s serene to hike there as the peace is really there.

    I’ve tried to recreate the same feeling here down south but it’s just not possible. There’s something special about those mountains & there always will be.