My Confusion and I

We all have feelings. If you say you don't you must be a robot because having feelings is one thing that defines us as people. What you and me feel changes constantly and no one can ever feel exactly the same thing as you do. My happiness might be different from yours and your sadness might be something completely different from what I'm feeling. Because of this no one can tell us that what we're feeling is wrong. However, we can try to understand other people and relate to what they are feeling to similar experiences we've had in our lives. One thing that has struck me recently though is how we seem to think we can relate to other people's feelings when in fact we often close our eyes to what is really going on. Especially when someone is going through something difficult. I find this strange because it is completely normal to have bad days. We wouldn't be human if we didn't. We all have bad days, some people more than others but we have all been there whe...

Dear society, Yes, I'm talking to you there with the white fair skin that burns in the sun. Yes, I'm talking to you that get tanned by just someone mentioning the sun. Yes, I'm also talking to you with dark skin that also gets attacked because of something you were born with. We have a problem. Yesterday some people decided that they don't like jews and because of this they went to the only jewish school in Stockholm and painted antisemitic propaganda on the school walls and this morning kids had to come to a place where they are suppose the be safe and see how there are people out there that don't respect them for who they are. I'm not talking about adults here having a discussion, I'm talking about kids aged 13-15 being exposed to the cruelty of people that clearly don't have enough common sense to keep their respectless thoughts to themselves and even if they feel they have the need to express their opinions they have to do it in a way that doesn...

You, me and every adult you see in the world has been a child. We've grown up learning how to walk, talk and so on. We learnt it in different speed but that doesn't say anything about us, we are not defined by how quickly we learn this since we later on in life learn other things that changes our view of the world. What I've noticed recently though when my mind has moved on from being a child to an adult is how quickly the children grow up now-a-days. 5 year olds wear make-up. 12 year olds are talking about sex, drugs and rock n' roll and 15 year olds are having kids. This is not really new to me but it has recently started to scare me. During a lecture we were put in the situation where we had to discuss how ethical some charity adverts were. Is it ok for organisations such as PETA to have these campaigns going on in public? My immediate answer was no. This should not be seen by everyone. Some of my coursemates tended to disagree though. They thought that a child...

I recently experienced something that many people would be uncomfortable with, things about me got exposed online by another person. It wasn't anything particularly bad and there was actually no proof it was about me except for the fact that I knew it was. This made me uncomfortable for several reasons, one was I wasn't expecting to see it and it was a bit of a surprise since I didn't believe it was that person's right to share that with the world but to be honest, it wasn't something I couldn't cope with. After all, no one could actually trace it back to me. The thing that struck me harder was the things people post online without realising that it will have consequences. I am not going to write what was posted or what other people have posted on the same space because that is not up to me to tell the world but I feel the need to inform my readers and hopefully people around the world what internet does to the private. One thing people seem to forget when the...

Yesterday the news of Philip Seymour Hoffman dying because of drug overdose hit the media. A 46 year old man, with probably half his life left to live, died because of the same reason as Amy Winehouse, Cory Monteith and many other talented people have before him. As sad as it is, him dying is not what upsets me the most. What upsets me is the fact that this seem to happen over and over again but no one seems to try to change it. There are clearly something wrong with the society if we let this happen and instead of educating people of how bad drugs are, we write about how sad it is that this great actor has died. Don't get me wrong, it is sad but we don't seem to be told that he died because he was doing something he wasn't suppose to do. We've seen it so many times before in the entertainment industry, (I can't say this is what happened this time but I am going to speculate anyways) people can't handle the pressure of fame, working and handling their personal ...

If you didn't know it already, I am getting extremely close to the end of my long road of education. After 12 years of school and 3 years of University I am going to get to put on a black cape and a strange hat to pretend I am in a Harry Potter film for a few hours. This might seem like a relief, and believe me it is, but it is also terrifying. I am now suppose to grow up, get a job, figure out what I want in life and achieve it. But that is not the purpose of this post because I think we all know how students feel about the question "so what are you going to do after university?". By getting closer to graduation me and probably a lot of my friends have started to experience the competitive side of your coursemates. Suddenly the topic on everyone's lips has gone from 'what results you get on your exams' to 'who's got the interview with the company they all applied to work for'. This has come to the stage when your previous coursemates are becomin...

Here we are the first day of the new year. Our Facebook news feed is full with statuses saying Happy New Year, New Year is trending on Twitter and everyone seems to be analysing the previous year and decide what they are going to do differently this year to make their lives even better. Usually I promise myself to do all these things such as exercising more, eating healthier, studying more and spend less money and believe it or not, I always end up breaking the promises after about a week. So this year I've questioned myself, why do I even bother to promise myself all these things when I know I will break them sooner or later and just end up disappointing myself?  The answer is clear, there is no good reason for me to do this so I decided not to promise myself any of these things and instead actually focus on what I already have. So for 2014 my New Year's Resolutions are Promise myself not to promise myself to do anything. Yes, this makes no sense at all in one way but w...