{"id":46,"date":"2015-03-29T12:32:38","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T09:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smartcommunication.com\/blogi\/?page_id=46"},"modified":"2015-03-29T13:45:40","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T10:45:40","slug":"why-this-blog","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.smartcommunication.com\/blogi\/why-this-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Why This Blog?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s All About The Art Of Sharing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Actually, it was my son, a very bright young man who lacks all my unnecessary modesty, who suggested that I should start publishing a blog: ”Man, you’re a professional writer and a pretty\u00a0creative person. Why don’t you use even more your tool that the years and decades have sharpened? Your sold professional stuff will most likely never make you famous.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Well, I am not after fame with this blog, either. I am reasonably satisfied if some of my friends occasionally read my lines and share my thoughts. And – who knows? – maybe I will make new friends or get new readers, as well. Most people write for themselves; even many of them who get published in one way or another. For me the best kind of scribbling resembles meditation: the only company is yourself and your stream of consciousness, your dreams, memories, aspirations and what have you. Sometimes the therapeutic effect is equally positive.\u00a0I write; therefore I am.<\/p>\n

However, the most important motive for this blog is the idea of sharing with the capital S. I think sharing is one of the keys to human happiness. This is a very widely-proven fact by many traditions, from incalculable\u00a0schools of psychology to Buddhism and other similar well-proven traditions. In my case I did not always know how to share, neither did I see the importance of it. I learned it quite precisely 40 years ago, on a different continent, in a\u00a0quite dull\u00a0American suburb. That personal learning process is told in my musing reminiscence\u00a0below:<\/p>\n

Far away there is a captivating city about which you once said only there the people are crazy enough to paint a bridge red.\u00a0From that city a message came to me breaking the news that you had passed away just a few days ago. In case you can now monitor my innermost thoughts, you might be surpised to learn that someone\u00a0as distant and non-visible in your later decades can feel such\u00a0a staggering loss deep down in his heart as I did.<\/em><\/p>\n

You had cancer already in the mid-seventies when we met\u00a0in your kitchen in a mind-numbing New Jersey suburbia that<\/em>\u00a0made one long for the once beautiful farmland it was build on.\u00a0A kind of place I did not feel exactly at home at that time \u2013<\/em>\u00a0yet the very reason we sat together in the first place.\u00a0I liked to hurry after school from our blue house at Fairfield Drive\u00a0a few yards to your cream-colored house, boringly identical with the rest,\u00a0passing your cream-colored Audi on the driveway while making a short-cut to your kitchen door, smelling the cake and tea, expecting our session.<\/em><\/p>\n

In the modern sense you were not in such a great shape, as our encounters took place a long time before a generation of\u00a0American housewifes and career women rushed into gyms\u00a0wearing figure-hugging apparel in a Jane Fonda style.\u00a0No, you were a solid counseling lady with a degree in Psychology\u00a0wearing checkered slacks and a pastel colored turtle-necks, pearls too.\u00a0Such an engaging individual you were, not a mother projection, but rather a challenging partner in many deep-probing conversations.<\/em><\/p>\n

Each time you made a point I remember voluntarily immersing myself\u00a0into your dark, wet, twinkling eyes and witnessing how your mouth,\u00a0surrounded by gracious wrinkles of maturity, did the convincing talk.\u00a0Your main advice for a puzzled, introverted teenager in the midst of\u00a0life\u2019s first let-downs, was a trick you called by a verb I can still recall:<\/em>\u00a0\u201cShare your time, your thoughts, your feelings \u00ad\u2013 share your life\u00a0with those around you \u00ad\u2013 and discover the love that is there to be shared.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

So through this great simple idea of sharing I am also lovingly commemorating a soul I knew a long time ago.<\/p>\n

The writings in my blog will be published in English, Swedish and Finnish. Usually, in the language they were originally written. All comments are welcome.<\/em><\/p>\n

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