here we go..
I hate it when I see/meet people who have bad manners. My mother always taught us good manners and she had the authority to make us behave well and remember the basic manners and to be courteous and thoughtful and nice to people. Have the following things ever happened to you?:
1. You are just about to get to the door and the person going in sees you but won´t hold the door open for you?
It´s happened to me many times and it´s very annoying especially at work when I get to the front door because I have to take out ( and of course find the damn thing first ) my keycard and the person who turned and saw me and didn´t hold the door open just continues their walk even though they can still see me there going through my bag and trying to find the keycard. I never do that if I see a person who´s just about to reach the door, I stay there and hold the door. My life won´t fall apart if I give out 1 min to hold the door open.The same goes for holding the door open for elderly people and kids at a store or where ever.
2. At work, walk by without looking into your eyes or even saying hello?
oh this is so annoying. People see you. You see them and you know they saw you then they turn their head away or look at the floor when they pass you without saying anything. I mean you spend more time at work during the week than at home with your family, these people are all colleagues and we should get along well, my mom would kill me if I wouldn´t greet people. I don´t even know how many times I say, hi, good morning, hello,. what´s up?! at work when I come in every morning and I AWLAYS look people in the eyes and smile as I greet them, basic manners and when you´ve done it long enough it´s automatic :-D
3. People are talking to you and they look everywhere else but in your eyes?
every god damn day. It´s the same as having your sunglasses on indoors when you are talking to a person privately, I was taught to look a person in the eyes when talking to them. I always feel weird when talking to someone who stares at the wall while talking to you, I feel like looking at the wall like "what? did you see something weird on the wall?" and I feel like looking at the wall too :-D
4. Bad table manners
Oh this is something my mom was very specific about, always use your for and your knife. Never start before everyone has their food. Always use a tablecloth on your lap. Always use the knife and fork or the spoon in a correct fashion. Always wait for others to finish before leaving the table and leave together with the people you are eating with. If you are invited for dinner to someone´s house always take your own plate and glass to the kitchen or offer to help in clearing the table. Never rest your elbows on the table, make small talk etc.. we were very well trained with my brothers and my mother always tells us how she was complemented of our good table manners when we were invited to eat somewhere, but nowadays it´s automated and I teach the same manners to my son and I have had compliments about how well he behaves when sitting at a table. Oh and I have had so good training that when I go out to have dinner with my customers I don´t even have to think about these things, it comes naturally. My mom went as far as teaching us the correct ways with chopsticks too and that has helped me a lot during business trips to Asia
Sometimes I feel like people have forgotten about good manners and politeness, good manners and a smile to another person doesn't cost you anything so why not use it? It will not only light up the persons day you are being polite to but it will also boost your own identity with others.. also as a conclusion SMILE to others, you might not even notice it but one smile to a stranger might save that persons day, you don´t know what they might be going through and your smile just might help them get through that day!!
Thursday, September 19, 2013
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Adulthood dosen´t mean you have to lose your inner child
Now this one came to mind this morning when I had a meeting where all managers and the president and vice president of our company were at.
I see this every day.. I am full-on in the business world and it seems that to most people adulthood means that you have to lose your sense of humor and forget all fun and "childish" things. I could NEVER live like that myself. I love the fact that I have two sides to me that I can utilize in my life.. There is the child called Emilia and then there is this grown woman called Emilia living in the same body.
I´ll give you an example of my "childish" behavior. It must have been at the point when my son had just turned 4, we went into a huge store, after going through the groceries and kitchen towels etc we usually go to the toy department in the store to check the new toy´s out. This time we noticed some cool star wars gear and I started telling my son how huge star wars was when I was a kid and about all the other toys and how these are so much cooler than the ones we used to have as kids. I gave my son a light saber from the shelf and took one for myself, then we went to the masks and I introduced the Darth Vader mask to my son, he didn´t like it so I didn´t force it, took the Vader mask for myself and then we started "fencing" on the isle, me with my Vader mask on and a red light saber and my son with his green light saber and I even started humming the s. wars tune very loudly. There was this old man behind us that just laughed his a** off at us .. See I think you can sincerely enjoy "childish" things even as an adult.. I have wrestling matches with my son or we might take some water guns and run outside or play something with LEGO blocks and build all day long or take a match on his Cars car track etc., I think a world where you have to confine yourself totally to the adult world would be very boring. My son also once told me that he loves to bring his friends over to play cause im the only parent that runs around with the kids .. maybe im just sad or something :-D
Basically I think that because I missed out on my childhood I've been able to keep my inner child alive. I actually once had a dream about it too, well me, meeting me when I was a kid.. but that was a sad dream and I think it played a big role in my own recovery from my childhood.
So anyways, back to the subject again :-D When you grow up you don´t need to hide the side of you that want´s to play, laugh and have fun and besides kids are great, they are so honest and when they laugh it comes from the heart and you can hear it :) For example we have these outing days sometimes from work and the last time we had two options at a same location, either enjoying a walk in the forest or some jogging or go and have a paintball war.. guess which one I picked ? The paintball was a cool experience and I enjoyed it so much, we were split into 2 teams ( I was the only chick who wanted to participate, the others went for the walk ) and we had a cool war zone with big rocks and everything in the middle of the forest, it was really cool :) but I really enjoy things like that.
Some people assume that if you are playful you must have something wrong in your head.. well might be im not denying that but, I've always been able to out think the "serious adult" people.. I think it´s smart to have a child alive inside of you :)
I see this every day.. I am full-on in the business world and it seems that to most people adulthood means that you have to lose your sense of humor and forget all fun and "childish" things. I could NEVER live like that myself. I love the fact that I have two sides to me that I can utilize in my life.. There is the child called Emilia and then there is this grown woman called Emilia living in the same body.
I´ll give you an example of my "childish" behavior. It must have been at the point when my son had just turned 4, we went into a huge store, after going through the groceries and kitchen towels etc we usually go to the toy department in the store to check the new toy´s out. This time we noticed some cool star wars gear and I started telling my son how huge star wars was when I was a kid and about all the other toys and how these are so much cooler than the ones we used to have as kids. I gave my son a light saber from the shelf and took one for myself, then we went to the masks and I introduced the Darth Vader mask to my son, he didn´t like it so I didn´t force it, took the Vader mask for myself and then we started "fencing" on the isle, me with my Vader mask on and a red light saber and my son with his green light saber and I even started humming the s. wars tune very loudly. There was this old man behind us that just laughed his a** off at us .. See I think you can sincerely enjoy "childish" things even as an adult.. I have wrestling matches with my son or we might take some water guns and run outside or play something with LEGO blocks and build all day long or take a match on his Cars car track etc., I think a world where you have to confine yourself totally to the adult world would be very boring. My son also once told me that he loves to bring his friends over to play cause im the only parent that runs around with the kids .. maybe im just sad or something :-D
Basically I think that because I missed out on my childhood I've been able to keep my inner child alive. I actually once had a dream about it too, well me, meeting me when I was a kid.. but that was a sad dream and I think it played a big role in my own recovery from my childhood.
So anyways, back to the subject again :-D When you grow up you don´t need to hide the side of you that want´s to play, laugh and have fun and besides kids are great, they are so honest and when they laugh it comes from the heart and you can hear it :) For example we have these outing days sometimes from work and the last time we had two options at a same location, either enjoying a walk in the forest or some jogging or go and have a paintball war.. guess which one I picked ? The paintball was a cool experience and I enjoyed it so much, we were split into 2 teams ( I was the only chick who wanted to participate, the others went for the walk ) and we had a cool war zone with big rocks and everything in the middle of the forest, it was really cool :) but I really enjoy things like that.
Some people assume that if you are playful you must have something wrong in your head.. well might be im not denying that but, I've always been able to out think the "serious adult" people.. I think it´s smart to have a child alive inside of you :)
Friday, September 6, 2013
Beauty - are you sure you can judge?
Yep, back from a coffee break..
So it´s amazing to me that people nowadays just see the outer layer of you when they determine if you are beautiful or not. It all comes down to preferences in my opinion when talking about something you can see immediately. Im old fashioned in that sense that I think beauty really comes from the inside and if a person is beautiful you can see it on the outside as well. I´ll explain my view a bit. If a person has a beautiful soul / personality ( to me these two things are the same ) You´ll see it from their eyes. In my mind the mirror of the soul really is a persons eyes. I always notice the eyes first, if there is something worth getting to know in a person I've always seen a spark in that persons eyes, you can also see if their smile goes up to their eyes, if it doesn't well.. I usually don´t get interested in getting to know that person more. I´ve noticed through my work that people say way more with their eyes than with their mouth´s or bodies. I always look the other person in the eyes when talking to them and usually when I see someone interesting I look at the eyes first, the same thing has happened to me when I've realized that I am interested in a person romantically, they have beautiful eyes with that special spark .. weird.
Why isn´t personality suddenly a criteria anymore? who decided what is beautiful anyways? I mean why can´t people accept the fact that someone else might find something you dislike very beautiful in their mind? Why isn´t diversity appreciated? Why do you have to fit into a mold to be beautiful?
Oh and now I just have to recommend the following things: Please look at Nikki Sixx´s photobook: This is gonna hurt & listen to Sixx AM´s album This is gonna hurt especially the songs Lies of the Beautiful People & Skin and after done those things think really really really hard have you condemned people as ugly for wrong reasons? seeing someone who is different and saying they are ugly without knowing the person is wrong in every way I can think of.
When I was a child my mother brought a former patient of hers to our home ( she is a nurse and she was working in a organization to support people with disabilities to function at their own home) and I befriended him immediately, he is one of the most sweetest and loving and one of the most BEAUTIFUL people I've seen in my life. He has multiple disabilities including a tough case of down syndrome and he uses his electric wheelchair to get around he also suffers from a disability that makes it hard for him to talk but he is not hard to understand if you stop and listen to him. He has this amazing way of smiling at you and when you look at his eyes you can see the biggest spark ever. If he loves you, he will take out a comb from his little bag that he has with him when you are talking and he will hand the comb to you and he expects you to comb his hair, for me it was the biggest compliment I have received from an adult person. When I grew up I suddenly started to notice how people stopped and stared at us when we were talking for example in a grocery store and I was combing his hair on my knees on the ground so that we could be on the same level and look each other in the eyes and just talk. Listening to the Sixx AM song Skin makes me think of him and I always cry. He is beautiful in every way and he is a an amazing person in every way and a great friend to people that he cares about.
Please people, but your own behavior under a microscope and think why would you judge, avoid, discriminate or label people as ugly. My biggest wish is that this post makes even 1 person think about this.
So it´s amazing to me that people nowadays just see the outer layer of you when they determine if you are beautiful or not. It all comes down to preferences in my opinion when talking about something you can see immediately. Im old fashioned in that sense that I think beauty really comes from the inside and if a person is beautiful you can see it on the outside as well. I´ll explain my view a bit. If a person has a beautiful soul / personality ( to me these two things are the same ) You´ll see it from their eyes. In my mind the mirror of the soul really is a persons eyes. I always notice the eyes first, if there is something worth getting to know in a person I've always seen a spark in that persons eyes, you can also see if their smile goes up to their eyes, if it doesn't well.. I usually don´t get interested in getting to know that person more. I´ve noticed through my work that people say way more with their eyes than with their mouth´s or bodies. I always look the other person in the eyes when talking to them and usually when I see someone interesting I look at the eyes first, the same thing has happened to me when I've realized that I am interested in a person romantically, they have beautiful eyes with that special spark .. weird.
Why isn´t personality suddenly a criteria anymore? who decided what is beautiful anyways? I mean why can´t people accept the fact that someone else might find something you dislike very beautiful in their mind? Why isn´t diversity appreciated? Why do you have to fit into a mold to be beautiful?
Oh and now I just have to recommend the following things: Please look at Nikki Sixx´s photobook: This is gonna hurt & listen to Sixx AM´s album This is gonna hurt especially the songs Lies of the Beautiful People & Skin and after done those things think really really really hard have you condemned people as ugly for wrong reasons? seeing someone who is different and saying they are ugly without knowing the person is wrong in every way I can think of.
When I was a child my mother brought a former patient of hers to our home ( she is a nurse and she was working in a organization to support people with disabilities to function at their own home) and I befriended him immediately, he is one of the most sweetest and loving and one of the most BEAUTIFUL people I've seen in my life. He has multiple disabilities including a tough case of down syndrome and he uses his electric wheelchair to get around he also suffers from a disability that makes it hard for him to talk but he is not hard to understand if you stop and listen to him. He has this amazing way of smiling at you and when you look at his eyes you can see the biggest spark ever. If he loves you, he will take out a comb from his little bag that he has with him when you are talking and he will hand the comb to you and he expects you to comb his hair, for me it was the biggest compliment I have received from an adult person. When I grew up I suddenly started to notice how people stopped and stared at us when we were talking for example in a grocery store and I was combing his hair on my knees on the ground so that we could be on the same level and look each other in the eyes and just talk. Listening to the Sixx AM song Skin makes me think of him and I always cry. He is beautiful in every way and he is a an amazing person in every way and a great friend to people that he cares about.
Please people, but your own behavior under a microscope and think why would you judge, avoid, discriminate or label people as ugly. My biggest wish is that this post makes even 1 person think about this.
Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Religions, church system etc..
Another text after a coffee break and reading some stuff last night before going to bed. I love to read about mythology, history, religions etc.
Now, I would like to start this one by saying that I don´t have a religion and no im not an atheist because I believe an atheist believes in believing in nothing. I believe in something but I have never found anything that would even come close to my "belief system" so im not able to name myself and again.. labeling, if you read my blog about it you know how I feel about that. Yes, exactly my mind works in a very complicated way I know, heh..
so.. oh now I feel overwhelmed as there is so much to say about this subject and in large portions I might be even contradicting myself.. getting more complicated? yes? well what can I say religion isn´t an easy subject, religion isn´t a subject where you can have just one perspective, that must be one of the reasons why it fascinates me so much. I will just go over a few opinions about the major religions in Finland and just the "general" stuff, believe me if I would go through all this blog would never be ready and I would just go on and on until this would be a huuuuuge book.
I believe that the need for religions stems from the fact that people NEED something to believe in. The way that a human mind works is that it needs to have some sort of justification for everything that happens to them, around them and all over the world. If you take a look at the history books you´ll notice that most war´s etc. come from the same "simple" reason.. religion. Racial questions were raised by people having a strong belief system, condemning metal music and rock came from this same thing. Witch hunts and all.. all come from the same root. That is one of the reasons why I don´t like belief systems at all, of course there are people who are able to live in peace and harmony even though having a strong belief system, but as with all things, when it goes too far it´s dangerous.
I was born in Finland and Finland is a Christian country officially, that´s why I was automatically included in the Christian belief system, yet I am not a Christian, I don't like the fact that they take out a percentage of my wages to the church every month just because I am a part of the finnish Christian church, the only reason why I do not fill out the separation notice to the Christian church system is that with the percentage they take out they also pay a lot of the church aid´s to poor countries and the children of poor countries and the church in Finland has a good background in giving aid to different countries and I want to support that with a small percentage every month and this is the only aid system in Finland who do not take a lot of the money meant for the aid for staff costs for example so I know that my money will help too. I will make the separation notice once my son is old enough to decide for himself if he want´s to do it and when my own aid plan is ready which we are working hard on with some of my closest friends.. that will be massive btw, but the time to reveal the whole thing isn´t yet unfortunately and that´s a subject for a different blog anyway :-D So ah yes, the strange church system here, well it´s the same as in many other countries and this is one of the BIGGEST reasons why I hate it so much, the church is basically the same as the government. These two things in my mind are completely different and under no circumstances should the church and government be in bed with each other. Then there is the other thing about Christianity that I do not like, there are these people ( I know a few of this type personally ) they hit you in the head with the bible condemning you for the most stupid reasons like watching a horror flick, listening to some "wrong" type of music, not going to church etc.. and yet, these people are the most corrupted, cold, uncaring people you have ever met and besides that they make the ultimate sin in my mind of raising themselves above all other people who aren´t in their "holy circle" of people. Then the bilding that is called church, I always love to take this up with the people I described above because they don´t get it and they can never explain the function of the building to me, now, try to follow me. The bible said that under every stone you turn you´ll find me, im in the tree´s etc ( I don´t know if that was close to the English translation as I have read the bible only in finnish ) so why do you need a building to be close to god? the bible is basically saying you can talk to god whenever, wherever just talk and listen. So why would I need a building to do that and a priest? I talk to an entity all the time actually, don´t know if that entity known to many with other names exists but like I said I believe in something, might be god who knows :) so these people usually say that you need the building to ask for forgiveness and the priest to be the vessel between you and god.. uhm, ok I find that explanation kinda strange when I compare it to bible, didn´t god create man as his own image acc. to the bible? so the human race should already be close to god right? so where does the priest fit in? then they usually go on to saying that you can repent your sins with the help of the priest in front of god.. well.. I don´t need help from someone else to apologize to a friend for example, so why would I need the help of a priest to ask for forgiveness from god? im sorry I just don´t get it... also Christian services are really boring to be honest and has a sad mood to it, too stiff, too serious and too sad.
Then we come to a hazardous area of the Islamic faith, I am saying this because the current situation in the middle east is the gasoline to start a fight over things about Muslims and Islamic faith. I think it´s really sad that the most raised news from EG for example is the fact that the local Muslims were endangering themselves to protect Christians working in Egypt. Why does it all always come back to religions fighting over things, The world is filled with toddlers having the most ridiculous rage fits and yes I am talking about the human race. We are all just as precious as people in comparison to the other, we are all the same and if you read through history you´ll notice that the same blood run´s through us all. this race started from the same point, There will always be disagreements over religious views and opinions will clash but do we always have to be violent when things won´t go our way? what the ***** happened to mature discussions, im scared of the example we as "adults" are giving to the children of this world., I don´t even watch the evening news anymore because it makes me cry every time when I see how much suffering there is in this world. ok so see.. im going on to include a separate topic to this blog again :-D like I said this whole subject is much more complicated than what you would think initially. so the Islamic faith, I think it´s an interesting faith and there is so much positive aspects to the belief system, and yet again we come to the extreme people and how they are negatively affecting the whole view on this belief system. I have a close friend Mohamed who is actually a native Egyptian, I met him through my work when I was on a business trip in Egypt and we got along really well, no not in a romantic way :-D I know some of you had that quick idea already. but as friends and he is a Muslim and we have never fought over religion, we have discussed our own point of view´s and tried to understand where the other one is coming from and our discussions have always ended in some sort of understanding.
Oh and even when I said I would go over major religions in Fin, I just have to comment on a fantastic experience I had during a business trip in Asia. I had actually just arrived to Seoul in South Korea and I was feeling really tired and I was suffering from jet lag. I didn´t want to sleep though because it was morning in Korea and I wanted to survive the jet lag without making it worse ( I always do this because other wise my inner clock will be so messed up that I won´t be able to function) so I decided to stay up until it would be 10 in the evening in Korea and I would be able to turn my clock to the local time and I would be refreshed and sharp as a knife the following morning because I was going to meet many of our customers and I would have to take care of their worries and be able to explain many things and be able to reply to everything that might be thrown at me during the meetings, besides, when im tired I get really irritated easily because I have to wear high heels and a business suit :-D so I went into my room at the hotel and left my stuff there and decided I would take a walk, when I was waiting for the elevator I noticed a massive Buddha statue in the middle of a forest nearby the hotel ( my room was in the 26th floor ) and took a close look at the roads and which way I would have to go and where would I have to turn to get there. So I decided I would go and take a look at the statue, when I arrived at the outskirts of the forest I noticed that there was a sign stating that it was actually a functioning Buddhist temple and there were monks living there, I went inside the temple area and I was lucky enough to be there right when their prayer moment was about to start, I asked around and found out that it was allowed to go into the temple and watch it from the corners and to be honest I've never witnessed anything so peaceful and religious in my life, it felt amazing and afterwards I was able to take a look around the area with a monk who was happy to show me around, it was amazingly beautiful and a fantastic and peaceful experience. The monks were so kind and they were happy to explain all kinds of things to me and show me the prayer drums and all, I felt blessed to be able to experience that.
so I guess as a conclusion you could say that the best way to live with a belief system is understanding and appreciating the diverse religions around the world, you can have your own faith but don´t ever judge or condemn someone just based on the religious facts and never judge a religion. ¨
Now, I would like to start this one by saying that I don´t have a religion and no im not an atheist because I believe an atheist believes in believing in nothing. I believe in something but I have never found anything that would even come close to my "belief system" so im not able to name myself and again.. labeling, if you read my blog about it you know how I feel about that. Yes, exactly my mind works in a very complicated way I know, heh..
so.. oh now I feel overwhelmed as there is so much to say about this subject and in large portions I might be even contradicting myself.. getting more complicated? yes? well what can I say religion isn´t an easy subject, religion isn´t a subject where you can have just one perspective, that must be one of the reasons why it fascinates me so much. I will just go over a few opinions about the major religions in Finland and just the "general" stuff, believe me if I would go through all this blog would never be ready and I would just go on and on until this would be a huuuuuge book.
I believe that the need for religions stems from the fact that people NEED something to believe in. The way that a human mind works is that it needs to have some sort of justification for everything that happens to them, around them and all over the world. If you take a look at the history books you´ll notice that most war´s etc. come from the same "simple" reason.. religion. Racial questions were raised by people having a strong belief system, condemning metal music and rock came from this same thing. Witch hunts and all.. all come from the same root. That is one of the reasons why I don´t like belief systems at all, of course there are people who are able to live in peace and harmony even though having a strong belief system, but as with all things, when it goes too far it´s dangerous.
I was born in Finland and Finland is a Christian country officially, that´s why I was automatically included in the Christian belief system, yet I am not a Christian, I don't like the fact that they take out a percentage of my wages to the church every month just because I am a part of the finnish Christian church, the only reason why I do not fill out the separation notice to the Christian church system is that with the percentage they take out they also pay a lot of the church aid´s to poor countries and the children of poor countries and the church in Finland has a good background in giving aid to different countries and I want to support that with a small percentage every month and this is the only aid system in Finland who do not take a lot of the money meant for the aid for staff costs for example so I know that my money will help too. I will make the separation notice once my son is old enough to decide for himself if he want´s to do it and when my own aid plan is ready which we are working hard on with some of my closest friends.. that will be massive btw, but the time to reveal the whole thing isn´t yet unfortunately and that´s a subject for a different blog anyway :-D So ah yes, the strange church system here, well it´s the same as in many other countries and this is one of the BIGGEST reasons why I hate it so much, the church is basically the same as the government. These two things in my mind are completely different and under no circumstances should the church and government be in bed with each other. Then there is the other thing about Christianity that I do not like, there are these people ( I know a few of this type personally ) they hit you in the head with the bible condemning you for the most stupid reasons like watching a horror flick, listening to some "wrong" type of music, not going to church etc.. and yet, these people are the most corrupted, cold, uncaring people you have ever met and besides that they make the ultimate sin in my mind of raising themselves above all other people who aren´t in their "holy circle" of people. Then the bilding that is called church, I always love to take this up with the people I described above because they don´t get it and they can never explain the function of the building to me, now, try to follow me. The bible said that under every stone you turn you´ll find me, im in the tree´s etc ( I don´t know if that was close to the English translation as I have read the bible only in finnish ) so why do you need a building to be close to god? the bible is basically saying you can talk to god whenever, wherever just talk and listen. So why would I need a building to do that and a priest? I talk to an entity all the time actually, don´t know if that entity known to many with other names exists but like I said I believe in something, might be god who knows :) so these people usually say that you need the building to ask for forgiveness and the priest to be the vessel between you and god.. uhm, ok I find that explanation kinda strange when I compare it to bible, didn´t god create man as his own image acc. to the bible? so the human race should already be close to god right? so where does the priest fit in? then they usually go on to saying that you can repent your sins with the help of the priest in front of god.. well.. I don´t need help from someone else to apologize to a friend for example, so why would I need the help of a priest to ask for forgiveness from god? im sorry I just don´t get it... also Christian services are really boring to be honest and has a sad mood to it, too stiff, too serious and too sad.
Then we come to a hazardous area of the Islamic faith, I am saying this because the current situation in the middle east is the gasoline to start a fight over things about Muslims and Islamic faith. I think it´s really sad that the most raised news from EG for example is the fact that the local Muslims were endangering themselves to protect Christians working in Egypt. Why does it all always come back to religions fighting over things, The world is filled with toddlers having the most ridiculous rage fits and yes I am talking about the human race. We are all just as precious as people in comparison to the other, we are all the same and if you read through history you´ll notice that the same blood run´s through us all. this race started from the same point, There will always be disagreements over religious views and opinions will clash but do we always have to be violent when things won´t go our way? what the ***** happened to mature discussions, im scared of the example we as "adults" are giving to the children of this world., I don´t even watch the evening news anymore because it makes me cry every time when I see how much suffering there is in this world. ok so see.. im going on to include a separate topic to this blog again :-D like I said this whole subject is much more complicated than what you would think initially. so the Islamic faith, I think it´s an interesting faith and there is so much positive aspects to the belief system, and yet again we come to the extreme people and how they are negatively affecting the whole view on this belief system. I have a close friend Mohamed who is actually a native Egyptian, I met him through my work when I was on a business trip in Egypt and we got along really well, no not in a romantic way :-D I know some of you had that quick idea already. but as friends and he is a Muslim and we have never fought over religion, we have discussed our own point of view´s and tried to understand where the other one is coming from and our discussions have always ended in some sort of understanding.
Oh and even when I said I would go over major religions in Fin, I just have to comment on a fantastic experience I had during a business trip in Asia. I had actually just arrived to Seoul in South Korea and I was feeling really tired and I was suffering from jet lag. I didn´t want to sleep though because it was morning in Korea and I wanted to survive the jet lag without making it worse ( I always do this because other wise my inner clock will be so messed up that I won´t be able to function) so I decided to stay up until it would be 10 in the evening in Korea and I would be able to turn my clock to the local time and I would be refreshed and sharp as a knife the following morning because I was going to meet many of our customers and I would have to take care of their worries and be able to explain many things and be able to reply to everything that might be thrown at me during the meetings, besides, when im tired I get really irritated easily because I have to wear high heels and a business suit :-D so I went into my room at the hotel and left my stuff there and decided I would take a walk, when I was waiting for the elevator I noticed a massive Buddha statue in the middle of a forest nearby the hotel ( my room was in the 26th floor ) and took a close look at the roads and which way I would have to go and where would I have to turn to get there. So I decided I would go and take a look at the statue, when I arrived at the outskirts of the forest I noticed that there was a sign stating that it was actually a functioning Buddhist temple and there were monks living there, I went inside the temple area and I was lucky enough to be there right when their prayer moment was about to start, I asked around and found out that it was allowed to go into the temple and watch it from the corners and to be honest I've never witnessed anything so peaceful and religious in my life, it felt amazing and afterwards I was able to take a look around the area with a monk who was happy to show me around, it was amazingly beautiful and a fantastic and peaceful experience. The monks were so kind and they were happy to explain all kinds of things to me and show me the prayer drums and all, I felt blessed to be able to experience that.
so I guess as a conclusion you could say that the best way to live with a belief system is understanding and appreciating the diverse religions around the world, you can have your own faith but don´t ever judge or condemn someone just based on the religious facts and never judge a religion. ¨
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