A monday of sorts
Posted by Patrik Edvardsson | Posted in Albert Hein , Amersfoort , Amsterdam , Bodil Malmsten , Hör bara hur ditt hjärta bultar i mig , Kings Of Convenience , Malaysia | Posted on 3:16 PM
Friday evening and I’m sitting with four newly showered floorball players in a car on the way from Amersfoort to Amsterdam. I like going between cities in the Netherlands during daytime cause it gives me the chance to see some cows. I tell this to the floorball men who are fogging the windows in the car. They laugh, no one tells me their favorite animal. Maybe they don’t have favorite animals? When I lived in Malaysia I spent a lot of time thinking about favorite animals. And now it’s Monday and I went to yoga for the first time ever and stepped out in the world a bit confused with all the movement. I put on King of Convenience in my mp3 player and biked to Albert Hein to get some food. But when I got there I forgot what I was suppose to buy, so I stood in the isle to try and figure it out, starring at some asian wook sauces. Then I went home and read in the Swedish authors Bodil Malmsten’s book ‘Hör bara hur ditt hjärta bultar i mig’ (Just hear how your heart is pounding in mine, if I try and translate the title) where she writes (once again my translation):
Only the dumbest think thats it exclusively glamorous to break up from a country you have been living in for 50 years and settle down in another culture.
3 points dude! I bet it was such an excellent feeling after your first yoga lesson. You only realized it "out in the world"... It turns out to be adictive! Take care Patrik ;)
Dreaming of going abroad and surrounded by dumbs... I am not complaining, but I think you are right.
yes, I feel that yoga might well be addictive, but that's ok. It's better than, let's say, crack.
I guess the quote means that, sure it is great to move abroad if it's right for you, but that people sometimes things everything is great always just because you happen to be in a place which some people find cool and different. But life is more complex than that of course, but this you already know, since you are a wise Spanish man.