Thanks for not takign me as conceited in my last blog. You see, people have doen it before, for lesser things than this (I once said in my Norwegian blog that I'm expecting to get good grades, and some anonymous guy suddenly posted a comment about me being arrogant and conceited and so on).

Anyway, I'm planning a series of small texts on the subject "The bad things about modern humans". I'd like you all to try and read this, please :)

Today's humans are usually busy with work, relaxing with their coffee while watching the news and other modern privileges. They're usually busy all the time, and focuses on what they have to do. To be happy, you'll have to live a successful life; get an education, get a good job, get a family, pay your bills, and so on. This, however, leads to them not noticing all the wonders that's around them all the time (the only thing that could bring real happiness from the above list is family).

Show people a bush, ask them what they see, and they'll probably say something like: "a bush", "a plant", "twigs and branches" or maybe any of the former statements continued with "which reminds me, I have to go hoem and trim the hedge in the garden". Something like that most people will answer if you ask a similiar question about a flower, the sky, clouds or something else.

People who answer that all have the same problem: They fail to appreciate the smaller and mroe insignificant things. If I look at a flower, I don't see a simple flower, I see a whole life; I see the story of a living being. If I look at a flower bed, I see a whole word, crawling with life, crawling with opportunities and wonders.

If you're one of the people who can see what I see, you're lucky. If not, try to see things in a new light. It's not healthy being all about doing things all the time, which many people today have a problem with. Even I, who never work and only do what I want, get stressed, because I always need something to do - even if it's supposed to be relaxing. What I've begun to do is to just take a full stop - even if I'm in the middle of something -, go outside, and appreciate the wonders of creation. It helps the stress level to go down. But stress is something I'll talk more abotu later on.

Song: (listen to this song if you've read the blog) Louis Armstrong - Wonderful World