Hi friends! Helsinki is covered with snow. There are massive piles of snow around every corner and on the ground lies a nearly meter high layer if snow. Sure the traffic is in trouble and so on, but the scene is just amazing. The world is sleeping under the white, heavy snow, wafting from the quiet night sky as tiny pearly flakes. Since we're so north it's pretty dark this time of the year. I mean it's dark most of the day, and when it's 'light' it's not very bright, just a dim shade of sunshine from behing the clouds. I'm used to it. But this place really is at the end of the world.
I don't know if anything in life goes as planned. You never know what will happen. And that is quite the point of it. What I've learned is that most of the time your expectations are wrong, and the ideas you have for what your future might look like will remain as frames in your imagination. But what actually takes place in our lives might be something greater we've ever dared to dream. Or not necessarily greater though. Lovelier, more exciting, even horrifying. But different. And what I believe we should do is to dare to take a leap towards the unknown, to dare to ride the waves washing over our lives, knowing we have no idea where we might end up.
Thank you for reading my blog, it does mean a lot to me. :)
21 December 2010
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4 comments:
Very insightful writing, and I couldn't agree more. The future has no guarantees, but there's nothing wrong with daring to take risks, doing so can lead to wonderful results...
Well written. Hyvää Christmass from Canada!
Kiitos! :D Happy Christmas to you too!
And anonymous, you're right. Risks are totally worth taking.
I want to come to Helsinki!
And you are right - listen to the Doors song - Roadhouse Blues
The future's uncertain and the end is always near
Let it roll, baby, roll
Let it roll, baby, roll
Let it roll, baby, roll
Let it roll, ah, all night long
Deb
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