I actually come from Slovenia (Europe)… but I sometimes prefer using other languages to reveal my thoughts and express my feelings. I wonder why I do that.
It may be due to the influence of listening to music. Songs often talk / sing about feelings (love, sorrow…) that are common to all of us… That’s why they somehow integrate the whole world.
When I was younger, I was thought not to talk about feelings. (We were not suppose to show our tears - we were supposed to be able to do things that ought to be done.) If I sang an Italian song that helped me comfort my needs, no one objected (because no one understood).
Have you ever wondered about the possibility of previous lives? (Does it ever happen to you that certain things / places / persons… seem familiar to you although you are quite sure you have never…?) What about choosing our parents? Maybe I was somehow directed to be born at the other side of the world. (I even prefer doing things at night.)
... I wonder how… I wonder why… and I like it :).
It may be due to the influence of listening to music. Songs often talk / sing about feelings (love, sorrow…) that are common to all of us… That’s why they somehow integrate the whole world.
When I was younger, I was thought not to talk about feelings. (We were not suppose to show our tears - we were supposed to be able to do things that ought to be done.) If I sang an Italian song that helped me comfort my needs, no one objected (because no one understood).
Have you ever wondered about the possibility of previous lives? (Does it ever happen to you that certain things / places / persons… seem familiar to you although you are quite sure you have never…?) What about choosing our parents? Maybe I was somehow directed to be born at the other side of the world. (I even prefer doing things at night.)
... I wonder how… I wonder why… and I like it :).
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Dear SueAnn,
I had to check out your blog the minute I received your sweet link to it. I knew it would be something special, just like you – the only girl in a class full of boys. ;-) I like your photo – you look so happy and relaxed.
It's true what you write about expressing ourselves in a foreign language. But I guess this is true not only for you but for many of us Slovenes.
When I was still a university student we discussed with my fellow students the usage of the Slovene verb 'ljubiti', i.e. 'to love' – people hardly use it in the original sense of the English word, especially the youth in our region (i.e. primorska). It sounds so literal, so artificial, so awkward. We feel more comfortable using a word, which is nice and warm but not as strong – 'imeti rad', i.e. 'to like'. I know many Slovene teenagers who write love poems in English, not in Slovene, because the latter supposedly doesn't sound right. Most of our teenage bands perform in English.
Why is this so? Could it be that we Slovenes are traditionally reserved and tend not to express our emotions openly? Something to do with our national character? Other nations and languages seem to do this more easily... Maybe when talking a foreign language, we subconsciously assume a more relaxed identity?... Go figure.
Anyway, I think one of the best things about blogs is that you can feel people who are behind them. Pure and uncensored.
Happy blogging!
Hi, Saša :))
I’m glad that you came by... I somehow expected you (we are like nighthawks – our time starts when everyone is asleep ;-)).
I’m glad to know that there are more and more people that try to find some time and space for feelings in this modern time of technology and rashness.
Welcome to this blog :-)
Hi Sueann,
finally you made it to create your own child, a blog. Now you can talk even when no one listens....
Just don’t forget the page has its end.
Hahaha, don’t take me seriously!
I'm just joking!
Happy bloging.... and visit my blog too.... it is a bit wet but maybe someday you can find there something interesting for you too....
Hello, Igor ;) (another nighthawk :))
It's nice to see you around.
Thanks for advice and a nice invitation. Don't worry; I like that kind of wet things ;). Speaking about water, I like swimming and free diving, too. I never get tired of fun. I adore the silence of deep and dark water, the feeling that it embraces (fits me all around), gives me the sensation of weightlessness… and creates that special effect of being alone with yourself. (I wonder if astronauts feel that different?)
See you at your place as soon as I can ;)
Hi Suzana. Interesting thoughts. I ask myself similar questions...
Nice blog. My boys said that your daughter is very beautiful.
Bye
Hello, Damijan :)
When I saw your family the other day, I thought of a fairy tale: “Once upon a time there lived a King and a Queen, they had three sons and all of them were handsome and very brave... They all lived very happily ever after.“
Thanks for visiting, and best wishes to all of you :)
I enyoied your blog and the comments, it's too good to be true you are amaising! ;-)
Special greetings to Dušan,
I’m glad that you enjoy reading and commenting my blog :). After all we usually share things and experience to feel better / to help one another / to make ourselves and other people “richer”…
I was very happy to learn about your opinion – you made my day more beautiful. Thank you :)!!! Feel welcome to come again.
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