Books I learn from: Predictably Irrational
August 4, 2011
Latest aha:
Relationships are of two kinds: social ones and buisness ones.
As soon as money is even mentioned, a relationship is likely to fall over into the transactional type, where we require payment and fairness.
When not, we can allow ourselves to be a lot more generous and giving: People do voluntary work for free, but when you offer them a SMALL amount of money for it, they don’t volonteer.
I’m realizing that is what ended lots of my good relationships:
Trying to make a financial transaction changed everything.
I used to think it was because I never realized how ungenerously those ex friends treated me until I saw their unvillingness to part from even a very small amount of money.
People I helped for months and years who, by not returning money, or demanding money, made me realize they didn’t value all the things I had done for them – why else would they ask me to also donate heaps of money to them?
But this theory, from economic psychology, tells me there are also this fact that added problems. As soon as you’ve reassigned your relationship to being buissness, your allowance for unfairness is automatically reduced..
Aldrig att jag nånsin fick en blomma
April 6, 2007
Vi blev ihop när jag var 16, jag kom dit varannan helg
Aldrig att han gav mig en blomma
Istället hittar jag bland våra papper
Kvittot på buketten till den andra
Jag födde vårt gemensamma barn
Aldrig att han gav mig en blomma
Istället förbjöd han mig att sätta in födelseannonsen
Och förteg ett hon fötts för dem han kände
Jag vårdade vårt lilla barn på sjukhus
Aldrig att han gav mig en blomma
Istället kom pappren med ny remiss
På blodprov till faderskapsbestämning
Nu lyser solen. De vilda blommorna knoppas
Aldrig att jag behöver hans blomma
Jag vet var min blomsterhandel ligger
Mina blommor ska jag unna mig själv.
A stolen poem…
February 10, 2007
This is a theft, but I have no clue who wrote it, but… its important to me…
“I will fly for you, said the bird.
..so I tore off its wings and said: So, fly!
I will sing for you, said the bird.
So I ripped out its tounge and said: So sing!
I will die for you said the bird.
And I could not stop it.
“
I can’t live without you…
February 10, 2007
After months of waiting, there she was, beautiful, complete with fingers and toes… And ill.
But… Children are not supposed to be ill… Each child should outlive its parents! You mean she could… die?
The first reaction, was that so often heard between lovers: I can’t live without you…
If my child were to die, why would I go on? Why would I live? What would be the point? But all these questions apart: I just wouldn’t be able to do it… I would… die.
But I gave it some thought…
…. no….
… I know I will live…
As unromantic as it sounds, I can indeed live without you…
It will be hard, it will be sad, it will be painful, but… It can indeed be done…
For if I can’t live without you, what will your life be, dear? If you need to exist for my sake…
I need to let you free to live your life, without any guilt, without regret… And if I can’t do it now, I might never be able to let you go…
So, daughter, I love you. I wish you to stay alive throughout my life and until you get fulfilled with living and decide it’s time for a rest, long after I’m gone… but whenever you need to leave… so be it.
I don’t need you… but I love you and want you. Thank you for coming.
… http://www.columbia.edu/~gm84/gibran3.html … (Kahlil Gibran)
Meknow says hi to the blogging world.
February 9, 2007
Started a blog in Swedish 3 days ago, but this site looks so much better, and easier to read, so I’ m making a more international one, what the heck!
The name is not chosen because I´m an uncurable “know-it-all”, which I am, indeed, nor because I, rather incorrectly, comment other peoples experience with “Oh, I know…”
(We dont know, we dont understand. Thats the basic truth. But we can guess, and relate, and emphazise. But thats pretty good, too…)
It’s just simply the nearest I could get to the original blog name, Minou, which I have no real clue to why I choose, except it’s not my own name, and I know a cat who wears it proudly!
So, welcome to my little spot in the net world!
Yours,
Minou