Jag är i Barcelona för att få lite mer klarhet! Efter 7 dagar fått vara i Sverige, i skogen, med familj och vänner. Återkom jag med en lugnare , gladare jag .
Så jag sökte tröst och lugn i skogen!
I have been home for a few days. The thing about knowing what home is!
I'm in Barcelona to get some more clarity! After 7 days being in Sweden, in the forest, with family and friends. I returned with a calmer, happier me.
Something I reflected on is how our origin affects. What we long for when I've talked to people who describe cities they've been to, what they liked about the city. When I heard how my partner talked about what he missed in Sweden that wasn't there where we lived! And that piece of the puzzle that I'm missing.
My partner was born in a city with millions of people living, with life and movement, the sea - something I experience as messy and not in any way calmed down. But I love the people, how friendly they are there!
I grew up with a lot of nature and around only 30,000 inhabitants if barely I am used to not talking to anyone for days (not only because there were few inhabitants but from many years of bullying)
So I sought comfort and peace in the forest!
I spoke to a girl who experienced Madrid more alive, more like a big city that it actually is compared to Barcelona. She would probably consider living there if it had been near the sea. She described it a bit like "home", her home is Stockholm! Not until she described Madrid - a city my partner had also been to but he didn't like it. That's when I understood that we like things in our surroundings what we are used to!
I don't think big cities are scary in any way at all. I liked Berlin when I was there - a city I would love to go back to. But when it comes to big cities like Oslo and Stockholm (which aren't that big) None of them are attractive to live in. Opposite Gothenburg is a city I would have liked to live in, lived near that city for 3 years and was there often and felt the calm every time. I compare Barcelona with Gothenburg sometimes. Because if there is one city I would choose in Spain, it would be Barcelona or somewhere nearby if I had to choose again. But I wouldn't choose Spain if I had to choose again. But now you have to compress when you live in a relationship. I try to remind myself of that, the times I long for Sweden: the coolness, the peace, the forest, lakes, job opportunities where I would probably have continued to walk into the wall time and time again!
The positive thing about the stay in Sweden was that I suddenly stood there, saw a frog in the lawn and I felt that I laughed, I felt the joy that I had missed for so many years (a long story about when it disappeared) And that I didn't cry in probably 14 days now. What a progress, as I also somehow got to say goodbye to my dear mother. Who died 4 months ago.
Now the writing shines as it often does for me. But origin is the environment we live in, but also who is created and shaped us into the individuals we are (something I have always been told - she is her own individual - because I was not like my mother or father - according to many)
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