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	<title>W H I R L W I N D &#187; Philosophy</title>
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		<title>Hapiness 101</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 05:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remind myself of the things I should be grateful for every single day. I remind myself of the people I have in my life who love me, I remind myself of my cats for who I am their entire world. And I constantly, constantly remind myself of how lucky I am to live in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I remind myself of the things I should be grateful for every single day. I remind myself of the people I have in my life who love me, I remind myself of my cats for who I am their entire world. And I constantly, <span class="italic">constantly</span> remind myself of how lucky I am to live in Sweden. </p>
<p>Tonight I spent an hour reading about Sharia laws and women wrongly accused of crimes and stoned to death. My first thought was that I wanted to change the world so such things wouldn&#8217;t happen and my second thought was &#8220;thank god it&#8217;s not me. thank god I don&#8217;t live in a culture which condones such things&#8221;. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s easy to only compare yourself to people who are better off than you are but try doing the other way around. I can whine about not having enough money but I don&#8217;t ever let it bring me down for real. If I&#8217;m about to let that happen I just take a look around my apartment and when I see the beautiful things I&#8217;m surrounded by I instantly feel better. How can I not when I know that millions of people live in shacks while I own things to a value higher than the money those people will make in their entire life. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s not just about money. Like I started this entry with, it&#8217;s about the people in your life too. And the things you do. Everything you see. I do my best to take in all the beauty of the world rather than just passing it by on my way somewhere. I don&#8217;t just walk by the blooming trees in spring. I stop to smell the flowers. I admire the view from my balcony and photograph sunsets. I find the beauty in every day. </p>
<p>I&#8217;m not always happy. Of course I&#8217;m not. And I have a <span class="italic">very</span> bleak view of the world and mankind. Perhaps that&#8217;s why I so easily find joy in the small things. Because I know the world is full of suffering and evil but that I have been spared from it. </p>
<p>Like Bono sings in Do They Know It&#8217;s Christmas &#8220;Tonight thank god it&#8217;s them instead of you&#8221;. Some have called that line cynical but I call it realistic. Do thank god or whatever you believe in for the things you have. Stop and take it all in because you&#8217;re probably better off than most people are. </p>
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		<title>Not perfect but still good</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 23:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe happiness isn&#8217;t so much about a perfect life as it is about positive thinking. Maybe it&#8217;s about focusing on what&#8217;s good and accepting what&#8217;s not without letting it bring you down. This probably seems like the simplest of truths to some of you but it took me twenty-seven years to come to this realization. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Maybe happiness isn&#8217;t so much about a perfect life as it is about positive thinking. Maybe it&#8217;s about focusing on what&#8217;s good and accepting what&#8217;s not without letting it bring you down. This probably seems like the simplest of truths to some of you but it took me twenty-seven years to come to this realization. All this time I&#8217;ve let the negative aspects of my life cast a shadow over everything else and because of that I&#8217;ve never considered myself a happy person. Now I&#8217;m happy though. Not because my life is perfect and lack downsides and problems but because I&#8217;ve shifted my focus from those things to the things I am happy with, to the things which are going well, to everything about my life that I love. I can&#8217;t say that I wake up every morning and think &#8220;Oh man it&#8217;s great to be alive!&#8221; but every day I do my best to think positively. </p>
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		<title>Who wants to live forever?</title>
		<link>http://www.whirlwind.nu/2008/12/29/who-wants-to-live-forever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 23:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you could live forever, would you? If you got the opportunity to drink some elixir which made you immortal or you were made a vampire or whatever, would you want that? Or would you prefer to live a full life and then die?
Many people say that they would want to live, grow old and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you could live forever, would you? If you got the opportunity to drink some elixir which made you immortal or you were made a vampire or whatever, would you want that? Or would you prefer to live a full life and then die?</p>
<p>Many people say that they would want to live, grow old and die, because that&#8217;s how it&#8217;s supposed to be. I wouldn&#8217;t! I have a extreme fear of death because I believe that when I die my soul disappear and everything that was me will be gone. I won&#8217;t even know I&#8217;m dead because I can&#8217;t even think. Some say that if I can&#8217;t think I won&#8217;t even know I&#8217;m dead and because of that it wouldn&#8217;t be so horrible. But it would definitly be horrible! It would be like sleeping without dreams and never ever waking up. In what way isn&#8217;t that terrifying?</p>
<p>So yes, if I had the choice I&#8217;d choose to live forever. People who wouldn&#8217;t want do that say that life would become boring after a couple of hundred years and that it would be awful to see everyone you love die and be left alive yourself. But that can&#8217;t be worse than being dead. No matter how boring life would become and how much I&#8217;d miss the ones who passed away living forever must be better than being dead forever.</p>
<p>What do you think? If you&#8217;re religious imagine that you weren&#8217;t. Imagine what you&#8217;d choose if you didn&#8217;t belive in god and a afterlife.</p>
<p>Meet my new affiliates <a onclick="targetBlank(this.href);return false;" href="http://corpseflowers.org">Rachel-Rebecka</a> and <a onclick="targetBlank(this.href);return false;" href="http://www.power-guitar.org">Samantha</a>!</p>
<p>+ My friend Milla now have a Whirlwind subdomain. She&#8217;s funny so if you understand swedish you should <a onclick="targetBlank(this.href);return false;" href="http://www.milla.whirlwind.nu">visit her</a>.</p>
<p>+ My sister should get her subdomain in order soon so <a onclick="targetBlank(this.href);return false;" href="http://www.everyday.whirlwind.nu">check her site out</a> aswell. </p>
<p>This does not mean that I now accept hostees. I can add as many subdomains as I want to for free but adding ftp accounts costs money. This means I&#8217;m sharing my fpt account with the people I&#8217;m hosting but that&#8217;s just because I know and trust them. Hosting is by invitation only. </p>
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		<title>The meaning of life</title>
		<link>http://www.whirlwind.nu/2008/08/27/the-meaning-of-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of people think about why they&#8217;re here on earth and what&#8217;s their purpose in life. I never do that. I don&#8217;t believe my life has a purpose, that I have some sort of destiny awaiting me. I don&#8217;t think I was put on this earth for any particular reason and I don&#8217;t think [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A lot of people think about why they&#8217;re here on earth and what&#8217;s their purpose in life. I never do that. I don&#8217;t believe my life has a purpose, that I have some sort of destiny awaiting me. I don&#8217;t think I was put on this earth for any particular reason and I don&#8217;t think life has some grand <em>meaning</em>. &#8220;The meaning of life&#8221;, you know. I don&#8217;t care about that. I&#8217;m just here.  </p>
<p>What I do think about is how I need my life to be meaningful, to me. How I want to fill my life with wonderful moments and how I want to be happy. To me that&#8217;s the meaning of life. Simply to be happy and to enjoy my time here on earth. I&#8217;m a searcher. I search for something to fill me, complete me and make my life feel wonderful. It could be a place, something to do, a realization, whatever. We all need <em>something</em>. And I don&#8217;t know what I need. I want to move, again. Because I keep thinking that maybe this time around I&#8217;ll find a place where I can be happy. I&#8217;ve moved and totally changed my life twice and sure, thanks to that I&#8217;ve got to see new places, meet new people and experience new things. But did I find my place in the world? Did I find that true happiness? No. But I&#8217;m hoping that maybe, maybe this time I will. </p>
<p>I look for happiness in different places and different things to do but perhaps I should look inside myself. I&#8217;m not sure how to do that though. I don&#8217;t think I can because I happen to be a very cynical person. I think the happiest people are those who don&#8217;t search the world for trills but just like their surroundings. Those who don&#8217;t need grandeur but just enjoy the moment and the small things in life. How could I become like that? I don&#8217;t think I can because I&#8217;ve never been like that. I&#8217;m a dreamer and I always want something different. I always look for something more. </p>
<p>A while ago I came across a blog post where the author asked the question &#8220;If you were to describe yourself with six words, what would those words be?&#8221;. My six words are &#8220;A constant search for something more&#8221;. That&#8217;s me. Never content, always looking for something better, more exciting, more fulfilling. </p>
<p>And I haven&#8217;t found it yet. I&#8217;m twenty-five and I&#8217;ve <em>never</em> liked my life. It&#8217;s quite sad. And seeing how I work perhaps I never will. </p>
<p>EDIT: Meet my new affiliate <a href="http://nancy-solend.com" onclick="targetBlank(this.href);return false;">Nancy</a>!</p>
<p>EDIT 2: AND my new affiliate <a href="http://thefame.sweetdrama.info" onclick="targetBlank(this.href);return false;">Mar</a>!</p>
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