It is taking some pain growing up realizing that the world doesn´t revolve around you. As a matter of fact, it doesn´t even have your father or mother as its center. You learn to accept that Hugos father could be stronger, and that there actually are other people deciding about cruical parts of your life.

Some time later you start to realize that due to historical wars, at least in the calmer parts of the world, states have been formed. Some are big. Being from Sweden with today nine million inhabitants, I was baffled by countries like India, or China, and still today I have difficulties coming to grips with how it must be living in a country like England/GB or the US. So many people, so many thoughts, so many expressions of human life I just can´t bear the thouht of it. It is like a soup about to boil; all of these people trying to make theyre way through the challenges of life. All these shattered and fulfilled dreams. And all of those disappointments, which tend to break some in the long run, while making others stronger, and more prune to hurt others.

While I was going on baffling about findings like these, I also came to understand that the earth is not the center of everything, nor is the sun. I was told that it takes light eight minutes to reach us from the sun, but i takes light four years to reach the closest star. On top of this our galaxy consist of billions stars, the galaxy itself was just one out of zillions...

And not only will the strange ways of life hit me with massive distances or populations in order to diminish little me. It also takes literally ages as its weapon of minimizing the importance of my existence. I am told that around 10 000 years ago man started the agricultural era. 10 000 years. Wow, that is some time... i mean... my grandfather was born in 1890, he was 49 when WW2 started. Nothing. Then I learned that from a geological point of view, 10 000 years was nothing to even bother about. Give us a 100 000 years and we can at least start talking erosion, and if you look closely, you will be able to notice a movement of tectonic plates. Give us a 1000 000 years, and we will notice some significabnt development when it comes to new species. Give us 10 000 000 years and a whole lot will have happened. But the earth is 5 000 000 000 years old. OK! I UNDERSTAND MY INSIGNIFICANCE, BUT WHY THE EXAGGERATIONS ALL THE TIME???!!! I GET THE MESSAGE!!!

I don´t know what to say more but: It is big and old and complicated out there girls and boys! Take care and do something nice, before time is putting its spell on you, and locks you up in its vast reservoir of nothingness. For ever.

Any more beer anyone?