Do your duty, demand your right

Wow. It's been a strange year. So motionless, yet eventful. It is about my age where people decide that "I'm going to find myself" and goes travelling the world or joins the army to go to Afghanistan or something. In my case, it's been the other way around. Myself has found I, I have been standing still all the time:

I've spent the year attending NITH, a school which was interesting but too expensive and eventually just not my cup of tea.
I had my last exam last Tuesday, last Wednesday I started working as an electrician for the summer. I had forgotten how much I miss the companionship of a workplace. The sense of a common purpose, standing shoulder to shoulder to solve tasks. And I get to make things. Creating is such a wonderful thing to do.

For various reasons, my goals in life have changed, matured. Old and new thoughts have blossomed and shaped each other. I realise now how social-democratic my mother really is, how the ideals of sharing and egalitarianism has been showered over me throughout my entire life (Try saying "Norge er en dugnad" to my mum"). Then there's my history teacher last year, who got me really interested in foreign politics. More than ever I enjoyed looking for the patterns, links and the way history repeats itself. Sometimes subtly, sometimes obviously.

The invigorated interest for politics and the financial crisis has caused my mother's teachings to surface I think.

The title of this post is translated from the title of a book. The book is called "Gjør din plikt, krev din rett" and is the biography of Yngve Hågensen, former leader of the labour union LO.

I like the title, it sums it up. You do what you're expected to do, but you also demand what is yours. You work and contribute to society, but you also demand things like the right to vote and to have freedom of speech.

I used to just be interested in foreign politics, but now I realise that every fraction of managing society seems interesting. Not the political pitfights and masquerading, but the chance to make things better for other people. To combine one's creativity and resources with other people's creativity and resources to improve society.

I realise that my meaning in life is to give back to society, a society where people lift their burdens together. Together because they want to.




Yes. Slightly dramatic, with the odd cliché kissing you in the face. Well, I can't be arsed to rewrite it.

Science!

I got a 5 (like a B) on my A level math!!1111!111

That means I'm qualified for NTNU, Norway's university for doing 5 year engineering degrees! Oh sweet science!

As Luke Skywalker said:

"Fuck the Force Kenobi, I can do vectorial equations!"



Aaaaaah, I'm so happy right now! A five!

Happy May the 1st!

Happy May the 1st peoples!
A bird shat on me at Youngstorget. That was a bit of a letdown:(

Aaaaaarg!!

Last night I wasted about 30 minutes on equations because I misread a task in my taskbook. Tonight I spent about an hour on solving a task that turned out to be unsolvable:(

God's Eye

Pretty.

The impressive part is that it's not a picture made by man. It's the actual result of a dying star, some 700 light years away from Earth. That thing exists out there, and it looks exactly like that.