Ragnchild

Lots of times, I have wondered about the concept of art. The thing is, when we start talking about it, it turns out that people have very different understanding of what art really is. Some would say that everything created by a human is art, since it is a form of expressing ourselves. A table falls under this definition, but I wouldn’t call it art.

For me, art has to involve something with feelings, or at least expressing the side of our self that we don’t usually express, something more personal than the fact that you know how to make a rectangle and put four sticks under it. However, many things involve feelings, some people argue that a dot on a canvas expresses something for the person who made it. Well, maybe it does, but I still wouldn’t call it art. When I was thinking about it, I realized that art for me involves some kind of skill, a five year old hammering away at a piano isn’t creating art, no matter how much emotion there is to it. Continue reading A definition of art and a salad please

After becoming thoroughly irritated by loosing an hour after turning the clocks today, I decided to write a post about this particular topic. You see, it’s not the loss of an hour, but the whole concept that irritates me. Simply because in my opinion, daylight saving time is the wrong way around.

You see, by nature, the winter has short days and the summer long days, and what daylight saving time does is increase this difference. This means that in Norway, at the most extreme, we get about 20 hours of darkness in the winter and 20 hours of light in the summer. In my opinion, they should change the system so that it minimized the difference, not the other way around. Yes, I know that it saves us a lot of energy, but you have to remember that lots of people here get winter depressions from the lack of light, which must surely cost a lot. Of course I’m looking forward to the summer, but I don’t need that long days if it means a winter where the only time of day you can glimpse the sun is during school hours.

No, really, I’m not writing this to convince you that you can change your whole life just by learning 3, 7 or x (where x lies in R) ways of positive thought. This is just something I’ve been thinking about lately. In my opinion, your life might already be changed without you knowing it. Try this experiment: think of a bad thing that might happen to you. Then think about what you would wish for in that situation. Probably just the life you’re living now. I know, that might sound a bit weird, but think about it.

Many people who have had their life changed drastically for the worse, wish for nothing else than a normal life again. They think along the lines of “If that car had just come a little later, if I had lived a bit different, if I just hadn’t said that …”. Well, you are that case. You probably walked past 30 cars today, and none of them hit you. You may have talked to your friends or family without getting into a bad argument, and your lungs have consumed about 11.000 liters (fact) of air without malfunctioning. Continue reading A slightly new perspective on things