Lifestyle

I have a dream; one my girl and I share, and one that has taken us to a new place where life is simpler and more peaceful, where we have fewer things, warmer weather, and access to great education for our children, with a fundamental focus on sustainability. Everything starts with a dream of something better, something […]

Time is the most valuable thing we really have or own (also discussed in this post), and we even seem to have a cultural and societal agreement hereon, which materialises in sayings like “time flies”, “life is short”, “the children grow so fast” or “our children are only on loan” and so on. Therefore, it […]

Let’s create something of perceived value, which for the sake of simplicity, we’ll call X that we can buy things with, sell things for – and in the situation that we are able to accumulate enough of it, we can lend it to others for more X. Due to the fact that most people consider […]

I recently stumbled upon the term Degrowth, and felt inclined to look further into it. Especially since I could sense that the term was positively charged, and thereby by definiton in opposition to the prevailing view on growth as something positively progressive. The term degrowth has its origin in the French word Décroissance, was introduced […]

Recently I have re-read German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche‘s “Thus spoke Zarathustra” – and I have nodded and smiled, and even laughed on several occasions. What a book! What a celebration of living to the fullest, and of living courageously. In the book Nietzsche unfolds an existentialist development theory, similar to e.g. French Philosopher Simone de Beauvoir‘s […]