Philip Warkander wrote a text in Expressen ( 20/2), if a column I wrote in the DN ( 14/2), on the social medietrenden about Marie Kondo. Warkander writes that he does not understand what I mean: ”what is really Lidbecks case?”. Here, a new attempt to explain a little more clearly.
comments on the katakana. Or that you wish to live minimalist. Or sustainable. I can only congratulate those who have the economic freedom to choose exclusively selected groceries and products.
We live (still) in a climate where children need shoes on their feet. The shoes will be with the time worn. Inherit siblings in addition of each other, having inherited of his cousins, it is pretty shabby shoes they have. These shoes give me no a special energy when I touch them. They give me the gravel. And that’s life. Full of gravel.
(primarily women) to achieve perfection and stripped-down aesthetics in the home is not straightforward. To clean takes time. A simple equation: every minute I put on to feel how I feel about those, unfortunately for many of us, the necessary things in everyday life, is a minute I don’t think any alternative view. It is now free to think about potatisskalaren, the, toapappersrullen and the sock with the hole in it. Absolutely. I think, however, continue to use the broken sock without a second thought.
do not force their children to only value the same things that I value. Or force them to live in a home where only my values guide. As long as they want to play with their broken loppisfyndade toys, or collected gatukapsyler, emotionally charged sticks and cut-out newspaper images of cats and chocolate bars, so they may be doing it. Without I necessary understand the charm. It’s called compromise.
A tv-programme of pragmatic compromises around the everyday small annoyances, might not be a box office hit. But the difference between life and fiction is that life does not need to be a success to be worth something. It is enough with a little gravel.
to be very, very clear, once again. No shadow of shintoism!
