A Hipster’s Guide to…: Silver linings (part 2)

Again me with something that almost looks like silver lining – or star trekesque lense flare, dependent on outlook

As a continuation of my Easter project of finding and documenting silver linings in my life, that I explained on my blog yesterday, here are some more silver linings I have found today, I hope they might also give you a smile on your lip, or at least a smile because I found it smile worthy.

 

Silver lining #1

This is a gallery of the walk me and my boyfriend took with his two teenagers, his teenage girl, who is the energetic goofy type of teenager who is still looking to make all sorts of mischief and mayhem, and his teenage boy who is the sort of “Come on, do I really have to take part in any of this, it is soooo not my thing” type of teenager. This also meant that there are very few pictures of him, since he spend most of the trip being more or less a sour apple, but this also have its own charm, and at least you get to laugh at him 😉

But it was really a great trip, where we went on adventures, raced each other, and found an obstacle course built out of tree logs, that we could goof around on. All in all there were lots of laughter, lots of red cheeks from the exercise and lots of smiles because most of us were being foolish in different ways. You forget sometimes how much fun it is to just go along with everything instead of acting so goddamn grown up all the time.

Why Snorkmaiden?

I thought I would start the blog out by explaining why I personally associate myself with Snorkmaiden, in such a way that I use her in the title of my blog.

Since I was a child, I have always been a very “grown up” kind of child. The sort of child, that when you had had dealings with me, you would probably go away thinking: ”What an odd child”.

This continued up through my teens, where people would think I was substantially older than I actually was (like someone thinking I was 30, when I was 19). I have always been aware of this “acting older than my age”, and it has often been something that I have taken pride in, and still occasionally do.

However, what does this have to do with Snorkmaiden? She is probably the opposite of what I have just described.

Well, to be perfectly honest, this acting older than my age, made me a very serious young woman, and made me take myself way too seriously. All this seriousness made me less able to enjoy life… Enjoy myself and enjoy being silly.

This made me try to find a way to be less serious, to make it more of a balance thing, where I can be serious when needed, but I do not have to be serious all the time.

This made my boyfriend call me Snorkmaiden, when he needed me to cheer up and be less serious, and less old. As time has gone by, Snorkmaiden has become a part of my personality. The part that:

Enjoys jumping up and down in puddles of water when going for a walk

Loves dancing when she is feeling happy

Is only 7½ years old and thinking she is the most beautiful, amazing and badass person in the universe

Thinks all problems can be solved with enough chocolate, hot cocoa and large pillows

Shouts “ASS” really loudly when something is not going her way

Gets happy when she sees flowers or small birds

…and many other things as well.

It might sound a bit trivial and maybe even stupid, but Snorkmaiden helps me on a daily basis remain a sane and balanced person that is able to enjoy life as much as possible. For this Snorkmaiden needed to be a part of the blog, because I am basically a Snorkmaiden that has grown up and knows when to be a serious adult, and when to be an enthusiastic Snorkmaiden…