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... from amazon.com. I’m really looking forward to this, since I have wanted to buy it for quite a while. www.postsecret.com is a moving, honest and surprising collection of secrets send on a postcard by ordinary people.

It’s so common to hear the expression ‘ordinary people’ and yet, you still don’t really feel as if you are a part of that group. But the honesty, sadness, joy, fear and compassion which shines through in different ways from each and every postcard, is a true image of humanity. And these people I can relate to, eventhough I haven’t experienced everything everyone writes about, but since it’s so forward and honest it appeals to something inside everyone.

Nobody is perfect. Nobody has perfect lives, perfect parents, children, jobs, boyfriends, girlfriends, childhoods, vacations etc, but it is difficult to talk about because everybody have something different to hide, another experience with the world, let it be good or bad.

What Mr. Johnson, 2nd Avenue, 200 Nowhere Town, hides inside of fears and doubts may be of no obvious relevance to you. But every time I read a postcard, something inside of me shatters and rebuilts in a different way, and I’m not the complete same person I was before. I feel a little bit closer to understand just how different and just how similar everybody is. And right at that moment, I confess to myself just what I keep inside, and I understand the urge to get the burden off the shoulders. To feel that moment of complete freedom and to feel a bit reckless, self-willed and unrestrained, when the postcard slips into the mailbox.

It simply changes your life a little bit, postcard by postcard.

Of course it’s worth doing. Though, It’s not You who are doing it. It’s almost always someone else who do something, say something or make you do something, and suddenly you realize it. You’re being swept completely off your feet.

I was swept off my feet. Ok. It started with a guy. Yeah, yeah, I know it’s the classic story. But hey, listen up. It started with a guy and it ended with a guy. Yep, that’s it. And somewhere in between, he completely swept me off my feet.

So now I just find myself smiling like an idiot – but what the hell, it’s nice to be a smiling idiot.

... or: the start of many hours in front of a screen.
I bought a Fujitsu Siemens laptop, 15,4” with a Centrino Duo processor. Sounds fancy, but really it’s just to make sure that the battery can last longer than an hour.

But to buy a laptop isn’t really the issue is it? well, considered you have the money, it’s Easy to go out and buy a good computer for everyday use. Almost all the laptops you can buy today are of good quality, though of course with several differences in capacity, speed etc.

But it’s all the things you have to do and can do after which can take up hours in your schedule. Setting up anti-virus and firewall, installing Microsoft Office and the new printer, and transferring all the documents and pictures. And then all the fun extra stuff. Skype, MSN Messenger, Nero Express, Canon Zoombrowser, iTunes etc. There are millions of things you can do. And then suddenly I’ve become fanatic with updates and new versions of ‘older’ programs – you can find all the new stuff on the internet for free, just waiting for you to come and get it.

Yeah, i know. You probably knew this. I knew some of it too… But it’s just fun to do. Until the day comes, where you really sighs when the computer asks for a re-start for the 25th time to get the new changes to work.

Now that this is said, I’m really happy with my laptop.