Frustration of the unemployed and recently graduated

As I watched the Glee crew channel their senior year through music and cheesy ways of showing us all the story of how difficult making choices about the future can be, I realised that, that feeling is not reserved for all the youngsters choosing which direction one's education should take and what to become. The truth is despite already making all the choices and feeling that frustration which follows life-choices. Despite making through the education you have chosen, the feeling of being lost in yourself is still there afterwards. Or at least for some of us. Because then the choices regarding which career to pursue arrives. The doubt. What if I chose wrong? What if what once was the right choice in my heart is the opposite of what it wants today? And, by the way, who am I now without school, books and ambition of getting straight top-grades all the way through? - Which I by the way didn't. 

I don't know where I am going. I don't know where I will end. I know that I on one side is safe. Whatever the future may hold I am strong. I know what I want. Or at least some of what I want (apparently having to do with anything else but a job) - and truth is, despite this being a completely out of the ordinary thing to say, a job is not going to define who I am. I am not going to let it. 

frustration over and out. 

Everyday Tales: From serious to fun and everything in between

2nd of August: Rest In Peace and May God protect you Jytte. Your funeral was beautiful! However, I am still paying the price for eating not so glutenfree or milkfree cake. #Anotherbeautifulsoulhaslefttheearth 

5th of August: I have discovered that watching too much Gilmore Girls makes me talk really fast and outburst with inappropriate, yet funny if I may say so myself, comments to other people at inappropriate times. #LOVEGilmoreGirls #waitingforthenewseason #LukeandLorelaiforever #Rory:GetbackwithJess

5th of August: After a little stressfull week due to planning and responsibilities, I am going to Vejle and celebrate my very good friends bachelorette party!! Hopefully she will love it and we are going to have so much fun. One of my responsibilities was the making of a personalised board-game, centred around her. Don't worry she looooves boardgames! #Proudofmycreativity #Hopeshelikesit #Bacheloretteoftheyear 

10-14th of August: Amazing holiday in Barcelona! Oatmeal porridge for breakfast, lunch and dinner the rest of the year! #gottaloveholiday #traveltraveltravel #nothingliketravellingthatcanmakeyoueconomicallyblind

The perks of being unemployed

It is probably the most frustrating being passionate, interested and finished an education within one specific field, however, not being able to find the job within this field - and when one does find a job within this one competes with what seems like several hundred other people. 

I will always argue that one should choose education by heart and not by reason, because I argue that it is easier to act with reason within a field you are passionated about - like working voluntarily within the field in order to gain experience and knowledge of a field one is passionated about. But we are all different and work differently. 

In my situation, where I find seeking for a job the same as climbing the worlds biggest mountain and I am frustrated by not knowing what or where I will end I hold on to the fact that there will be brighter days and hopefully one of those will have a job in store for me. 

Good Tuesday to you all. 

What to think about Islam?

I am not a Muslim. I am a Christian. 

Thus - for obvious reasons - I do not know the intimate details about having a religious affiliation to Islam as I do as to Christianity. 

However, I do have an education in the study of religion and do read the newspapers and follow steadily in the news. And I do see the different profiles we, talking from a Danish point of view, are fed up with about Islam and how we are being told how to think about Muslims. 

Now, talking from a Christian perspective, I do have some fingers to point towards the things I think people have too much attention on and too little. For instance, I think Christians are generally too concerned about getting a family and very little concerned about those who don't. We talk too much about "Of course you will find the one" and too little about "What if I don't?". Or, what about the subject of sex?! I refuse to believe that the ones trying hardly to keep up the facade as the "I waited until marriage" that they did not in any way have sexual feelings towards their husband before they married! How about we talk a little more about that instead of having yet another "so this is how I am as a parent/husband"-reference in yet another sermon. (I will admit that I might have had a little too much bottled up here and some of the examples maybe can only be followed by fellow Christians, but I hope you get the point). 

Therefore, I am a Christian, that do find faults in the Christian milieu I tend to move within. Because in the end I believe we are all human. We all make mistakes. I believe that if we could be perfect among one another, God didn't have to interfere. But enough about what I believe and back to the "society critics" I am supposed to be doing in these Monday blogs. 

I find that society today tends to point a little too much on the Muslims as terrorists, radicals and dangerous. So, when Pope France stood up and refused to point his finger at fellow Muslims, I believed he pointed towards a general flaw in our society. A flaw in the way things are moving regarding compassion for other human beings despite religious, political or cultural affiliation. I found his comments relevant. Because, I know some politics wants me to believe that everyone who affiliate with Islam are dangerous, because Islam is a violent religion - but the thing is, I have met a lot of muslims that acted and believed in peaceful co-existens between Muslims and Jews in Israels. So why is it we cannot have the same main idea in Europe? Why is it that Muslims should be to blame for a violent culture, when Europe was the one that have destroyed tribes and cultures in the Middle East and Africa historically? What about all the crusades that took it to be their mission to take back Jerusalem? Haven't Christianity been a violent religion too? 

I do not believe that religion is to blame for war. I believe we as selfish, discriminating human beings is - and I believe we sometimes use religion as a way to authorise religion. But I also think that we sometimes use religion to authorise a certain view on a group of people who doesn't necessarily have a violent world view. 

Sometimes I can't help but wonder if this view that the media and the politicians often feeds us with is the very reason that some Muslims do come to regard a violent world view as the only way to make us respect them - a common respect I believe we all have the right to have. 

Everyday Tales: Tales from the unemployed! Oh, and a little on the fact that I am bikeless.

This was the week my bike got stolen. Living in a country where a bike is essential in order to get around, I must admit I got angry and sad and annoyed! Not having a bike in Denmark is like not eating a croissant in France or not eating pizza in Italy. #MYpropertynotyours #DoNOTtouchmystuff

This was also the week I got to experience the glory of being unemployed in Denmark! Yay for civil systems that makes you not money-less even though you are a newly educated graduate without a job! #Sorryforgloating #IlovetheDanishsystem

However, this is also a week of self reflection, as I am still rather lost regarding the business and work-marked! #Wheretobegin #WhoamI #WhatdoIwannado #Selflifecrisis #Argh!!!!

Ending this blog on a more happy note I have managed to make this summer Cakes specials three or four times (imaged down bellow). Both glutenfree and milkfree pieces of heaven. The Cheesecake recipe is in Danish and you can find it here! #Ifyourdanishtryitout #heaveninacake #eatingcakemakesmelovelife #notetoself:Importanttomakecheesecaketheeveningbeforehavingtoeatit!

My "to-read" this summer

I am a book-worm. Not that I will claim to be the fastest reader on this planet or anything like Rory Gilmore who apparently have read every classic there is. I just love to read. Making a new world. Experience the world through my imagination. Every summer I have make this mental note on all the books I just have to read this summer.

This summer I commit myself to reading/finish reading following books:


1. Khaled Hosseini, "And the mountains echoed" (Yeah, it's been on the shelve for a while).

2. Robert G aka J. K. Rowling, "The Cuckoo's Calling" (I looove J. K. Rowling).

3. Aydin Soei, "Forsoning" (The book began a trial... I have to know what that's all about).

4. Jakob Sheikh, "Danmarks Børn i Hellig Krig" (I have almost finished this one. Just needs to finish the last couple of pages).

5. Joyce Carol Oates, "The Accursed" (I am 200 pages from finished. Nice and weird).

6. Umberto Eco, "The Prague Cemetery" (Favourite author of all time!!!!).

7. Jussi Adler-Olsen, "Den Grænseløse" (Give me a day or two).

8. Jeremy Bowen, "The Arab Uprisings" (I love the Middle East. I just wants to know everything.).

9. Niels Frank, "Nellies Bog" (It is written in a weird way, I just have to know more about).

10. Abdul Rahman Munif, "Cities of Salt" (This book have been banished in some countries in the Middle East. That fact alone made me curious).

11. Timothy Keller, "The Reason for God" (I love Timothy Keller's preachings!).

12. Veronica Roth, "Divergent" (I loved the movie - need to read the book.).


I guess, by publicly declaring here what I am reading this summer, I have to read them all. If you have any good suggestion to a good book I need to read, please - do share.


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Everyday Tales: Santa in CPH, Gilmore Girls Marathon and IKEA-madness

Met Santa today (Monday, 18th of July)- or Santas. Very revealing to the children who believe in Santa, when around a hundred people all pretend to be Santa. Another thing is that the stores are very VERY early in celebrating and  decorating for christmas.. Now we can meet santa in the middle of july as well! Christmas-stress is already setting in... #Childconfusion #Whostherealsanta #Weareinthemiddleofjuly

I have begun my Gilmore Girls marathon in preparation for the new episodes! Yay. I admit, I might have been fast forwarding through some of the episodes (I'm almost sure I've seen the series a million times) but it is an amazing show! #Lookingforwardtothenewepisodes #GILMOREGIRLSISKING #waitingforPaulAnka

Taking care of my sisters dog. An amazing little thing. We went for a run together, because she has a LOT of energy, so I thought she would be more normal and a little less like the squirrel from "Over the Hedge". I succeeded, but now she's been sleeping almost all day... #shellbeapaintonight #Imafraidshellpeeallovermyroom

With my brother in IKEA buying him a new bed this webdebat. My brother to me: "I hadn't imagined the bed being so big!" - he bought a double, 160x200 instead of the smaller version 120x200. #Iguessyoushouldhavebeenthere #helpingbrohelphimself