2013-06-07
To Alfons on his
graduation from the Swedish equivelant to ”high school”
Today offically marks
the end of your basic schooling. However wonderful we can make it,
it is just the period written at the end of this first chapter of basic preparation
in 'learning' – A learning that in reality never ends in
our lives. There will doublessly be a 'next chapter' in this process
, and we understand that you are just begining to work on some of
the captions for these next chapters. Alfons, we are glad for this,
but at the same time we as your parents realize that we will likely
be less involved in these next chapters, than has been our privelage
in these first years of your schooling.
Information, truth and
knowledge are extremely important factors in dealing with the
choices in life that direct our course. The choices that hopefully
will hélp us to fill our lives with meaning, and with harmony, and
beauty -- and most of all with personal fullfillment. That is why
you have gone to school. – and that is why it is important to
continue this process of learning. We as your parents certainly want
your life to be filled with all these wonderful things.
One word of warning
Alfons. The greatest problems in this world we live in, and even the
greatest problems in personal life are most often
not made because of a lack of knowledge or lack of
capacity to understand – The biggest mistakes in life are made when
we choose to ignore the truth that we are aware of –and instead base
our choices on a deceptive kind of 'truth' we have manufactured by
deleting the information that contradicts our own agenda . ”Willful
blindness” is a common ailment of the human race –
The world of religious
difference that tears our world apart, is created by this simple
unwillingness to give a moment of honest evaluation to the reality
and truth of day to day life , but instead beligerantly 'insist' and
then regard moral conflict and
contempt as a virtue, as we find difference in our efforts to
explain what is in honest reality the unknown and unexplainable for
us all. This is especially true of
the self-centered forms of religion that in amazing
self-righteousness claim
an organisational monopoly on truth.
Political difference
is also most often built on the unjust balance of 'facts' weighing
lighter than than the human will to simply overcome the adversary or
opponent at
any cost.
In personal life the
refusal to face and deal with the ”other perspective” in our
differences is even more fatal to relationship.
Alfons we are so proud
of you for your will and capacity to study and learn. – This is the
basis of wisdom .. but when the issue is truth .. don't use the
treacherous ”pick and choose what suits” method - Regardless the truth
involved, this is in reality, closer to
ignorance than it is to knowledge.
Alfons, we as parents
spend a good part of our lives trying to understand our children
–sometimes but not always suceeding. Sometimes this helps us
understand ourselves.
I have found a Danish
singer (Kim Larsen - born the same year as me!!) that it would seem has written a song to explain how he has
understood his childrens feelings on life.
Here is a link to Kim
Larsens 'This is my life'
-- Listen to the words-
Proudly from your mom and dad!
Link to some pictures of the event |