imperfectlife
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where the next story begins
One of the things I can not resist is dropping by a bookstore. This time it was right after the swedish course when passing by on of the Stockholm’s second-hand bookstore I decided to check if there was a Swedish-English dictionary. Helping me to find the book I asked for, the owner of the bookstore (he was in his 50s) mentioned that he also had a Spanish-Swedish dictionary. I thanked him and smiled in reply telling that it kinda useless in my case. “No, - said the owner, - nothing is useless … there is always next life that comes”. And than he proceeded: “maybe it is your next life”. I paid for English-Swedish and Swedish-Swedish dictionaries, thanked the owner for the idea and admitted I had never thought in this way before. ‘
Ridiculous but fact: I have spent hours chatting with some people, days hanging around other people and in most cases I would not remember most of things we talked about; and now, the conversation with the stranger that has lasted at most 3 minutes becomes something I am blogging about.
Waste Not
“Waste Not is an installation created by chinese artist Song Dong in New York Museum of Modern Art. One will find there around 15 000 things (clothes, shoes, plastic botles and so on) of Songs Dong’s mother who has never thrown away a single thing during all her entire life” (extract from Esquire in my free translation from Russian - Esquire, Jan 2010, pp.28-29).
Article caught my attention cause after I had read the headline I remembered depthless wardrobes of my beloved grandma … For already 10 years my sister and I have been trying to empty those. We were taking granny’s clothes, bags and shoes cause such wardrobes are simply a treasury for us who hate mass-fashion. However, wardrobes are still difficult to close.
It is either a new or just forgotten concept that there is always another way to utilize and there is always a way not to waste.
