Visit of a friend

Hello my friend,

here I have written a little about myself and as if imagening that I write to an unknown friend ....

what is important to make you happy?

I want to tell you facts about me that are important to you, and since I do not know, I must first ask imaginatively and then ... well, in a question is of course hidden also what I would like somebody to ask me.

Is this that I cite below important to you?

Do you wish for ....

• A friend that is so close that you feel two-some? Company with someone that include the strange and complex word "love"?
• An environment around you that inspires and stimulate, challenges and includes you, think of that environment as "your world"?
• Key assets like freedom, health and money? Behind each of these words are a full landscape of details; sort out some of it for your special wish!
• Belonging to someone and somewhere and thereby creating "meaning of life"?
• Peace of mind; that silence and inner order that allows you to enjoy life in detail?
• The "fire" in your body that create deep satisfaction?
• Any "consumable asset"? One of those that can be bought for money or found out there in the rich world?

Such questions are so difficult that you have to stick to the prime question of your choice and make your own pick of "special" wishes.

Or perhaps it is best for you to think of a single and sole "special" wish just now.

Write it down for your own benefit, and send it eventually over to me.

Do discover what is  your most important need, and  what it can create of response!

I invite you to develop yourself (and others) by sorting out "the most important" element that is valid in your life; the intention is to gain strength and direction to your advantage; and also to make you avoid the elements that make you weak.



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Here are some "facts of life".

They are true,  but the valid truth  in them  you have to dig out yourself.  Truth is only valid when it works. Nothing is really "true" until you have made it a truth.

• Your body needs a lot; food and protection, health and activity, from simple blood circulation to the extacy of sexual fire, and you have to provide  and constantly.
• Your mind is part of your body. Your mind cannot be separated from the body, but your mind has a set of needs that easily tends to divide your attention as if "mind" is not as real as body matter. The fact is that your mind is part of your body.
• Your body is part of the world. The world out there and right where you are is enormous and (only) in part a wonderful and accessible option. Much of the world is also strange and even "closed country", inaccessible or a threath. You are a part of "the world", where are you? Define your place with the limits (or frontiers) that you have to life in general.
  
• You are an owner. You own something. Think of all kind of your assets. You may own money, but think of yourself as an asset too and include as much of other assets as you can imagine just now. Ownership means right (and duty) to decide. Ownership opens up life, but only if you manage your belongings. (Time is also a belonging!)
  

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Would you like to know something about me?
And write to this journal and eventually get a response from you and of value.


I am Hakon Kragerud (in Norwegian writing I am Håkon Kragerud, the letter "å" is not existing in the English alphabet) and I am born in Norway in 1930, yes, a long time ago.

I am a male human, a bit different thereby from the females, and for the rest I am quite "normal". (Normality is a rich variety.)

I live (alone) in the south of France and in a comfortable house and with a small car (Golf 1987 model well taken care of)  that takes me around when I do not go further in a camping car that functions as my  summer house  and mostly  for my visits in northern Europe.

Yes, I am retired, as you have guessed from my birth year. But I am active in many ways.
As an architect for private homes, as an city planner (without commissions), as a writer and artist and as a friend and for friends that mostly do not live in my region (I love to see them come around or when I travel).

I also advice and in many ways.

This is my very start of this journal (blog). I will soon bring in a picture or more pictures to add to the short words here.

What do I like?

Likings tell very much about a man (e.g. a human being).

I like to walk the mountains, I like to discover nature and not only by watching landscapes, even more I like reading and reflecting about natural science and technology.

I was for many years a mountain guide, earlier I did sport sailing and atlethics (gymnastics), but my more basic traits are connected to reading and writing and brain work (I am not the author of books).

I do like to cook and to decorate, but not so much when I am alone.

I am able to follow an inquisitive discussion of many themes that has do to with natural science (physics and neurobiology) and within the great landscape called philosophy (where you also find psychology and religion if using my oldfashined definition of philosophy).

Politics is interesting in itself, but I have a distant relation and tend to think in time laps of twenty or fifty years; I think that is unpolitical.

I am also a repairman, a handyman and a boy scout type that likes to keep things in order and even if it is better to "throw away and buy".

It may have to do with my deep longing to be independent and free to manage "without". Children sometimes have to manage that way, and I had to, and especially during war time and in some years thereafter when shops had little to offer and I earned no money for quite some time.

I gave priority to discovery, "made the world" (e.g. Italy, Finland, Israel, Japan, USA) and I have never regretted it.

Do I have "weak points"?
We all have. I am timid.

What it really means is not fully clear to me. I cannot find good and short words for my timidity. But think of the true or eventually false timidity that is present in persons (and animals) that do not feel secure. That shoud give you a hint.

I am not the worst one to hide my timidity, and sometimes I do overcompensate.

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Well then, I leave now the thinking and writing to you.
You can easily (just fill in below) send me a response.

I am thankful if you arrange your writing somewhat in this way:

• Facts that you demand to be accepted as true
  
• Questions that are important to you
• Questions that you want me to reflect upon
• Information and information sources that support these facts and questions.

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You do not find my full name and address and many details here.
I am not for secrecy. But I act with some discretion according to advice and also lacking experience in communicating in this way.
This is therefore my restricted start of my journey out there where you are.

Have a good day.

              Says Hakon (Håkon Kragerud)  email  123jeff@free.fr

PS  You may write in Norwegian, French, German, Danish or Swedish if that is your preferred langugage.

Comments

[jeff]

I could not stay conencted to my ISP (provider), sometimes when not active for some time, the connection broke and always if I left the machine over night.

I had to restart the machine to get contact again.

I found a software called Registry Mechanic 5.1
I downloaded it on a test basis for free.

It found 138 errors in my registers.

I use Win98.When I restarted, "it" corrected all.
Now I am lookin forward to easier days.

Jeff