Season of Spring

Time seems to be something I'm missing a lot of. It's already May and it's almost a month since the last update. Then again, I've excused myself so many times before I don't have anything new to say about it without repeating all my other excuses. Anyway, as it is the beginning of May it only means one thing, Walpurgis Night. Once again we participate in our ancient pagan rituals to bestow fertility to the earth and celebrate the coming of spring. I've heard somewhere that you can see an increase of birthrates 9 months after each bigger holiday in Sweden which would indicate that in December/January we will see the result of this holiday... December? But I'm born in December... that means...

Anyway, it was also the first time I was home during these since I moved to Karlstad 5 years ago. Grandpa celebrated his 80 birthday a bit early when everyone was gathered so I had to travel home. It's a construction site at home trying to renovate it after almost 15 years of neglect. The door to my room was gone so it was a bit hard to go to sleep with lights, sounds and what not, luckily the cat was no where to be seen so she couldn't steal my pillow anyway. And then it was Labour Day, the real labour day on May 1, not the one in September. And as usual it's more a recovering hangover day for the most of us, except the red parties who do their demonstration walk. This has always fascinated me since the workers union and the Social Democratic party has been together since 1889 and has during the last 70 years been in power, so what are you really demonstrating against? Frankly, the whole Swedish society is built after the social democratic idea and ideology. They are demonstrating against themselves (much more obvious when they were in power).

So you probably guessed I didn't go, not surprising since I see myself as a liberal (that is a right-wing ideology in Sweden for those who come from countries with a different ideological spectrum). Frankly, I'm the only in the family I guess. At least I can argue my perspective after 5 years studies in politics, economics and law (plus some other courses I've taken during the years). I wonder what happens in the rest of the world when I was gone... Bin Laden been killed? Holy Sh...