Sep. 18th, 2020 09:52 am
One childhood memory and one quote
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oakfarmOne lesson from elementary school that I remember was when we had a visitor, an author. She, the author, said that all writers write about their childhood. Since her childhood wasn’t that great, her novel characters all ended up having difficulties in life. Then she added that Astrid Lindgren had a happy childhood and everyone who has read her can see that. Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002) the creator of Pippi Longstocking, if I need to add that.
Anyway, the reason I write down that is that I just saw the Astrid Lindgren quote: "’It's not easy to be a child’ I read in a newspaper and was most surprised, because it is not every day you read something in the newspapers that is really true." So I remember that lesson and thought: “What do you mean? If not even Astrid Lindgren thought it was easy to be a child, what hope is there for other children?”
Actually I also remember that her first son had it rough. She had him when she was nineteen, out of wedlock and he spent his first years in foster care. Well, the thing is that Astrid Lindgren of course most have been in contact with children and grownups with bad childhoods. Maybe she didn’t think about herself. Then, people like to think that Pippi Longstocking is the reason Greta Thunberg is Swedish. Reading Astrid Lindgren to your children will increase the chance they become activists. However the point being, I think it’s safe to say that Thunberg hasn’t had a great childhood. I acctually find Thunberg similary to Ghandi. People living for activism and living as they teach (hope the last makes sense in English). But that's another story.
Another Astrid Lindgren quote is: "Everything great that happened in the world first happened in someone's imagination." That’s nicer.
Anyway, the reason I write down that is that I just saw the Astrid Lindgren quote: "’It's not easy to be a child’ I read in a newspaper and was most surprised, because it is not every day you read something in the newspapers that is really true." So I remember that lesson and thought: “What do you mean? If not even Astrid Lindgren thought it was easy to be a child, what hope is there for other children?”
Actually I also remember that her first son had it rough. She had him when she was nineteen, out of wedlock and he spent his first years in foster care. Well, the thing is that Astrid Lindgren of course most have been in contact with children and grownups with bad childhoods. Maybe she didn’t think about herself. Then, people like to think that Pippi Longstocking is the reason Greta Thunberg is Swedish. Reading Astrid Lindgren to your children will increase the chance they become activists. However the point being, I think it’s safe to say that Thunberg hasn’t had a great childhood. I acctually find Thunberg similary to Ghandi. People living for activism and living as they teach (hope the last makes sense in English). But that's another story.
Another Astrid Lindgren quote is: "Everything great that happened in the world first happened in someone's imagination." That’s nicer.
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