Prejudice
Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 12:11 pm
Well, I don't really know how to get this one started! A lot of people we know, love and care about. Complete strangers and even my own son thinks both I and Jette are complete nutshells and crazy wanting to live on wheels...
Actually I have met so much prejudice, since I announced my plans to move into a home on wheels, that I'm stunned and amazed!! Who the F¤%& do people think they are, judging me for wanting to live the way I like???!!!!
I don't understand things like that... Maybe I'm naive - but all humans have different dreams for themselves, and maybe they do not all come thru - but the best of people, in my oppinion, are those that make do with whatever little they have. And with their own skills, hands, knowledge and creativity makes a life and a living for themselves.
My father calls me a 'hippie'...?! Well, maybe I am. But I don't look like one (- apart from having grown a beard over the past weeks!), and what if I am? What were ever wrong with the hippies? Who did they harm? I have been rich on money twice in my life, and lost everything twice too. I don't complain, and I don't envy other people having more possesions than I do - on the contrary, I love when people are having succes, or being succesful in any way they want to!!! But I also assume people to respect me for what I am, how I live and not for what I own...!!!
Have you ever experienced any prejudice against yourself for living on wheels???
This is a picture taken at "Lane Studio" in Medicin Hat, Alberta in the 1930'ties. It pictures my greatgrandfather and his family who immigrated to Canada in 1915. My grandmother is the girl sitting in the chair. All the children were born in Medicin Hat. My greatgrandmother got sick overthere, so they went home to Denmark (unfortunately). Or else I might have been Canadian...
My great grandfather was a restless man. Maybe that's were I have it from. He wanted to go to America already in 1912, and bought a ticket for Titanic(!) But my greatgrandmother felt she was too young to follow him, so he waited another 3 years... Glad he did though!
I posted this to show how small the world really is, and how close we all are connected..!!
Actually I have met so much prejudice, since I announced my plans to move into a home on wheels, that I'm stunned and amazed!! Who the F¤%& do people think they are, judging me for wanting to live the way I like???!!!!
I don't understand things like that... Maybe I'm naive - but all humans have different dreams for themselves, and maybe they do not all come thru - but the best of people, in my oppinion, are those that make do with whatever little they have. And with their own skills, hands, knowledge and creativity makes a life and a living for themselves.
My father calls me a 'hippie'...?! Well, maybe I am. But I don't look like one (- apart from having grown a beard over the past weeks!), and what if I am? What were ever wrong with the hippies? Who did they harm? I have been rich on money twice in my life, and lost everything twice too. I don't complain, and I don't envy other people having more possesions than I do - on the contrary, I love when people are having succes, or being succesful in any way they want to!!! But I also assume people to respect me for what I am, how I live and not for what I own...!!!
Have you ever experienced any prejudice against yourself for living on wheels???
This is a picture taken at "Lane Studio" in Medicin Hat, Alberta in the 1930'ties. It pictures my greatgrandfather and his family who immigrated to Canada in 1915. My grandmother is the girl sitting in the chair. All the children were born in Medicin Hat. My greatgrandmother got sick overthere, so they went home to Denmark (unfortunately). Or else I might have been Canadian...
My great grandfather was a restless man. Maybe that's were I have it from. He wanted to go to America already in 1912, and bought a ticket for Titanic(!) But my greatgrandmother felt she was too young to follow him, so he waited another 3 years... Glad he did though!
I posted this to show how small the world really is, and how close we all are connected..!!