There isn’t much of the course left, and I must say all this thinking about the future has gotten me in a sort of overall optimistic mood. In one management course on Stockholm School of Economics, one of our teachers mentioned that in the modernistic era, nine out of ten people have this mindset that the future is much brighter than the past and those who don’t dream back to some state of the lost Eden. In that moment, I felt I belonged to the minority. Perhaps that’s why I was very, very moved by the Swedish film Farväl Falkenberg last year. You who have seen it can probably figure why. There is this little line in the film: “Jag tittar bakåt”, which I in its context thinks summarizes and opens up the whole story.
I look back at things and times way too much. I live in my past and value memories more than the moment. I miss people I had and lost. I can’t get over it. “Vad man har betyder inget, vad man mist betyder allt” to make use of another Hjalmar Söderberg quote.
But then I realize the best is still to come. Funny things happen all the time. Life takes new turns. I’ve never thought so much of the future as I’ve done the recent time. And I like it. I think we’ll make it there.
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