Ugh, It's only 8pm and I'm tired. I think I'll be going to bed early tonight!
Being utterly terrified of eventual marriage in the future is weird. It must be a Swedish thing. Most girls here are married by 24! And probably have their first kid! Which I still think is too early since most of them end up in divorce after divorce... not good for the kids at all! But why the fear... I do not understand this... Is it normal for a guy to be so scared of the thought of commitment? I know he'd rather stay sambo for practically forever. Why is even the thought of making the move to marriage in the far far future so scary? I do not understand Swedes! I do not understand David! I will have to ask Jonas. He knows lots about the weird ways of Swedish thinking.
I spoke to my mom today about how it would probably be hard for me to get a job in Sweden with my name not being Swedish. She asked me if Swedish has an equivilent of Sarah. I told her if I removed the h it'd be Swedish. Her advice was to just change my first name. She said that if I stay there I'd probably get married so I'd have a Swedish last name. I told her that Swedish women often don't change their last name. She thinks that strange. She says she was very happy to change her last name, she was tired of being a Bourke! She says it was such an honor that a guy would give her his last name. That he liked her enough to want to be associated with her! *laugh* My mom is weird sometimes, but I wonder how much of her thinking influenes me. Probably more than I know. I wonder how much I'll have to change my own thinking to fit in with Swedes. I wonder if I'll have to change who I am and what I am... I like who I am though...
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