'If I keep myself busy with what fools think, I won't have time for what intelligent people think about.' (Oscar and the Lady in Pink' by E.E. Schmitt). What is most important in your life?
Agnieszka Serafin - 11.10.2018 @ 16:06
Hier ist eine Übersetzung von meinem Artikel zu diesem Thema.
What is a Paradise, really?
by Tova Korner, VKS Växjö/Sweden
To me, a Paradise is the combination of freedom and security. A Paradise is where you can walk through nature without fear. Where you can come home, and be met by warmth and love. A Paradise to me, is having a home. A home where I can feel safe. My Paradise is having a loving family, a family who will love and support me. A Paradise is a place, where you feel fully comfortable, where you feel calm. Where you feel no fear. When you have a home, you have security. You might even dare to step out into the world to explore, to experience new things. Feeling safe is the key that will allow you to use and profit from the freedom you already have.
Nature is a paradise in itself. I always feel calm when walk through the woods. Just the simple pleasure of breathing fresh air, is in fact a Paradise too. Tall trees, green grass, a blue sky and clear water. All the colors making up the Paradise. Animals are also a part of the Paradise, an important one we cannot forget. The miracle of hearing birds chirping early in the morning, and the gift of receiving love from a pet. All of it is incredible. All of nature, with its plants and animals, is a paradise indeed.
A Paradise is also a peaceful land, where everyone live together in harmony. A land offering security to all of its people. I believe that the more people living alongside each other in the Paradise, the happier they will become. Happiness is to be shared, because that alone - shared happiness - is a Paradise too.
A Paradise can appear differently to each and every one of us. There are no rights or wrongs. Only different perspectives.
Photos Tova Korner
Translated by Hanna Thunander, November 15, 2018
Tova Korner - 16.11.2018 @ 10:43
Hello Tova, I read your text and i really enjoyed doing so. It was very inspiring and it made me feel good and made me want to take a long walk through the forest. I very much agree with you view of "paradise", it's very similar to my idea of paradise too. I also think that paradise is filled with animals, and that everyone feels safe and happy, a place where you don't have to be afraid of going out. A place where everyone minds their own buissness. I also think that paradise has equal rights for everyone for example everyone can go to school.
Beata Ernstig - 29.11.2018 @ 11:39
Hi Tova! Your text was very well written and I enjoyed reading it. The text made me feel happy and it made me want to go out into the nature, your take on paradise was wonderfull.
You wrote about a paradise being a combination of both freedom and security and I totally agree with you. You also wrote a lot about nature being your paradise and I think that if everyone had the oppurtunity to be close to nature and have time to go into nature they would feel the same. Because the fresh air and the landscape makes you calm and I think that evryone need that in there life to appreciate the good and the bad, to know that there is a place for you to be yourself to feel "freedom and security".
Vera Petersson - 29.11.2018 @ 11:39
Hello Tova! I loved your article and the way you described paradise as a place where you are surrounded by loving people and yet get to make your own decisions.
I also think that paradise is a place where you don't get judged for your gender, ethnicity or sexualtity, a place where you can be yourself without the constant fear of becoming an outsider. When speaking of paradise, we think about an imaginay world most of the time, but like you said, nature is your personal paradise. In my opinion, we can find our own paradise on earth. Sometimes we have to work hard to create it. And sometimes, we just have to open our eyes.
Anja Leitner - 09.12.2018 @ 15:56
Hello Tova,
I really enjoyed reading your article. You described your kind of paradise in a beautiful way. I really liked, that you also mentioned, that paradise is different for everyone, because each person has a unique thought of it.
The paradise, which you described seemed to be a really calm place with peace and freedom. I totally agree with you in that point. Nature really is a paradise, which shouldn't get destroyed by humans. Actually I think that paradise could be everywhere, when we make the best out of every situation and have people around us, who help and support us, like family or friends.
Johanna Holaubek - 06.01.2019 @ 14:38
Hi Tova,
I really like the way you described your paradise and can totally agree with your opinion.
I think all humans want ot live in freedom and each of us wants to be loved. In developing countries a paradise maybe is similiar to our lifestyle. They dream of things which are common for us.
Maybe we could make our world to a little paradise, if we would respect other people and treat them like we also want to get treated. Even if countries and people are very different, the imagination of a paradies is always similiar.
Annalena Sieberer - 03.02.2019 @ 11:43
Hi Tova,
while reading your article I could imagine the nature so clearly in my head. Tall green trees, their branches trembling under a light breeze. Soft green grass with a blue sky above it and of course clear and fresh water and pure air. That's a real paradise to me. I live near a big wood so everytime I need to calm down I take a walk and just listen to the birds chirping and the soft wind.
Like you mentioned, paradise is different for everyone. Your paradise is safety and freedom and a family who loves you. For other people it's nature or just the people they love.
I agree with you there is no right or wrong. Everyone should have his or her own paradise.
Leonie Reiter - 05.02.2019 @ 22:16
Hello Tova and all the others who have commented already,
so many things have been said and I absolutely agree with you, but all the time I read that nature is kind of a paradise, I can't help thinking that we humans are about to destroy this paradise. It makes me feel sad, because also in my opinion there could never be something more relaxing than a day in our beautiful nature with my loving ones, while I totally feel safe. It maybe sounds a little bit radical, but I want that my children and grandchildren also have the opportunity to enjoy our nature, our paradise. And if we don't change something, this paradise will get smaller and smaller. In times in which money rules the world I want to appeal to listen our heart and to stand up for our paradise!
Victoria Zawadil - 07.02.2019 @ 19:45
There are so many different perspectives of paradise. It can be something natural, something that has to do with family etc.
I think that people haven't only one paradise, because it also can be something paradisiac if you (like almost said) walk through the woods or play with your pets or spend time with your family.
But like some people said in the comments before, if we set nature as paradise, we have to do something to keep it alive. Humans do many things to destroy the nature so we have to stop it!
Rebecca Fasching - 08.02.2019 @ 14:39
Hello!
You wrote a beautiful article, I enjoyed reading it.
Paradise is something different in everyones mind, as you said before. So maybe we can se similarities in some definitions of paradise, as for example the terms Freedom, Equality, Love,.. which have a big importance for many people on earth. But paradise means your pleasures in life combined and that is not really possible on this earth because everyone wants and needs something different for their perfection. But there are those moments, when it almost feels like paradise.
And if we see nature as a part or as an individual paradise, we have to hold it alive and fight against our own destructive behaviour.
Yara Krismer - 25.02.2019 @ 22:43