Have you ever been so curious and blinded by a thing’s beauty and just wanted to see what’s hidden at the end of the rainbow? Ever wondering what there is way out in the blue sky so far that you can’t see? Ever thinking of all the unexplored things that are screaming to be explored?

BANG! Did you feel the nice explosion? Something big happened here. Did it also occur to you? Don’t know what it is, but it develops very fast and it grows like wild flowers. What do you think I should do? Should I try to tame it or let it continue growing wild and crazy? That is what happens to me when I fall in love, not necessarily in a person, it could be anything. I once went alone on hiking for a nearly 15-20 km hike in Tasiilaq area, where I was born. That hike in 2004 did something to me and it’s like a kick when I go on hiking alone in the nature in Greenland. Another time I got that feeling was after spending a whole day in a painting and when I finished in the middle of the night, hungry, exhausted and tired I got that BANG feeling. Wow! It’s when I reach my goal for things I create whether it’s a finished thing or just a feeling. The important thing is that the feeling is so much yours and almost like a pride, to accept yourself as your own hero.

One wintertime I also went on a snowmobile ride together with a friend,  we drove from Tasiilaq to a small settlement named Tiniteqilaaq. We drove together with some others, me sitting in the back of my friends snowmobile. We crossed a big frozen lake, think we came up to 100 km/h in speed, then we took all the way up to a top of a glacier where you had the greatest view, Tasiilaq on the left side, Tiniteqilaaq on the right, behind you the inland ice and on the other side the sea. In Tasiilaq area the mountains are so particular so you could easily recognize every mountain top. But being there with the greatest view ever was so spectacular that the only thing my friend could say was: “All what I see is mine” I knew exactly what she meant as I had the same feeling.

There is a quote I like very much about my own exploring the world and life “Great are the things we see, more great are the things we understand, but far the greatest are the things we don’t understand…” it was said/written by a Danish Nature Scientist named Niels Steensen. Another one I like very much says: “To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour” These words belongs to William Blake, I read it in one of my favorite books by Richard Dawkins “Unweaving the rainbow” – it could perhaps for a poet sounds like “killing the rainbow” when scientist are trying to explain the wonders in nature and life around us, but RD has a splendid way of explaining how fantastic science can be and how poetic also it is to explain the unique world around us. But words are words, can have different meanings depending on what your purpose is.

For me, I could be a dreamer, I try to understand everything, and so I buy and read a lot of English books that are not available in Danish language. I like metaphors; I like science and want to understand how our world really is. I also experienced that my English has improved so much so I can start writing in English and get a specific meaning out of it without being too misunderstood.

It is a matter of telling the right story, whether you write something, paint, sing, play or just anything as long as you perform anything. We all have a story to tell. We’re all storytellers in our own life and each and everyone’s life is so unique.