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My fruitful truth about eating fruits

apple, green and red grapes and a pear
Photo: Mia, 2012

My fruitful truth about eating fruit. I don’t remember when I last ate a fruit. It’s been a while because I don’t have money for it. When you don’t have enough money, you have to save it for more important things. Like paying bills and food. Buying fruit is the last thing you buy.

I like eating fruit, but it also depends on the conditions they are in. I’m especially picky about bananas. I don’t like them overripe, but they shouldn’t be too raw either. Something in between. If I see brown spots on the skin, I don’t buy them. When I buy bananas, I eat them as fast as possible.

I like almost all fruit I’ve tasted, but I don’t like kiwis. I don’t think I’m allergic to them, but when I eat them, the side of my tongue hurts. I’m not so crazy about oranges or grapefruit. I prefer clementines because they’re easier to peel and they can be sweet. I don’t like anything sour. Not even in candy.

My favorite fruits (like you see in the photo) are apples, pears, and grapes. Tomatoes are fruit, too, in case you didn’t know. I only eat raw tomatoes. Ketchup and tomato sauces are good. But I don’t like tomatoes in hamburgers, or if they are sliced on pizzas or pies, I say, no thank you.

If there is a fruit I haven’t eaten, I try it at least once. I buy fruit I can afford, so it usually ends up being the common ones. I mostly eat fresh fruit, but when it comes to pineapples, I prefer them canned. Except when pineapples are served in a buffet. Cutting a pineapple is not something I feel like doing.

Fruits that are easy to peel or don’t need peeling are my thing.

Success? What is that?

Made in Canva by me.

When someone says the word “success,” it reminds me that I have not had much of it. I don’t remember them. I don’t really know what that means.

I only remember negative things. I haven’t had success with friends, my career, or the things people usually do. But I don’t need to. I want to be different. For me, success is in small things. Such as.

I learned a lot, and I’ve experienced things that some people haven’t. And I mean good things. For example, I know how they make movies. I’ve studied screenplay writing, and we filmed a movie scene from the scripts we wrote. There was no time for mine, but it was fun to film.

I succeeded in not falling into bad habits like drinking alcohol, smoking, and doing drugs. I haven’t seen a point in it.

I succeeded in learning English. I know more English than I did when I first learned it. I was in 3rd or 4th grade. It was then that we began to learn English in Finland.

I succeeded in traveling with my parents. So far, I’ve been in at least 13 or 14 countries. All in Europe. Now that they have passed away, I go alone. But traveling is expensive, so I’ve only been on cruises to Stockholm. After my dad passed away two years ago, I went to Stockholm overnight. It was the first time I’d traveled abroad alone. The last time I went was on my birthday, June 2. Some people never go anywhere, like my next-door neighbors. Poor kids who never see the world. Not even the city they live in.

I succeeded in finding an occupation that I was looking for. It took years, and when I finally did, I didn’t get a job. No clients to start a business. And no money is coming in.

I succeeded in going to live concerts. When I was younger, I never went to concerts. I didn’t want to go into crowds. But then in 2017, I went to see Robbie Williams. And after that, I got the bug to go to concerts. My dream is to go abroad to see a concert, but I don’t have the money. Duran Duran is in Stockholm in the Autumn, but that will remain a dream.

Small successes like that. But success that other people might think is. A good job, a family, or fame and fortune. If you have no respect for others, including those who are different. Think you’re above others because you have it better than they do; success doesn’t matter.

Even if you don’t have big successes, small ones should be enough.

Calm down, it’s my birthday

birthday cake
My birthday cake I made myself in 2018.

Today it’s my birthday 🥳 49 of them.

Next year it’s going to be 50. Yikes. So from now on, I’m 38 years old until I die, OK?

It’s not that I’m afraid that I’m getting older. It’s what others see when you’re 50. You’re too old for a lot of things. Some see you as a failure because you don’t have a life they have. You know a job, a family, and those things.

But I don’t care. I just dodged a bullet. Not everyone wants a life like everyone else. You don’t need to ask anyone for permission, and you save money, too.

Birthdays haven’t been important for years, and they get less important. I have no one to celebrate it with, either. I never liked parties anyway. And I hate alcohol and people who drink too much. I don’t care about presents either. I have too much stuff anyway.

I already got a present.

So calm down, it’s my birthday. It’s just one step closer to death, as I put it.