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Never giving up


Viivi

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I'd like to share an incoherent thought or two on a subject that means a lot to me, as well as most of my fellow Finns. It's the concept called sisu. It means inner strength and perseverance. Please take a look at this Wikipedia article for more details:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisu

My life has never been easy but I'm still here, hanging on, sometimes sad and unhappy, but most of the time content and optimistic. "Against the wind", we say, when everything seems to fall apart around us. I'll never give up, and I hope you won't either.

On a remotely related theme, here's a painting called Lemminkäinen's mother. More on the painting from Wikipedia:

"Painting by Akseli Gallen-Kallela, depicting a scene from Kalevala, a Finnish epic poem. The warrior Lemminkainen had been killed, his body hacked to pieces and thrown into the dark river that flows through the underworld, Tuonela. His mother, having collected the parts from the river and sewing them back together, looks up to see a single bee bringing back honey from the halls of the god Ukko, a wondrous ointment that would bring her son to life."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmink%C3%A4inen

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Attention! There can be a minor spoiler here if you haven't seen the XF2 movie yet!

To anyone who might think that I posted the above entry in relation to The X-Files - I Want To Believe" and the themes it contains: I didn't. It was posted four days before I ever saw the movie, and I had managed to avoid spoilers, too.

Isn't that a nice little coincidence? :wink:

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I am not a Finn myself but i do believe in sisu. My sisu comes from my faith in GOD. I have also endured alot in my life. My inner strength gets me thew the hardest times in my life.

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