"A Poignant Exploration of Aging, Self-Acceptance, and the Mysteries of the Mind"
In this profoundly introspective installment of "Fall Asleep with Henrik," the host Henrik StÄhl embarks on a deeply personal journey, grappling with the challenges and complexities of growing older.
Rather than shying away from the emotional realities of his own aging, Henrik opens up with raw vulnerability, sharing his struggles to reconcile his youthful spirit with the physical and mental changes of middle age.
Throughout the episode, Henrik reflects on the years he spent trying to conform to societal expectations of success and masculinity, acknowledging the regret and shame he feels over his past struggles with alcohol abuse.
However, he also celebrates the newfound self-acceptance and creative freedom he has discovered in more recent years, as he has built a life and career centered around his authentic passions.
Interwoven with these reflections are Henrik's profound musings on the nature of consciousness, individuality, and the elusive concept of "the self." Drawing connections between the microscopic workings of the human body and the vastness of the universe, he ponders the paradox of being a unique, irreplaceable entity within the broader tapestry of existence.
Despite the occasionally melancholic tone, Henrik's delivery remains gentle and thoughtful, creating a relaxing, almost meditative atmosphere.
Listeners are encouraged to let his words wash over them, using his stream-of-consciousness as a catalyst for their own introspective journeys.
If you're seeking a sleep aid that eschews generic relaxation techniques in favor of a deeply personal, philosophical exploration, press play on this episode of "Fall Asleep with Henrik" and allow this charming Swede to guide you on an odyssey through the complexities of the human experience.
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[00:00:00] Hi and welcome to Fall Asleep with Henrik. I am Henrik and you are sleepy. And it is what it is. What happens, happens. And right now there is nothing we can do about it. Let's go. Hi there, sleepy. I have received mixed reactions to me calling you sleepy.
[00:00:37] Some of you don't like it, some of you like it. But since we're still in the early phase of this podcast's presumed very long journey, I'm not going to do anything about it right now.
[00:00:51] I'm going to keep calling you sleepy until I get this overwhelmingly clear feeling in which direction I should take this. So if you're new here, my name is Henrik StÄl and I am a boy.
[00:01:13] Some people say that I'm too old to refer to myself as a boy. This is something I have an issue with, my own aging. I am tearing up as we speak. This started out very, very weird. So now I'm crying.
[00:01:53] We haven't been at this for even one minute. Sorry, sorry everyone. Sorry sleepy. Okay, so maybe I should... Okay, so first of all, if this is the first time you're listening to Fall asleep with Henrik, this is normal. Stuff will happen here. People just talk.
[00:02:21] The issue of the hour is that you're going to fall asleep or at least you don't have to listen. You can do whatever you want, you can listen if you want, but it's not necessarily something that you need to take action on.
[00:02:40] Have an opinion on, just let me do the talking and you can just drift away. So now I'm going to explain why I'm starting this episode with weeping. I'm okay really.
[00:02:58] So first of all, before you rush to any conclusions about my mental well-being, I will beat you to it and say that I'm fine. It's okay.
[00:03:09] It's just sometimes it's hard to accept that the time you have is at least as far as I know, a limited time and I have so much I want to do. And inside I am a boy. I truly am a boy.
[00:03:39] I'm not, well of course I know I am a man. I have a family. I have a daughter. I have a career. I have my own business. Of course I know that I'm a man, that I'm a grown up.
[00:04:05] It's not that I believe in a sense that I'm actually a child or something like that. I'm not an idiot. But when I look at myself, I can't look at myself from any other point of view than from that of the boy. I'm a boy.
[00:04:34] I like to refer to myself as one. Although I know that I am not. That I left my boyhood far, far behind somewhere. This hasn't always been the case. I've spent many years trying to be the man.
[00:04:59] Trying to be, well maybe when I was a teenager I looked at grown ups and I thought to myself that this is how it's supposed to be. You're supposed to be this whirlwind of success. And not thinking too much.
[00:05:27] Just knowing everything being in total control and having this huge following of people worshipping your every move. Maybe that's how I viewed it in the past. And that's of course me being bullied in middle school, high school. It was some sort of a payback thing I think.
[00:06:03] But it never meant, it never made me happy. I wasn't very happy back then. If I had asked myself then this question, are you happy? Maybe I would have said like yeah I'm extremely happy. Because things went well for that boy, that man.
[00:06:33] But he didn't want to stop. He just ran. And while running I think looking back I believe I missed so much of what makes life. Worthwhile. I had a problematic relationship with alcohol. I drank too much.
[00:07:00] And while drunk I was, well I wasn't very true to myself I think. Every time I think back on my endeavors as a drunk. I get this overwhelmingly strong feeling of shame. But if I'm going to look at it like from the outside.
[00:07:34] I was a very typical young man I think. I have never been in a situation where I did anything criminal or anything that really would raise eyebrows. When I mention my years of abuse to friends who knew me at the time.
[00:07:57] They just say what do you mean abuse? You were happy drunk. We all were like that. But for me this was like this bottomless pit of trying to search for love where no love was given. I tried to be someone I'm not.
[00:08:18] And I tried to be, well I guess I tried to be like everyone else. Like I thought everyone else were like. And of course that's an impossible endeavor. You can't do that. It's impossible. So it's with sadness I look back.
[00:08:47] And of course gratitude that I turn that around. I don't use alcohol anymore. Not because I think that I really had a chemical need for it as a substance. But I don't think I am the type of person who should use heavier drugs like that.
[00:09:13] Because there's something bottomless in me that needs to be forever maintained if started. There's a meme circulating around the intranets with Gandalf saying that once this is started there is no turning back or something like that. And there's this meme after I took the first beer.
[00:09:45] It's a laughing thing but for me that was real. When I had that beer there was this world opening up to me. A world where I was a successful actor and a person worthy of love and admiration.
[00:10:07] And that was of course true even without alcohol but I couldn't enjoy it at all. I can't really enjoy success. That's not in my nature. I mean I can for like a minute, an hour maybe. I can enjoy something positive happening to me.
[00:10:38] That fleeing thing that you call success. But I can't for a long time. I can't prolong the feeling of being a success. But when drunk I could. So alcohol became important to me in that way. Okay so I've spent a lot of years wasting my time.
[00:11:08] That's my overall feeling. And that's I guess why I was sobbing in the beginning here. Because I turn 49 in a month. And some part of me thinks that it's too late for me to do what I've been wanting to all these years.
[00:11:37] Except I was just lost you know. So I have this feeling that I'm too late. I mean I'm on the right track now but I'm almost 50. And life is not that long you know.
[00:11:57] And I think back at all the years I spent trying to be someone I'm not. To be concrete I tried to be a successful Swedish actor in all sense of the word. I tried to be someone who landed film roles like regularly.
[00:12:18] Someone who got invited to the right parties. Someone who was written about in gossip magazines and stuff. And I never went that way. I went into Swedish children television and there's not much written about those actors. And I enjoyed that very much.
[00:12:41] And that was of course a very untrendy part of me. So it was a double period. I punished myself for not being a quote unquote real actor. But at the same time I had this great time and spent all my money on taxi and alcohol and dry cleaning.
[00:13:06] And this is such a waste of my time. If I just came up with those ideas that I have now. Like building my own universe. Really like building a nice, soft, comfortable and safe nest for yourself from within you can grow. Do your own thing.
[00:13:41] If I had only done that like 20 years ago. Then maybe today I could have room to fly. Because right now I feel that I'm sort of stuck in fighting to reach my goal. And there's a lot of work involved. Like day to day grinding thing.
[00:14:13] And that's of course something that prevents you from soaring. I would like to have been able to stand on a mountain top by now. Looking out over a landscape and just deciding where to fly next.
[00:14:35] Maybe go down for a while into the valleys below and just dwell there for a while. Or maybe go to another mountain or something. But right now I feel like I am at the mountain side. And that the sun is setting and I need to...
[00:15:03] Yeah. So, okay sorry. But this is the deal with fall asleep with Henrik. You get what you get. I don't... Okay. Yeah well maybe this is good. I don't know. Maybe this is good content. I don't know. Of course I did stuff as a young man.
[00:15:36] That was my own. That was part of building my own universe. I did stuff back then as well. But then it was more like accidents. Freak accidents. Like oops I just created this thing okay. Maybe this is good.
[00:15:54] But please call me up and let me play a cop in this shitty movie. You know? It's like the recent years like this past seven years maybe. Maybe fewer. Five years. These are the years that I've been really betting on myself.
[00:16:27] By creating this universe around me that I could reach out into the void from. And I think everyone needs this. Not just people working with content. That awful word content. Everything is content you know. I mean I'm not just people working in media or entertainment or whatever.
[00:16:59] I think everyone needs... It's essential to have a universe built around you that is yours. You can put anyone or anything in there. But it's your universe. We are the only ones who have the key to our own universe. I think about this a lot.
[00:17:26] I mean there is nothing really that makes me or you Sleepy unique. We're not unique we're people you know. If you're trying to... Now if you're by hearing this you're rushing out like of course I'm unique.
[00:17:43] Listen to what this idiot podcaster is saying in his little container in Sweden. Of course I am unique. So listen I'm going to come to a conclusion eventually. So bear with me. Okay so you are not unique. There's nothing unique about you in any common sense.
[00:18:09] Like the cells that divide in your body do the same thing that any other body, that any other cell, that any other biological process are doing. You are a homo sapiens as I am.
[00:18:32] And you have fears and lust and anger and love and hope and well everything that I have. Of course my hope looks different from your hope and that other one that hopes in a certain way. But it's still hope.
[00:18:54] So this is in a way a beautiful thing because there's so little really that makes us different from each other.
[00:19:05] Even though we look different our genomes are like almost identical to each other and this is why people are so susceptible, humans are so susceptible to diseases for instance because we are very alike genetically.
[00:19:23] If we were more different from each other maybe some of us would be like we wouldn't be able to just take so much damage from for instance a worldwide pandemic. So we are alike on a genetic level. Very very much alike.
[00:19:47] But then again this could be said about anything worldwide that have that in common that we are alive. There's very little that makes all living things differ from each other. So I have like a whole lot of my genome.
[00:20:09] A whole lot of my genome is the same as that in a banana for instance. So okay so we're not unique. From an outside perspective we're like totally the same.
[00:20:23] Look at a bunch of bacteria in a microscope and you don't think of them as individuals if you're not aiming to do just that. You think about them as a bunch of bacteria. So that's us, that's every living thing because from the outside we're just dots you know.
[00:20:49] But there's one thing that makes you truly unique and that is all in all the only thing worth mentioning when talking about uniqueness. And that's your universe. You are the only one who truly knows what it's like to be you. I mean and that's so beautiful isn't it?
[00:21:17] It's like I mean what a privilege. And for me to even get a little glimpse of what that's like. You can live like the most ordinary life.
[00:21:37] But receiving like this little glimpse of what it's like to truly be you is a gift that could be like should be treasured forever. And you have the key to all of it. And I had the key to my universe.
[00:22:02] And maybe that's why I feel sad sometimes because I feel that I've been sort of pissing on my own universe in a way. Sorry for being vulgar. I've been treating it like it was any other universe but it's not. It's like my most sacred place.
[00:22:24] And then again I haven't been this absurdly wild person. So I haven't been like with a syringe in my arm on a bench somewhere. I haven't been there you know. I haven't been in a fight. I haven't like been this. I wanted to be though.
[00:22:47] We have a lot of bad boys in Swedish theater and I tried to be one. I just don't have it in me. I just don't have it in me to be this asshole. The most popular of us for many years.
[00:23:10] Me too changed a lot of that and that was a great thing. I believe it's of course there was this big turbulent time in Swedish theater. I mean all over the world I guess. Because we had this ruling class of guys.
[00:23:28] They all had like severe issues with alcohol and anger. And they were the top kings, the top dogs and a lot of them got pinned down. And a lot of them didn't you know. They just slipped away in the shadows and they're still there you know.
[00:23:47] And of course they have all right in the world to be. And exist and learn and grow and whatever. But their power sort of got diminished and I think that's a good thing. And I'm glad today that I never got let into that club.
[00:24:07] But I actually had friends that told me that you need to have like this scandal on your repertoire. Because everyone who's anything in this business, acting business, is not going to be able to do it.
[00:24:21] Acting business has a man that is any man that's anything in this business has like a scandal. Like being too drunk and ending up in a fight or crashing with your car or driving under the influence.
[00:24:36] Or like having this very famous relationship and then being unfaithful with another famous person. Something like that. Or being arrested for drug possession. An illegal drug or something. But I never made it. I never made that. Instead I became this sad little boy.
[00:25:06] Too drunk in a corner of a club you know. And that was not what I saw myself as a kid. And that was a few years you know. So sometimes I saw myself in a video the other day. A recent video. And I love myself.
[00:25:38] I do. I do. I love the vehicle that is me. That's driving me around in the world. But I don't like that. Okay this is going to sound vain. But it's I feel too old. It's over. That's what I feel like. I'm over.
[00:26:10] And I know this is wrong. I know. I know that there is no such thing as a date when you should just stop certain things. So this is a limitation in my own mind. I know that. But it's still there.
[00:26:28] And I can only do so much with it. And I saw my ears. And there's this thin layer of wrinkles around my ears that I haven't seen before.
[00:26:44] And they are telling me that Henrik you should really just be focusing on learning how to sit still and remember stuff. And waiting for Harriet your daughter to have kids of her own so that you can be a granddad and just be there with them you know.
[00:27:05] And you can just read and take long walks and just be happy with what you've accomplished you know. And stop trying to stop this stupid experiment of reaching out into the world with a podcast. I mean there's so many Swedish media guys that have tried this before.
[00:27:36] Guys who have been reaching out to the English speaking world with their podcast or YouTube show or whatever. And there's so many of them that just fluffed because we don't. It's just two different worlds you know. So why don't you just say to yourself that enough is enough.
[00:28:08] I remember like 10 years ago when my daughter was a baby we were at this place in Vardabri which is a town close to Gothenburg on the west coast in Sweden. And we go there every summer because Nina's parents live there.
[00:28:25] And there was this neighbor by the cabin that we rented that was turning 50. And this was 10 years ago. May I remind you? 10 years ago and that's not so many years. I was 39. And I was by then I guess I was sort of desperate for roles, acting roles.
[00:29:01] I had this huge dip in my stream of roles that I landed and that made me feel like a failure. You see my life when you listen to it right now it feels like this long line of misery.
[00:29:18] But it's not. I'm sorry if I give you that impression. Anyway the thing I was going to tell you about was that this guy turning 50 he had these long line of old persons at a party at his place.
[00:29:35] And there was a really big party and everyone was really drunk. And we weren't there but we sat at our cabin having like evening tea listening to that party. And the overall feeling was that listen to these old guys partying like it's their youth.
[00:29:57] It was like a tragic thing. Like I thought of it as like really old people celebrating. And now it's my turn and I don't feel any different inside. Except maybe for the happiness part because I'm happy now. And that's very weird.
[00:30:22] That's so weird to be the same age as that old guy 10 years ago. Now I am this. Okay so I'm not going to dig deeper into this because I think that maybe it gives you the feeling that I need help in some way.
[00:30:48] Or that I am depressed or something like that. I'm sorry if I'm giving you that impression. Actually this is still like the highlight of my life. I mean talking to you doing this is so exciting.
[00:31:06] And doing the Swedish equivalent of this podcast is also still like the center of my life and I love it. I love my new endeavors. I love my new mediums. I love this new life that I've created for myself.
[00:31:25] I love being the father of a soon to be teenager. I love to be like Nina's now stable man in a way. Boy. It feels very weird to say that I'm Nina's boy because I'm not in that sense. We aren't married so I can't say wife.
[00:31:49] I can say girlfriend but that sounds almost so infantile. But I can't say that she's my woman either because that sounds like I mean some sort of a different time period. Okay so Nina. My partner. That's a boring word as well.
[00:32:19] Okay the woman I love and the mother of my child. So it's I am really in a good place. It's just that sometimes this feeling is it just attacks you know from the shadows. Or maybe not the shadows but from deep within.
[00:32:54] I hang out more and more with people younger than me. I think it's a defense mechanism really. I almost never meet people my own age or older anymore. I used to do that a lot more when I was younger.
[00:33:14] When I was way younger I used to have a lot of friends like in their 70s and 80s. We had like this actor community which there was a lot of senior people in it. But well they are of course dead or very very old today.
[00:33:33] And we don't since I don't act so much anymore I don't have any connection really with them anymore. My connections nowadays are mainly with like my oldest friends which of course are in my own age.
[00:33:51] And new friends that I've reached out to and connected with over social media. And they are content creators tend to be content creators like me. And they're all younger than me like between 10 and 20 years younger than me.
[00:34:10] And I feel more like them then I feel like my own age. And in my bad moments I think of this as some sort of a midlife crisis thing. But then I think okay but so what? I mean what does it matter?
[00:34:36] I mean it would be one thing if I were just running around buying boats and cars and you know. Desperately trying to if I went out in bars and desperately tried to impress younger women or something. But I don't I just hang out a lot with younger people.
[00:35:03] Because sometimes I think their lives are more in line with how I see my life. And somehow I feel that I get more out of life discussing stuff with someone who is 39 than someone who is 69. I don't know. Don't take offense if you're an older sleepy now.
[00:35:38] I don't mean anything like this is not ageism or maybe it is. I don't know. I don't know anything. I believe that being young is sort of a mindset. Of course it of course it is. And now I don't know what I'm talking about.
[00:36:02] And I'm the censorship comes rushing into my brain telling me to stop. I have like two or three censorship people in my head. And they are working their butts off right now trying to do damage control.
[00:36:20] They're telling me that a few of you who are sleepies are actually older than me and you shouldn't alienate yourself from them they say.
[00:36:32] And now they tell me to say that you need to they are telling me to smoothen this smooth out so that it doesn't get offensive. So shut up critics censorship guys in my mind. Let me speak from the heart. This is what I do in this podcast.
[00:36:58] I just say stuff you know. I think the main issue I have with getting older myself is that I know that in time my cognitive and physical abilities will decline.
[00:37:16] And that is the thing that gives me the feeling of that I only have a limited set of hours before it's too late in a way.
[00:37:26] So it's the cognitive and physical decline that scares me not wrinkles or white hair or wisdom or well maybe like stagnated views and a bitterness about society. That's something that I see in my own parents.
[00:37:46] I think it scares me a lot because I don't want to be bitter.
[00:37:51] I don't want to be locked to an idea and then spend the rest of my life just telling everybody that wants to listen how wrong the world is compared to when I was a kid or something. I don't want to be that person. OK so that's one thing.
[00:38:13] So I love old people. I love talking to old people. I don't have many of them in my life right now. That doesn't mean that I don't want to.
[00:38:31] Right now I tend to talk to younger people because they enable me to I guess feel younger than I am. I don't know. I don't know. But it scares me that I'm going to be weak. I mean that's what happens.
[00:39:00] Your muscles and your senses and I mean you could be lucky and you can have this way healthier old age than for instance my parents have. But sooner or later this will hit. Sorry I'm not. I'm not doing a very good job in inducing calmness and.
[00:39:36] Sorry I'm sorry. Well if I'm lucky you're asleep right now anyway so you don't ever hear this and it's that's good. That's fine. I'm. I'm just a boy. OK maybe this was my worst episode ever. I started out by crying over my own age.
[00:40:04] No I don't mean that I'm crying of my age. It's not the age it's the last opportunities that time provided me with back then. Everything is more concentrated now.
[00:40:22] If life is a disease I am now mid or even past mid disease and the disease is just you know you can live with it. I mean what other choice do you have but it's and I mean that the disease itself is an ever giving one.
[00:40:44] So maybe it's not a disease maybe it's a gift I don't know. So no I don't know what I'm talking about. I don't I am very fluffy in my head right now.
[00:40:58] The words are just running around nobody wants to take responsibility for what's been said at the moment. The censorship guys are just you know standing with their arms crossed shaking their heads at me and I'm I feel like I'm alone now.
[00:41:18] Nobody no force or ideology or dogma in my mind will take responsibility for what I'm saying. And there's no clear plan no clear path of where I'm going with anything really. But then again this is good because you are not meant to actively do something with my voice.
[00:41:51] You can just fade away and listen to me or not listen to me or listen for a while and then fade away again and thinking about your own stuff you know. God you have a lot of stuff in your universe sleepy.
[00:42:10] Your universe is like that's why I believe that what we do here is somewhat meaningful. Because I give you parts of my universe and it's unfiltered and it's not thought through and I even if I want to sometimes I don't ever plan.
[00:42:32] I don't even I don't ever edit or well as you can hear censor anything really that I say. And this is like what I was talking about before that you know even the smallest slice of someone's genuine universe is worth more than any money.
[00:42:59] You know so if you like you can write to me. You can DM me on social media or you can write you can email me if you can find my all contacts and stuff on my web page. Kirin IA dot com Kiri Naya Kiri Naja dot com.
[00:43:22] There you can reach out or you can DM me and any social media and just give me a slice of your universe. I would be really thrilled to get to know you a little bit. You are still a very small group of people.
[00:43:44] Every day I get like 200 people listening and the past month I have received 14,000 listens. This is way more than I expected in the beginning but this is just because I got very wonderfully promoted by Jonna Jinton.
[00:44:11] So thank you Jonna if you're listening and it was that's why I got this 14,000 listens. But if I'm going to be realistic this is maybe you are about around. One thousand people or something that's listening on a regular basis right now.
[00:44:40] But I still don't know because it's so new everything everything is so new. But it's one thousand persons humans. So there's still time for me to get to know you like really see because one problem I have with my Swedish podcast.
[00:45:10] Which has like two hundred thousand individuals listening every day. No no two hundred thousand individuals per month that is like five hundred thousand listens each month. So that's a lot and I don't. Well some of them that was early that was with me from an early stage.
[00:45:42] I feel I know them but it's hard for me to individually read and take in everything I try. But it's harder. So in English since we're so few there is still a great opportunity for me to get to know you.
[00:46:07] So if you want write me and tell me a bit about yourself tell me about your life. Tell me about how you use the podcast. Tell me about what you like or what you don't like with it.
[00:46:23] But most of all I'm interested in getting to know you like who you are where you live what you do how you go through life. I am looking for this ever so small slice of your own universe.
[00:46:43] That is the only thing that makes you truly unique in our huge vastly expanding common space which is what we call the universe. But it's a bit unfair to call our common space universe because it's a philosophical impossibility to talk about this a lot in my Swedish podcast.
[00:47:15] It's philosophically impossible to talk about our common space as the universe because the universe has like as soon as you mention it in terms of this is the universe.
[00:47:37] And if by the universe you mean something that contains everything there is then the whole concept gets turned inside out because it's impossible to watch something from the outside which contains everything. You know but it gets easier if you say that this universe contains me.
[00:48:04] This is my universe. Then the universe becomes something that you can work with in terms of like using it as an image or as a concept. In my universe these rules apply.
[00:48:20] But if we talk about our common space and by common space I mean like what we truly call the universe. Space around us. The ever expanding space. Our solar system. Interstellar space. Galaxies. That is something completely different because as soon as you call it.
[00:48:46] As soon as you give it a name. You lock it into existence and as soon as the name claims to be a name of a container that contains everything there is.
[00:49:04] It becomes unable to talk about because how can you watch describe discuss something that contains everything without looking at it from the outside. You can't. So then the only conclusion that you have to make that then is that the universe doesn't exist at least in that sense.
[00:49:30] So the universe is a very limited word. You should really just use it about containers that you can fit in your mind. Because the universe then if we're talking about the ever expanding vastly ever grow in all containing universe.
[00:49:54] Then the universe the universe contains like everything that doesn't exist as well. Because as soon as you mention it or think it or someone else mentions it or think it or somewhere some other place in this container we call the universe.
[00:50:18] Something starts to exist it exists you know so who's to say what's existent and what's not. Okay so this was really. Messy wasn't it. As I've been speaking I have like crunched my knuckles.
[00:50:48] You haven't heard it because there's no noise I have a noise protected I have sound isolated knuckles. I guess I became nervous when I started to potentially alienate myself from older listeners that was not. I repeat that was not my.
[00:51:11] Intention but I truly feel that the mind of some of the younger people I meet are. So inspiring and truly educating for me. That's something I can stand behind at least but I'm sad because my parents are well it's some times like they belong to a different. World.
[00:51:52] And I miss them in my world. It's hard for me to change world every time I go and visit them. It's hard for me to. It's some time it's some time feel like I have to. Go into this little playhouse you know when I want a playground somewhere.
[00:52:14] I have to not not indicating that my parents lives are like play lives or anything it's just an image like I go to a playground and I go. Into this one of these little play houses maybe with the.
[00:52:32] With slide on top of it or something and in there in the dark is my parents and they are like. They don't want to really be there it's just they don't know how to get out of the little house. So they're just in there and they feel.
[00:52:51] Left out they feel that like society has out run them abandoned them in a way and in so many ways it has. Especially digitally I don't know about other countries but in Sweden I feel like. The digital transformation in society has.
[00:53:15] To a very big degree left elder people out and the. The projects that aims to educate older people in how to interact digitally has been. Well it's been done by. Private operators and private.
[00:53:49] Private citizens you know it's very so we have like a few small projects from the government that aim to get everyone on the train but it's not it doesn't suffice. It's not enough and that's partly the reason why my parents are feeling left out but also.
[00:54:13] It's a mindset thing. I don't know if I could ever live in the world if I didn't get to be a part of it.
[00:54:23] If I didn't feel that I at least was a bit curious about what's going on but I see this in my own age group as well I see that this lack of curiosity is like slowly killing people. It's a very. Sad thing to see that people in.
[00:54:47] Even in my age or maybe younger are. Like sitting in a bar talking about. The stupid kids with their tick tock you know like that was that that should that. That mindset doesn't change anything or.
[00:55:09] Doesn't make anything better not for the kids with their tick tock and not for you especially not for you. With your soggy old beer in your soggy old bar talking about the past I love tick tock I hate tick tock.
[00:55:30] I love the world I hate the world it's complex you know. And but then again the only thing that you truly have responsibility over is your own universe.
[00:55:47] That's the only thing that you can really truly change or adapt within so you need to love that I need to love that. No matter my age so now I regret this whole episode I regret me whining about my old. My age.
[00:56:16] I regret me whining about how I lost so many years so what I'm still here there are people my age that still hasn't landed you know. Maybe when I'm 60 I will think what was I doing when I was 50 why couldn't I have just. Settled down and.
[00:56:42] Trying to be a granddad eventually and. I don't know. We never know anything really. Everything changes. It happens in an instant. You're almost never prepared. And it is what it is what happens happens and right now there is nothing we can do about it good night sleepy.

