I came from America through Belgium, Germany, Denmark and Sweden to my homeland exactly 15 years ago. I have just become 15 years older, some people have died, some live such as my father and the life goes on, when I think back I wonder why did I ever go to the USA, well I was young at 21 and I suppose I seeked some adventure, would I do it now, no way.
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Was there anything positive that came out of your time here?
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Happy Birthday, @mjseu
Are you 50 years old today?
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I’ll be 50 in September.
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i do not know, I traveled a lot when I was there, Mexico, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Bahamas, Grand Cayman and elsewhere, I started hearing voices in Atlanta, lived in my auto over two years in many places in America ( wrote messages on the Internet at the library of Beverly Hills,CA), it was just my life, learned about the divorce in America, still have not got any divorce papers, it was just one life, my life, it was an adventure … what else I do not know.
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So you were born in Finland, went to the USA at age 21, and returned to Finland at age 34. True?
I’m 53, and when I turned 50 it was a time to reflect on my life. Some of my friends have died, and I realized that most of my life was behind me.
But you go on. It’s the only way.
Recently at the psych meeting I discussed if I had achieved anything in my life, I mentioned I had been in America, what are the real chances that a young man from eastern Finland smoked a cigar with George Washington in Wall Street in NYC, I did it just 11 months before 9-11, I do not know if that is an achievement.
I would say that it is an achievement. You persevered.
Yesterday I watched a movie of Enron Scandal … a real financial collapse, it happened in 2001 and then 9-11 happened … I was under one bridge in Miami, when I heard this … I have detailed notes of the 9-11 event, then the CIA told that Osama was dead, which made me to email to numerous US senators that Osama was alive, I was right, the CIA lied as they always do, they got Osama in 2011 … 10 years after, do not believe what the CIA communicates in public …
Under one bridge in Miami before the US attack in Afghanistan I analyzed that the leadership of Al Qaida run away, they did not stay there where the US started bombing in 2001, they run away as did Osama run away and were hiding almost 10 years, still many leadership members of Al Qaida are hiding …they just run away …
It is fun to remember the past, back in May 2002 when I came back to my homeland (had not been in the past 10 years) i actually slept on lawns and in bushes of Helsinki at least for one week, I waited my auto to arrive from Belgium, once I slept on one square next to the palace of President … and then my auto arrived …
You’re just a home lover. All your travels were to teach you that you were really searching for your home.
I suppose you are right, once my home was one military unit, then I have had many other homes … I think that one 2-story house in America was also my home … back then …it is actually funny, back in Oct 2000 I came back from NYC and arrived at one parking lot in Miami Beach and I thought ‘it was nice to come back home’ … funny that you brought this issue up …