Ako
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You’re asking what keeps me hopeful?
Knowing it’s not over yet.
Waking up every day, slipping on my shoes, grabbing my bag, and heading out to make it through another day without checking the calendar.
And you know how I do it?
By not thinking!
If I think about it, I’d lose my mind. I’d panic at where I’m standing, feel disgusted by who I am, and everything around me would turn into darts, piercing my mind and soul.
But here’s the thing sometimes I see it.
That darkness, that final curtain! No matter how much I try to ignore it, sometimes it pushes my hands off my eyes and forces me to face it, scaring me to death.
That’s why I sink into myself sometimes.
I see sadness, I speak sadness, and I start believing I’m trapped in this endless grief with no escape. I’m stuck, Theo!
Caught between accepting reality and hoping for days that haven’t come.
I want to tell myself nothing’s real not this constant, tangible mess, nor that deceptive high.
I wish there were no expectations. No demands from myself, no waiting for something.
But it’s like I was born to wrestle with the unwanted, to just wait.
I exist to suffer through all this through talent that led nowhere, a heart never satisfied, and a body left with nothing but the exhaustion of it all.
And my deepest fear, Theo? That the darkness at the end is the real truth. 0 reply
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On January 24, 1939, twelve Swedish parliament members nominated British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain for the Nobel Peace Prize.
They argued that Chamberlain’s Munich Agreement with Hitler in September 1938, which handed over Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland to Germany, had saved world peace.
According to their nomination letter, Chamberlain was the one who “through this dangerous time saved our part of the world from a terrible catastrophe.”
Three days later, I, Erik Brandt, a Swedish Social Democrat parliamentarian, sent a letter to the Norwegian Nobel Committee nominating German Chancellor Adolf Hitler for the Nobel Peace Prize.
In an interview with Svenska Morgonposten, I explained that my nomination was meant as pure irony.
Chamberlain’s nomination had provoked me, and I nominated Hitler as a protest against him and Nazism.
The Munich Agreement was nothing but a betrayal of Czechoslovakia by the Western powers, who handed over Sudetenland just to keep the peace.
Neither Chamberlain nor Hitler deserved a Peace Prize. In a letter to the editor of the anti-Nazi newspaper Trots Allt after World War II broke out in the fall of 1939, I wrote that my nomination of Hitler was meant to “use irony to suggest a Peace Prize for Hitler and, by doing so, pin him to the wall of shame as the world’s number one enemy of peace.”
But when the backlash to my nomination hit hard, and it became clear that most people in Sweden didn’t catch the irony, I decided to withdraw Hitler’s nomination.
On February 1, 1939,the last day for nominations,I sent a letter to the Norwegian Nobel Committee to take it back. 0 reply
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