The Bittersweet Symphony

In Finland, no one cares that you have blue, red, green or no hair. If you have a tattoo, a lot of them or a sleeve. Also they don't care if you have a piercing or 10, they are just happy the way they are. Aside from the fact Finns are too shy to even comment on them in the streets, they don't really care. For them, it doesn't really matter how you look, as long as you are doing your job right, live a respectful life. No Finns come in all their viarity and no one really cares. Of course there is some bullying here and there, but in compersion to other countries it is not that much.

In the Netherlands we hold the ideal high you can examine a person compleetly by it's lookings. Hair dyed in a non-natrual hair collour? Then you are weird, strange and could best be ignored or called names. Do you want to become a social worker? The fewer piercings and tattoo's, the better you will be in your job. You like rock or metal? Despite that all possible research says you have probably a very high inteligence level, Dutchies think you are too stupid to work and you could better be home and unemployed. We think you are weird and non-standard? You could better be in heavy psychiatric clinics or council sessions.

Luckily, the Netherlands and Finland embrace diffrences in all their weirdnes'. Even though we not always want to admit this, it is some kind of guilty plesure for us. Also I'm happy to know that most countries and people on this world think the same way. There are also people we don't like weird people or their beliefs, ideas or values. That's ok, we can't agree with everything on this world but as long we accept and respect each other we come a long way. But today, we are all once remindend that there are people who mis the abbility to do that. Once again people have to miss, family, loved once and like me friends. This time it is in Brussels, Belgium, but before that it was Ankara, Turkey and Paris, France and too much more before that. And all this 24 year old Dutch weirdo can wonder, is when does this all end and can we be happy once more like we did once before.