Friday 4 March 2011

this is an introductory post

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I was waiting for my crêpes in Paris and my face was doing something weird.

I've been putting off writing an introductory post for weeks. It's high time I grabbed myself by the neck, as we say here in Finland, and churned it out.

Hello. My name is Iida (pronounced ee-duh), I am eighteen years of age and I live just outside Helsinki. I'm Finnish but I was born in England, and I'm bilingual. I attend a high school focused on the arts.

I write, I read, I take photographs, I sail (tall ships, not yachts). I listen to quite a lot of music, jazz and 60's pop and this thing called indie. Pretty much anything with a bit of banjo and whispery vocals.

I am scared shitless by most things in life. I'm a perfectionist to the most ridiculous degree. I'm also inherently lazy and prone to procrastinate.

I'm chronically awkward and ridiculously self-indulgent. It's my second nature to keep a running record of my thoughts and feelings. Like most of us who write, I feel a desperate need to catalogue and define my existence, to pin down my life for fear of forgetting.

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My mother wanted to photograph me in front of La Fontaine Médicis and my face resorted to weirdness again.

I've been seeing my therapist for about a year. I've been having a hard time coping with my (truly terribly low) self-esteem, my perfectionism, my difficulties in social situations, my self-harm. It's nothing you haven't heard of before but I have the misfortune of having to live through it. The good thing is that these days I find it much easier to be hopeful about my future

(And the most important thing about me, the reason I write this blog, what it all boils down to: I'm learning to be honest.)

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8 comments:

  1. Oh, it's great to know something more about you! ;)
    And I really have to say it - you look so beautiful! I like your glasses and your hair and the way they go with your whole face.
    (Could it be that Finnish girls have got principally beautiful short hair cuts?)
    Love,
    Enele

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  2. Aw, thank you! I love my glasses too, they're so stand-out I barely need to put any effort into the rest of my face. ;)
    I think short hair on girls might be more common in Scandinavia than elsewhere. In general. I don't know, to be honest! :)

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  3. :OOOOOO
    Tiedän sut!
    Olin kattoo sun vanhoja ja mun rinnakkaisluokkalainen aleksi oli sun pari?!
    :D jännää, et oon seurannu sua nää pitkät ajat ja ihan sattumalta tiiänki kuka olet :DD
    iiit's a small world aaafter all
    iiit's a small world aaafter all
    iiit's a small world aaafter all it's a smaall woorld aafter aaaaall ^^

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  4. ah! and p.s. I too am scared shitless of most things in life. Particularly the things i love

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  5. Maria: Wooot, jännää! Tosin Aleksi tuntee mm. kaikki, joten siinä mielessä ei yllätä. Mutta joo pieni maailma pieni kaupunki ja silleen :D

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  6. Vilma: Aina. For your eyes only, my dear ;)

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  7. It's nice to know a little more about you, Iida. I always enjoy reading your blog posts :) I am obsessed with so many of the things on your list too!

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