This past weekend I had yet another friend visiting me here in London!
About two weeks ago Henrik Engdahl was here, this past weekend went in the colors of Daniel Norberg.
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Daniel and I go way back. Can’t even remember when we first met, but it most have been first day in school about 21 years ago (maybe I don’t remember that, but I do remember when Daniel came to school with a new Tony Alva skateboard… it was soooo coool).
We were in the same class for 9 years, then we went a bit different ways but we have kept contact through out.
Meanwhile I was playing guitar and doing the ‘rock thing’, Daniel lived in New York and did the ‘athlete thing’. Then when I did the ‘interactive’ thing in Karlskrona, Daniel did the ‘economy’ thing in Stockholm. Now Im doing the ‘interactive design/development things’ in London and he’s doing ‘bank’ things in Stockholm.
It’s quite interesting these things with really old friends. How you can share so much in-common, but yet be quite so different. As Daniel said before he came over:
‘looking forward to met someone with a different perspective then the people I met in my everyday life’.
And that’s an interesting thing. Cause once you have kind of stabilised your life, values, career or what ever and everything else, you kind of tend to just met the same kind of people all the time - people just like you. If I met Daniel today, I would probably not even gotten past the ‘weather’ chat. Now, instead, I wouldn’t mind calling his mom/dad/sister and ask how everything is going (which I kind of don’t do with the friends I have made later on in life, since I most often haven’t even met their mom/dad/sister nor know their name or have there phone number).
The word ‘Friends’ is so multidimensional.
During these days he’s been here (Wednesday til today, Sunday), London has offered some traditional English weather - rain. It’s not really fair. So we haven’t been able to, or had the mood to, do much of the walking around and doing the touristic stuff. The good side of that is that it got to be more beer, coffee, food and talk stuff instead (and of cause the Shins gig(almost forgot)).
One thing Daniel mentioned he would like to do (during these long coffee, beer and food chats), and that I like to encourage him to do; is write (as in journalism and get thoughts down on paper). Not like a complete change of profession or anything like that, just allow some brain cells to circulate a more creative route from time to time and not just the logical straight bank route.
So yesterday I register a domain and this afternoon I have made him a blog.
Daniel is still on the buss towards Stockholm, so he hasn’t seen anything yet, but here’s the beginning of www.danielnorberg.com
