Reinarbréfin

I find that life is a great challenge, and right around the corner is a new one waiting for you. Since I live in Iceland I started this yesterday writing in Icelandic. But many of my friends, and even of my family, do not understand Icelandic, so I have decided to make another section of my blog in English.

This blog in English is quite different, just writing under the general heading of Life as a Challenge.

So, why is life a challenge? Is there any other reason to live than to be happy, having peace, and enjoy every fiber of your living experience?

This is the third year since my wife for more than half a century succumbed to breast cancer. Several times we thought we had found the cure, but we discovered that often the medication administered to cancer patients do more harm than good. Even some of the physicians helping her admitted that to me. So a cure for cancer is a challenge, but right now it isn't mine. I encounter different challenges.

Some months after I was alone, I started talking to the wife of my best boyhood friend, who died several years ago. I also knew her when we were children. We decided we had so many things in common that we could manage a senior life together.

We find that a real peaceful marriage without "figting" is a real challenge. Is this possible? How?

Do you want to meet a similar challenge? How?

"Life is a challenge" - lífið er ögrun frá vöggu til grafar. Hver einasti dagur er ögrun til mín um að njóta lífsins og finna stærri gleði og ánægju. En er það eiginlega nauðsynlegt? Get ég ekki aðeins látið hlutina sigla sinn eigin sjó, og biðið þess sem mætir mér á hverri stundu?

Liggur ögrun í því að taka ákvarðanir á hverjum degi?

Mín ögrun til þín er að segja frá því, hvernig lífið er dagleg ögrun, eða koma með rök fyrir því, að lífið er alls ekki nein ögrun.

Við skulum talast við. . .