We have all lost something in these past hours. Some lost their lives, some lost loved ones, some lost friends and co-workers, some lost their offices. I lost my smile. Norway, she lost her innosence, her purity and in part, her beauty. Yet, Norway is as beautiful as ever before. All the kindness that is flowing freely, next to images of wrecked buildings and scared youth running, it's heartbreaking and comforting, all at once.
The world press might have been right, that Norway has been naiv and closed minded, thinking that catastrophic events like these doesn't hit us here, in our mountainess fortress up north. Yet I don't think we have completely shut dowm the idea of attavk, I mean, some of our own still remember how it is, beeing under attack. But this, I think this, is something no one could have imagined.
I know I sat in misbelief when I saw the images from Oslo, where the goverment headquarters were completely shattered, yet, that was an attack one could understand. But how does it gain your cause, our your purpose, to shoot, relatively randomly at young, happy people, gathered to learn more about democracy and freedom?
Now it's time to show that we can rise abow, and that what has happened, won't tear us apart. We are a small country, where tragedy in some way strikes us all. Let's rise and show that mountains can't be easily shaken, and that Norway is still strong and proud to be a land of hope, democracy and freedom.
I still won't smile for a while....
