User:Lova Falk

This is me. This year I will be fifty. I am utterly fascinated by the process of ageing. Somehow, I thought I would no longer be me at fifty years old, but I still am. Yet it is true, things have changed. I no longer hitchhike to travel. It must be fifteen years ago since I last hitchhiked from Knutby (Sweden) to Amsterdam. I don't live anymore in a commune and I no longer quit my job so I can go to India and sit with a spiritual master. And I will never again study a new language for a couple of months, put three changes of clothing and a toothbrush in a rucksack, and leave my home country to start afresh somewhere else. I have understood that it is too late for some aspirations. I'm very interested in neuropsychology, but I won't specialize into this field, even though I did recently complete a specialist course in clinical neuropsychology. But apart from these few things that have disappeared, so much more has been added to my life. The greatest one of all, I found love. I share my life with the most wonderful man in the cosmos and beyond. He has brought his children and grandchildren into my life. I have a job I enjoy. I am a school psychologist in an immigrant area close to Stockholm. My main task is assessment, but I am blessed to have the freedom to do whatever I think is needed to help a child and its family.

After work, I bike home. Halfway, my husband joins me. We have decided to sell our car. A car is a primitive, stinking and obsolete means of transport, which has not developed in a hundred years. There are also new areas of interest. As a teenager, I could not be bothered with chemistry or science, but lately I have studied both. To me, it is the greatest mystery of all that everything is mostly nothing. All this space between electrons and the nucleus, filled with nothing, nothing at all! One of the pleasures of science is that you can illustrate with nice pictures. Here is my favourite neuropics site. I especially like the "learning pictures", with and without labels. And then there is Wikipedia. To me, contributing to Wikipedia is a beautiful exercise in getting involved and letting go immediately. And yes, the best of the internet is free! The Psychology Barnstar Awarded in recognition of your great work fighting vandalism and adding reliable sources in the area of Psychology. MartinPoulter (talk) 16:31, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

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