This is exciting!

Hi fellow Steemians,

My name is Paul, I live in Stockholm and I’ve never been so excited about any other platform as I am about Steemit. I think this platform has great potential and it may very well revolutionise the internet and the world.

I’m a curious person and love to learn and experience new things. I always try to keep my mind open to new thoughts and ideas.

I am fascinated by existence and life and I’ve gone from holding a typically western materialistic world view to believing that consciousness actually is the source of all energy, matter and space-time, all that we experience and all that we are. I feel an ever deeper love and respect for all my fellow beings. Because in the things that really matter we are all so much more alike than we are different. We may perceive reality in different ways (see different colours, hear different frequencies, think and behave differently), but the experience of living is basically the same.

I’m a vegan for my fellow beings (yes humans too) and for the planet. I’m passionate about freedom, justice, equality and peace and I believe veganism is one of the most important social justice movements of our time. Veganism isn't perfect - in fact it's the least we can do. It's about choosing respect, kindness, peace and living in a way that causes as little harm as possible to our fellow beings and to our beautiful planet's ecosystem.

I’ve been moving towards minimalism for some years now and it’s so wonderfully liberating. I don’t want to own a lot of unnecessary stuff and I actually find empty spaces and minimalistic decor quite appealing and peaceful. It’s good for me and good for the planet and I’m loving it.

For about 3 years now I’ve been suffering from ME/CFS, which is a very debilitating and misunderstood illness. I’m not going to go into detail about it in this post, but I need to mention it as some of the many limitations it imposes on my life, for the time being, also affect how much and in which ways I will be able to post and interact with you on this platform.

For some reason I get worse from looking at screens these days, so I need to limit my time online to a minimum. This means that it’s hard for me to read long blogs and most of my own blogs will probably be quite short and not very frequent. Also making videos is not an option at the moment, as editing video (which I love doing) requires you to sit in front of a screen for longer than I am able to. As would be doing the necessary research in order to present you with correct info and and interesting content.

So what am I doing here you might ask? Well, I’ll be listening to your vids, looking at your photos, reading the occasional blog and of course commenting, upvoting what I appreciate and sometimes resteeming posts that I find interesting. And I will be posting photos. So I’ll still be able to interact a bit.

For now most of my posts will be photographs. Photography is one of my interests, along with music, plants, film/video, food and travelling. Sadly travelling is also off limits at the moment as I’ve been practically homebound for almost 3 years now. But I know recovery is possible (even though it’s difficult) and I still have my dreams. I am open to all the goodness, insight and excitement that life has to offer. You are most welcome to follow me on my journey.

"Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu" - May all beings everywhere be happy and free and may the thoughts, words, and actions of my own life contribute in some way to that happiness and to that freedom for all.