Astrid & Irene: share it

“How are you?” Lots of people ask that question—it can be a neighbor, a friend 
or someone writing you an email. And we usually answer that we’re fine. Because 
of course we’re fine! Also, we don’t like to complain. But just like for everyone else, life is sometimes not so fine. A dear friend dies. A co-worker experiences a heavy loss she has to deal with. Sisters become ill. Or we don’t physically feel 100 percent and our bodies step on the brakes.

That’s how these things go, because that’s life. For all of us. Acknowledging when things go well, rolling with the flow when it’s stormy, intervening when things become impossible to bear and dealing with what is in your path. We’ve had to learn that happiness is not a constant, that not everything has to be a success, and that life has light and dark sides and that they can coexist. Making Flow and reading all the stories from our freelancers about their non-perfect lives has certainly helped us to see that.