Unbelievable things.

The famous Danish writer H.C. Andersen wrote stories and fairy tales, mostly for children, but with messages that also pertained to adults, especially to the righteous and infallible, those who thought that they knew it all and had all the answers. His story from 1872 entitled 'The Most Unbelievable', or in Danish, 'Det Utroligste', is both fun and useful to read, well, if we are willing to reflect on the writer's imaginative ideas, sometimes child-like, but also applicable to those who have forgotten that they once were children-when they were allowed to believe that the most unbelievable things could happen. H.C. Andersen tells about many unbelievable things, which people talked about and imagined, but didn't quite believe could come true.

It was all included in the most beautiful artwork, a painting so fantastic that nobody had seen anything like it. It won people's admiration, and the painter won the princess and half the kingdom, as was always the conclusion in fairy tales of the time. But it didn't end there. All the beautiful pieces in the painting turned real. The candle lights in the church became shining flowers and the chandeliers under the ceiling turned into stars in the sky of heaven-or so the people thought. The morale in the story is as simple as it is rare, namely that it is the immaterial things that must become material and real. But first, we must dream and think of the unthinkable and unbelievable. We must believe in change first, and then through our efforts, it can happen.

The Russian and the West's war in Ukraine could end today if we wanted it to. The world's poverty, too, could be eradicated, within and between countries and continents, between neighbours and residential quarters, degree holders and people without many worldly assets, and so on. But first, we must imagine that the most incredible things can happen, and then we can make strategies and plans for change.

In peaceful Norway, they have a conflict that has reached the surface and media headlines. The indigenous Sami people, who traditionally are reindeer herdsmen, have a conflict with the central government over 150 wind turbines built in a grazing area for the reindeer in a Sami community on the Fosen Peninsula outside the city of Trondheim. The Supreme Court judged in 2021 that the turbines inflicted negatively on the animals and therefore the Sami community in the area. The construction of wind turbines was constructed illegally as the authorities...