Country of Jante

People ask me about my plans for the future, but what's the point in telling them when they don't believe in me anyway? They don't believe me when I say I will move to Wales, they don't believe me when I say that I'll start my own business. All they say is that it's too hard. Why? In this country there's an unwritten law called the Law of Jante, and its basic meaning is that you're not supposed to think you are anything. It's easy to be called a bitch. All you have to do is show some self confidence and you're one.

Nobody realises it, but everybody follows it. What a fine way to look at your fellow citizens. And i know they think that my plans are just something I say. I say a lot of things. But is that so strange? There are a lot of things I want to do. Sure, you can have an idea in your head and then change your mind. But about my future life in Wales - I have never been so sure about anything before. And if you've thought about it constantly since you were fourteen years old, then it can't be "just something you say", can it? I still follow the theory that nothing is impossible, and with that way of thinking it can't go wrong, I'm convinced.