About ten thousand years ago - I can’t recall those times too well as old as I am - there was a cold climate period that was in my current neighbourhood so extreme that in order to survive the remaining people adopted certain behaviour models that have stuck throughout the years.
Up until january it was a peculiarly funny to look at a photograph taken on a bus stop anywhere in Finland. People were maintaining a very strict distance to the nearest person. No closer than two metres, please. Here when two people meet, there preferrably is no physical contact. When nordics have time off from work, they usually go to a remote location that has no closest neighbour. I am aware how hard it is to let go of these manners.
I am aware how hard it is for a fellow finn to make even an eye contact or speak in public or the scariest situation of them all when a finn has to chit-chat some small talk in a cocktail party. And then comes a global virus.
Suddenly the doctors’ orders around the world seem hard to obey if you are from anywhere else. Doctors do not exaggerate. If you don’t have it in your ancestors inheritance you do need to be told how to keep away from one and another. What is natural to us was funny to others not long ago.
A month has gone by and the mankind has adopted finnish manners.
I wonder how long does it take to greet a person cheek to cheek again in a central european normal way. It does not happen in Finland, rest assured.
-Ari
P.S. I am deliberately writing with finnish grammar rules some letters such as nationalities without shouting, deal with it. And thousand million is not a billion, it’s a milliard (miljardi in finnish), try to use it or write it with numbers, please.
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