Hello!
My name is Markus Östberg and I am a 45 year old Finnish man. I have been divorced, but I have a good relationship with my ex-spouse. I have two wonderful children who are getting to the age where they start their adulthood (18y and 17y). I have a masters degree in economics and business administration, but the things I will write about will not be attached to my education or my job. This blog was made to be my “notebook” on issues that are related to Life in different ways. Thus the blog name: LifeValueBlogger.
The beginning of these posts (or at least the start of them) date back to year 2015 when I was beginning to write a letter of things I had learned personally in my life and the letter was intended to be a gift to both of my sons, when they would complete the ritual called “confirmation” by the national church of Finland.
The confirmation takes place when children are in their teens (about 15 years old) and it is the last phase that started in baptism as a child and it is to day that in the eyes of the church, they have reached maturity in the eyes of the church.
However I had some personal challenger to finish writing the letter when the time came, so I was unfortunately unable to give them this present I had planned. I did later end up giving the things I had finished to them with a time to explain what I meant when writing the things.
Still this is also a project for me to finish the things I have selected from the letters in this way and by this also give updated info to my children. The originals were written in somewhat different wording as they ware to my two own sons, so in this blog I have changed the wording to be more common than specific to my children.
This is just to give some background information of the texts and how the originals were born.
I hope you enjoy!
Best regards,
Markus