Author: Sirkka Hänninen

Sirkka Hänninen (韩希卡) is a bird in a concrete jungle, who despite her physical disability is learning to fly like Jonathan Livingston Seagull. In this blog, she shares her thoughts and experiences, offering a unique perspective on life, resilience, and the pursuit of dreams. Join her on this journey as she navigates the challenges and triumphs of everyday life, always striving to soar higher.

  • Awakening

    As I woke up from coma in the beginning of 1979 I had a feeling that some kind of miracle had happened to me. To my mind there are no miracles as such. I thought that the universe hardly operates against its own natural laws. A miracle was in my mind a sudden incident where…

  • Mother in Memoriam

    My mother has always had a special place in my heart. When I was a child the connection between us was tangible: She was a part of me. Merely a glance between us was often enough to calm me down. She was a dress maker and I enjoyed watching her working:she took her blue measuring…

  • Study Plans

    Just before the fatal New Years Eve I had finished the curriculum of my school. I had only the final exam before me that was needed to seal the school education.I had accomplished the first tests as I was in rehabilitation centre. In spring 1980 I completed the second part of the exam. Someone thought…

  • Out of Pure Friendship

    One year after the stroke, in the New Year’s Eve 1979, I was feeling like a newborn child. My former life time had passed by and nothing new was built to replace it. I felt that I had an endless amount of blank paper before me, on which I could create my life just as…

  • We all have our role to play

    The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust As I got my handicap I had from the very beginning the feeling that it was not so important to have many different kind of experiences. More important was that I learned to see my experiences from…

  • What happened to me?

    In my text Foretaste of Forthcoming I write that I found a sustainable ground for my life over 30 years ago in the lyrics of an ancient oriental hymn. I am glad that I can stand tall now and say: this is how it happened. But as everything was happening to me I did not…

  • What do we need?

    In my text Foretaste of Forthcoming I write that as I wrote the basis for this blog everything seemed to gather together by itself and things that I needed appeared miraculously before me as I had the very thought of what I needed. It raised in my mind a thought that the Law of Attraction…