Post by JONAS MIKAEL NORLING on Aug 2, 2013 16:33:15 GMT -8
| [atrb=style,width: 420px; background-color: efefef; background-image: url(http://24.media.tumblr.com/0478144b9f16c95a37367d1aca56b45c/tumblr_mkfax8tDxp1s97ldco1_500.png); padding: 5px, bTable] JONAS M. NORLING 15 | HETEROSEXUAL | UNEMPLOYED | HIGH SCHOOL | IAN NELSON THE INTERVIEW HELLO. THANKS FOR COMING IN TODAY. SHALL WE START WITH YOUR NAME? "Hi, nice to meet you. Name's Jonas. But don't call me Jojo, that's my brother's nickname. And I really don't like being called it. But my entire name is Jonas Mikael Norling. Scandinavian. It rocks." THAT'S A NICE NAME. WHAT DO YOU DO FOR A LIVING? "Heh, well for a living. I go to school. Well during the fall and spring, you know. Like when teens go to school. I don't really have a job though. I should probably get one before my dad starts nagging at me to get one. But you know I just kinda of want to stay young as long as possible. Growing up too quickly seems scary. This fall I'm going into Tenth grade. Sophomore year. Should be really interesting I think. At least that's what my brother says." INTERESTING. WHAT DO YOU DO FOR FUN? "Let's see, for hobbies, it's somewhat limited because my parents don't like me doing a lot of things that could be hazardous to my health. Which is funny since my brother risks his life everyday rescuing people out of buildings and trees and cold water. But you know I guess they might have a point somewhere along the way. For the most part I'm not a jock, I don't do sports, don't care for them. My parents tried to get me to do sports when I was younger, especially with Josef being a baseball player, but I rather watch the sports than actually play them. But don't get me wrong I'll play a sport freely, just not on a team. I just don't care for that atmosphere for the most part. So for the most part I'm just weird like that in a way. I like to read, which is odd, but I don't really care what others think about me. Everyone has their own interests so they shouldn't be bothered or judged about it anyways. At least that's what Josef says. To not worry about what others think and just do what you like to do and people will be just fine with your decisions. So basically my hobbies are the following: reading books, hanging with friends, spending time with my brother, um, playing with my dog. For likes, um, I dunno. I like ice cream, preferably Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream. I can eat the entire container of ice cream within a week, just because who can resist such a good ice cream. My mom doesn't like it when I eat it all and tells to me to eat it slowly and enjoy it a little more than having it gone within the week. It's probably because she hates buying it over and over again every week when we go shopping. But you know it's not like it that big of a deal though. I do everything I'm told, even if I don't like doing it." WOULD YOU SAY THOSE ACTIVITIES REFLECT WHO YOU ARE? "Well I'd say those activities would reflect part of who I am really. I can list off the personality traits that my mom call tell that I am and a little bit of what my brother says as well. My mom says these are the personality traits that I behold: fragile, friendly, focused, open-minded, logical, thoughtful, and smart. Now I wouldn't say that I'm not those, but I guess when you're mom tells you that you have those personality traits it sort of starts to look that way. But my brother sees a different side of me though, and says these are the personality traits that I also have: stubborn, sensitive, empathetic, and curious. So to be honest I can somewhat see myself as having those personality traits. Fragile: vulnerably delicate, as in appearance. To say the least I am somewhat fragile, I can't always take what people do to me. Like verbal abuse, physical abuse. Not that there is any of that, but if there was I try to make myslef as strong as possible, but sometimes it's not that easy. I really am fragile in some situations, being the one who takes the beating and just leave with it, showing a side that's not there to stick up to it and be like what my brother says for me to be. Friendly: characteristic of or befitting a friend; showing friendship. I'm friendly to most people. I show the side that I'm most comfortable with when meeting people and hanging around my friends. So I can say that I'm fairly good at befriending people really easily, a side that I actually prefer. But sometimes it lashes back at me, and I'm usually paying the consequences of it, but I can usually take it. Focused: a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity; to concentrate. With school I tend to focus a lot on my studies just because I don't care to fail my classes. And if I do fail my classes, then it's not much of something that turns out to be good at home. I will get stuck doing chores until the end of them for receiving an F in one of my classes or anything other than something above a C. But I'm not just focused in school either, whether it's a job that I have to do around the house or helping my brother or sister with something I usually am focused enough to get it done and over with so I can do other things. Open-Minded: having or showing a mind receptive to new ideas or arguments. When new ideas are brought to the table I'm usually somewhat accepting of them just because they might help out in a situation. I try not to by closed minded and ignore an idea because being like isn't really going to solve anything. One has to have a veiw point on something and to discredit anything that is new to yourself just seems to be something that you're not use to. Yes I will admit that it might take some time to get use to the idea, but over time I guess it just becomes a little easier for me to understand it a little bit more. Logical: reasoning in accordance with the principles of logic, as a person or the mind. Well considering everyone needs logic in their lives to survive well, it makes sense for me to be somewhat logical in making decisions. I don't know where it really comes from because when I make a decision on something I take forever to do so, like the wheels in my head are always turning, but like they are turning at a faster pace that it seems like I just can't make a decision right on the spot without giving it time to think it over before answering. Something I see as a downfall for me, just because I take forever to answer and most of the time people just leave me in the dust because they can't stand to wait for me to hear what I have to answer. Thoughtful: showing consideration for others; considerate. This is something that I don't need to be told that I have this trait because I really do know that I have it. I always seem to go out of my way to help others just because I don't think it's nice to leave them there without any help and to help people seems to be something that most people seem to forget lately. As our world continues to grow, people just become more self-involved with themselves that they forget there is other people around them and to be honest I would rather have people around me than no people. And considering Josef is a firefighter, it makes it seem as if he is thoughtful too even though it's his job to help people. And I sort of what to become who he is, someone who can help people whether its a small job or something that reaches out of expectations for people. Smart: having or showing quick intelligence or ready mental capability. This is one trait that I would rather not be defined as because many people are smart. And to say the least, there are times that I don't always make the smart moves on something. But in the honest truth, I think my smarts rely more on school work than anything else. Because when you're not in school you tend to not do anything smart. And I'm pretty smart with my school work, just not so much outside of the school grounds as my brother would say. Stubborn: unreasonably obstinate; obstinately unmoving. This something that I usually show when I'm with Josef just because sometimes he's a push over and doesn't like doing a lot of things when he's on his day off. And I don't like doing things that he might want to do which basically leads to nothing really. I make his life somewhat hard with indecisive moves being taken place. Annoying him like a little brother is suppose to do . Sensitive: having acute mental or emotional sensibility; aware of and responsive to the feelings of others. Josef tells me that I'm sensitive, and that there is not wrong with that. But when I ask my dad if I'm sensitive he tells me differently, he says that I'm a little bit on the soft side because I feel sorry for people and that I can't handle some things in life that get thrown my way. When I asked my mom she said it's okay to be sensitive, because at some point everyone is, even if they are a grown man hiding behind the walls that hide his true feelings. And right then and there, I instantly thought of Josef, but that's not the point. When I'm around Josef I tend to be somewhat easy on him just because he hasn't really changed much since his accident, but to be hard on him would be like being cruel and pounding him with questions and answers. So to say that I'm sensitive is something that I don't like to bring forth to anyone. Because I am, in a sense sensitive to things. I don't like to see people hurt, I cringe at the thought of pain, and blood. I can stand to be around Josef when he smells like fire smoke for the sake I think directly of people that might have been lost due to a fire. Empathetic: of, pertaining to, or characterized by empathy. I feel sorry for those who feel hurt. I feel their pain, to know the pain of losing someone. Even if I have not lost anyone in my family that was very close besides Josef's girlfriend, Eloise. But to say that people who are hurt or have an uncontrolled loss sector upon them I tend to feel the same way. To know how they feel is something that's a loss of words for me to explain. I just don't understand what really happens, I just know that I feel their pain. I feel sorry and at fault even for things I haven't even done or committed. It's something that just happens. To be there to see it and to see it turn to the worse possible outcome is something that destroys you from the inside out, to know the truth of something and not be able to share it. Curious: arousing or exciting speculation, interest, or attention through being inexplicable or highly unusual; odd; strange. To say the least I'm always curious, it doesn't matter what it is or where I am. I always get curious, probably as the saying goes. Curiosity killed the cat. I think I might be that cat later on in life, just saying though. Since my curiosity gets the better of me at times, and just overwhelms my senses that I usually forget that I'm in this dark place that I've never been and I'm looking around wondering where the hell the exit is." A COOL CAT LIKE YOU MUST HAVE A TON OF SUITORS FLOCKING TO YOU, HUH? "Um, what? Suitors flocking towards me? Well I'm only fifteen years old, and um, I think I'm the suitor and not the other way around. I, um, have never had a girlfriend or any interest in one really. But don't get me wrong though, most of the people at school think Whitney and I should like date, but you know I don't see her as a girlfriend. I see her as a friend who is a girl. Besides I don't know if I would really know how to get a girl anyways. Like I know if I asked Josef he might give me some pointers or my dad, but that's just a little weird to ask them about this. Like with Josef he gets teary eyed when we might talk about girls. So I wouldn't go and ask him for advice. But to ask my dad for advice on girls, well that just may seem a little weird, as he grew up over seas. I don't know if it's the same there as it is here or not. But I can say I'm not shooting for the same sex as me though. I just think it's odd, but I'm not against it. Because you everyone deserves that special someone no matter what team they are rooting for." COOL BEANS. THEY SAY YOUR FAMILY SHAPES WHO YOU ARE. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOURS? "Cool beans? Wow you have some serious problems if you're using those words together, besides who the heck uses that phrase anymore? Anyways, my relationships with my family is a little weird, as I'm the baby of the family. Yes I said baby, I'm the youngest child, and I take great pride in using that to my advantage. Guilt trip all the way! So considering Josef is like ten years older than I am its a little weird for the both of us really. I look up to him a lot because well he's my big brother, and aren't little brothers always suppose to look up to their older ones? Well I think so. He has some aspect of being there for me even if it's not always the right time or the right thing to do. But he's always there for me, as I'm always there for him. Gry, well we have a little bit different relationship to say the least. As she's like twelve years older than me and has a baby to take care of, we really don't get to see much of each other than much. As it is, growing up was something a little different for each of us, as she usually picked on me most of the time with that sisterly love. But with her and Josef being the older siblings they sort of didn't like it when they had to babysit me when our parents went out and I couldn't do with them. Like they thought it was a burden for them to do something with me. It wasn't like I was a problem a child. The relationship with my parents is probably a little bit better than with Gry and probably a little less than what I have with Josef, now. Like we have our times together and have fun when we go out to eat or go see a movie or go to an amusement park together. But you know that's how parents and their children are suppose to be like. They are suppose to have some sort of relationship together, and my parents and I are on good terms. They care about me, but they also give me my space like they did with Josef and Gry." AND YOUR LIFE? TELL ME ABOUT YOUR PAST. I'M EAGER TO HEAR. "Well my history seems to be a little bit different than my brother's and sister's as they were born across the ocean. Somewhere in Sweden, and I'm born here, in Brunswick, Maine. So I guess I don't really have a cool place to call my birth place besides my hometown. Josef and Gry have cooler cities. So I'm basically the accident child. If you couldn't figure that out then where have you been? It's not like I was planned or anything, considering Josef is ten years older than me, and Gry is twelve years older than me. He is 26 years old and she is 28 years old. And I'm 15 almost 16. No one has really said that I was the accident child, but it is indicated that I was though. Considering my family is Swedish and Norwegian, learning the language was a little bit too easy. I grew up learning three different languages, for a little kid like myself I didn't think too much of it. It wasn't that hard to do, and my parents kept it going throughout the years so I'm basically fluent in three languages. Though don't ask me what my first language is though, because I wouldn't be able to answer that question. And if I do answer that question I reply with three different choices, leaving the speaker in shock. They expected me to say only one language and to be honest I learned all three at once so it was a little confusing at times. My mom speaks Norwegian more, especially when talking on the phone to grandparents and other friends in Norway. So I pick up the Norwegian words from her and she still tests me on them so I can keep up with the language throughout my life. My dad on the other side is Swedish so he speaks the language of the Swedes, haha I just used slang. Haha, I just cracked my own self up. I'm sorry, but he also expects me to keep the language up as well. So it's a toss up to say the least, but it makes it so much easier to understand my grandparents when they come into town though. As both sides won't learn to speak the other language and one of us gets stuck being the translator. Sadly that is me because they always spend their time at my house instead of anywhere else and Josef and Gry have their own homes and are the lucky ones. Well growing up seemed like a breeze for the most part, I didn't really do any sports growing up besides watching Josef play baseball throughout his high school years and in his college years until he just stopped playing it all together. And when tragedy struck with the family and Josef getting burned well things just got weird. It was on the news that a barn was burned down, and I was near that barn with a few friends and their older siblings who were watching us and wanted to show us cool things. I know that the news and newspaper said that hay bales were the caused of the fire because they were wet and were brought into the barn where it was dry and warm, but that's not what started it. I know what happened, and it still somewhat haunts me to this day a little bit to know that things sort of went out of control that night. We saw the fire and we booked it out of there, we didn't know that there were college students in there having a party from hours before and that two of them stayed behind. So when I arrived home, the news was blasting in the living room, and my parents were huddled over the table holding onto to each other. I didn't think much of it, about the barn and the fire, but they didn't seem like they were going to tell me what was wrong. But you have to remember I was ten when this all happened so I didn't know what I was doing. So when I sat down next to my dad and watched the television, he pulled me in towards him and held onto me. They later stated that Josef was in the hospital and was in a coma, medically induced. I didn't understand what that meant, but we went to go see him the next day to see how he was coping even though he would still be in the coma until he was healed enough to feel better than to feel the burns he endured. We had gone to visit him everyday since he was in the hospital until he was released, and when he got home he went to go sulk into his room. No one really bothered him when he was in room, because no one knew how to help him. He had lost his high school sweetheart and it just seemed really weird to me as I wasn't use to things happening like this. To lose someone that close must be really hard, to have it happen to your brother it just seems really weird. Even now I don't really understand it that much. But Josef gets by the best he can even though I know he fakes it when I'm over at his apartment. He just tries to act cool and just and be like the normal person everyone wants him to be." WHAT ABOUT A SECRET? EVERYONE HAS A SECRET. "Um, I know everyone has secrets, but... I dunno. You know I've told you about everything else, and this one could come back to bite me in the ass. You know like it's something you want to hold on to because you're too afraid to tell the person that you know what happened. Because telling that person will make them hate you forever and ever, and it will destroy the relationship you have with them. It's not something I really would like to share as it's disturbing and I really can't come out to say it. I'm sorry. My brother means more to me than sharing this secret to you." ALRIGHT. TIME'S ALMOST UP. TELL ME ABOUT YOUR DREAMS. QUICK! "My dreams? Well I'm only in my second year of high school and I have no idea what I'm doing really. I haven't quite set out on the path of life that I want to do with myself. I guess just going with the flow of things is easier said than done. And I could have sworn we already talked about what I was doing with school and that I had no job to begin with anyways." AND THAT'S A WRAP. IT WAS NICE GETTING TO KNOW YOU. "I guess that's me. Have fun with whatever you're going to be doing with this though." 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