Josefin Olevik: Ola in « Love is Blind » makes me mad

There is a special kind of self -acceptance that is breathtaking and at the same time untouchable. In public, it is currently manifested by Ola in the reality series « Love is Blind » shown on Netflix.

Ola is a successful consultant with unclear abuse background that has taken time off from the work to focus on internal development. He likes to stand barefoot on cliffs in linen trousers.

He is open to everything! Whatever the universe lets get in his way, he mildly cuts his eyes and continues to smile (increasingly strained). He thinks norms are ridiculous, the soul is greater than that. At least his.

In the program he finds Milly which is fun, smart and selfish but which he dumped and hurt deeply this week.

When I was 19, I rented a room with a Spanish in Seville. At first she was lovely. Angels and inner harmony. Then she introduced « Extension of energies »

She had Short hair. Just that he couldn’t actually endure. Nor with her drinking soda! And then she wears on festive occasions, and likes burgers and french fries. It happens that she eats sweets.

The Going Just not when he checks in with himself on the rocks.

Ola arouses a fierce in me. When I was 19, I rented a room with a Spanish in Seville. At first she was lovely. Angels and inner harmony. Then she introduced « Extension of energies ». Every morning started with the fact that I heard how I slammed into kitchen cabinets, set tomato sauce on the wrong shelf, had unclear facial expressions that made her unsure.

New Age lingo has a tendency to highlight the believer as the mindset for acceptance while it sets dictator limits for reasonableness (short hair! wrong refrigerator shelf!). Unfortunately, it is unbearable. But not unique to Ola.

Sitting in a lotus position, crunching steam -cooked celery and defending their degrading malice with a need to « be true to oneself » becomes bizarre when exposed outside the saved group. And I think it is precisely the attitude that makes the world soul sad.

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