Another Quiet Sunday...

...got me reading and thinking again. First of all about the size. Yes, the size of Estonia.

I remember walking down in the streets of Chennai and to my mind posting a really important question to a stranger there: "Do you know where Estonia is?" and then just realizing how ridiculous it was. Does it really matter in a context where even time has a different meaning...

But then again, sometimes some things matter.

The Swedes compared Estonia with their e-bay kind of web-shop called Blocket and stated that "The total value of goods advertised on Blocket represents around 6 percent of Sweden's GDP in 2008, and is greater than the 2007 GDPs of both Iceland and Estonia."

So now, bearing this in mind and analyzing the riots that were down in Baltic's (and now I'm thinking like a swede), it really doesn't matter exactly where they were. Unless, unless, we work on it and use it in our advantage. Make us stick out.

I liked pretty much liked what Tõnu Õnnepalu said in Sirp a couple a weeks ago: "Meist ei olene midagi ja sellepärast olenebki kõik ainult meist endist: meie ükskõik millistele „liitlastele” on meie tähendus lõppude lõpuks ikkagi sama – väga lähedal nullile. Meie enda jaoks – lähedal lõpmatusele."

We are our greatest enemy and our best ally. We can pretty much gain the world (sort of) if we are just clever enough... Think about it, we should actually position ourselves deliberately differently, maybe even contradict ourselves to "others" - gain another bit of competitive advantage...