About Me — This Is Sophie Today

So, this is it! Time to tell the world a little bit about me…

Who am I?

I´m Sophie — I suppose that was clear from the title.

And this is who I am… Today. Why the emphasis on who I am today, and perhaps, not tomorrow or not yesterday?

That´s because I like to get deeply philosophical without any real reason, because even the simple question of “Hey, who are you?” can send me down a deep dark spiral of contemplating the meaning of life. Once, at a team meeting right after a cyclone had hit the area, someone asked why a particular person wasn´t at the team meeting. Someone else replied, “Well, do they have any power?”. To which I went into a full-blown existential crisis “Do any of us really have any power in the world of today?”. Turns out we were talking about whether this person had electricity and whether they were affected by the cyclone.

Lesson learned. Don´t assume philosophical intent from everyone else around you.

But who am I today? Today, I´m Sophie, I live in New Zealand but I´m not originally from here. I´m here with my husband and our parrot Croky.

This is Croky, he´s the best parrot ever

We live life in an off-grid set-up consisting of a tiny house and a shipping container. It´s great, and it´s the first time ever in my life that I feel I´ve truly found peace. Some…