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Nah, must be the nicksen
Seems like niksen is basically assuming all the other things are already in place. Gotta have all that other stuff before you can even think about having the time to "do nothing."
Edit: Either that or we're in yet another "it must be all the olive oil!" shams.
And much much Better urban planning that's focused on people not on cars
TIL another country has a name for how I like to live.
this isnt even pretending to be news, this is an opinion piece. Come the fuck on
Is there a !worldopinion?
Niksen is the Dutch word for “doing nothing” (see idleness [german: Müßiggang]) and has been increasingly used since 2019 as a buzzword for a promoted relaxed lifestyle. The Niksen is comparable to the Dolcefarniente (Italy), kalsarikännit (Finland), Lagom (Sweden) and hygge (Denmark).
"Lagom" means "just enough", and has more to do with not taking more than you need, and I believe it being strongly correlated with the cultural "jante lagen" (="thou shall live and act as a humble human."). Niksen and lagom doesn't seem to have any similarities beyond that.
Kalsarikännit is getting drunk alone at home.
A sign of alcoholism, so we Finns use humour to cope with it and talk about it jokingly. Like with suicide.
Equating that to hygge and lagom is just to simplify all of them to the point of almost complete reinterpretation.
However I don't disagree with what you're trying to convey, and those concepts may be tangentially related to a degree, but...
Who the hell has time for niksen these days...
I am jealous of your "we". I'm half Greek and half danish and can't say we to any of them.
Where’s hygge from because that shits also fire.
Scandinavia