Anna Tillas

Concerned citizen, Job-seeker, Parent, Writer/Editor

I love words to bits, and I’m educated in user-centered communication and creative writing. One of my proudest moments as a wordsmith was when I successfully (and painstakingly) translated four of Shakespeare’s sonnets into the made-up language Transpiranto. My dayjob is in communication and I dream of getting to try my hand at transcreation.

Dancing. I dance just about any partner dance I can get my hands on here in Umeå. There is a dance for every mood, for every season, for every person. It's so fascinating to see people (including myself) who are a bit clumsy and sort of fuzzy around the edges "in real life" transform into creatures with total awareness, perfect control, relaxed smiles. The presence you get to feel in dancing is a wonderful thing. You connect to someone, feel their musicality mix with yours, and you create something together that is only for that moment. And then there is the ultra-presence, the state in which the lines between me and the room and the music and the leader are blurred out, blurred away, and I am suddenly everything. Omnipresent. Like becoming a god for a while. And you wonder why I can't stop talking about dancing? Try it yourself, but be warned: it's highly addictive.

We should make "love" an important part of sex-ed. People could benefit so much from knowing more about love. I hear things like these way too often: "I'm falling for someone else, so I guess I wasn't in love with my partner after all." "My partner doesn't want to have sex as much anymore, what can I do to make them love me again?" "We've been dating for six months now and the spark is gone. Guess it wasn't right after all." If people knew more about love, they would know that it's perfectly possible to love more than one person at a time (not always easy, not always accepted, but very possible). If people knew more about love, they would know that both feelings and sex drive fluctuates in a relationship. It's normal and doesn't have to mean anything at all. If people knew more about love, they would know that the spark will go away after around six to eighteen months, no matter who you're with. If the spark is gone it doesn't necessarily mean that love is gone too - you've just entered another phase. I think a lot of pain and shame could be avoided if people just knew more about love.

content marketing, text analysis, text coaching, translation, user-centered communication, writing