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Eye of the Beholder (Icelandic Culture)

from Year 3 by Unto The Wolves

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Although beautiful, Iceland is not an easy place to live. When you live in a country which moves alarmingly under your feet every five years or so with an earthquake or a volcanic eruption, you face, like the saga heroes of old, a choice of two courses of action, neither of them good: Either to flee the country and all its hazards or to stay and brave them out. For more than 1100 years the people of Iceland have chosen to stay and brave them out. (Television presenter Magnús Magnússon, Reykjavík, September 2001)
Iceland was the last country to be settled in Europe when emigrants from Scandinavia and the British Isles first came to live on the island in the ninth and tenth centuries. It remains the most sparsely populated country in the continent with less than three inhabitants per square kilometer. Shaped by the unrelenting forces of nature, Iceland’s harsh natural environment has bred a resilient nation that has learned to exist under extreme conditions, and harness the natural resources they create for its own prosperity.
Now with this in mind, the people of Iceland's point of view was it's better to brave the life here and enjoy its beauty rather than flee and deal with the harsh life beyond. This point of view has paid off in the fact that today, Iceland is a progressive, modern society that continuously ranks at the top of measurements for quality of life, such as the United Nations Human Development Index. Its economy is one of the most productive economies in the world, per-capita, and it is annually considered to be one of the greenest countries on the planet, due in large parts to its vast renewable energy resources.
The point of view to stay is what spoke to me here. I then realized a persons point of view is largely affected by who they are personally. This leads to one specific line in the song that leads the rest of the lyrics. "Everyone, to look at a picture will see a kind of reflection." This idea is riveting me because it means so much in so few words. This idea is what the song is about.

lyrics

A Landscape designed in such a way,
It's as if by nature there's no mistake,
I can not tell you how to see beyond the sight
(There are no words that will bare light)

On the surface
There is an honest truth
Yet beneath There are fragments
Of what is inside you

In The Eye of the Beholder
A Point of view born from within
Everyone to look at a picture
Will see a kind of reflection

In The Eye of the Beholder
This Life is what you decide
As you decipher the difference Between
A label and a lie
To live and to Die

Fables written bare someone else's view
Stories drawn from realities beyond you
I can not tell you how to see beyond the sight
(There are no words that will bare light)

On the surface
There is an honest truth
Yet beneath There are fragments
Of what is inside you
In the young
Eyes of innocence
And the Old
Draw from experience

In The Eye of the Beholder
A Point of view born from within
Everyone to look at a picture
Will see a kind of reflection

In The Eye of the Beholder
This Life is what you decide
As you decipher the difference Between
A label and a lie
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from Year 3, released August 21, 2020

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