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>Lagom är bäst, meaning “enough is as good as a feast”. Not to be pedantic, it means "good enough is best"
by jonnismash 9y ago
>Lagom är bäst, meaning “enough is as good as a feast”.
Not to be pedantic, it means "good enough is best"
- mkempe 9y agoPedantic is "lagom" here. The closest approximations to "lagom" in English are "feels just right" or "contenting because it feels comfortable" with an implied caveat of "for me/us". It corresponds to a subjective, pleasant, centered experience in the sense that it applies when the experience would not feel as good in either of two departing directions, such as air or water getting too cold or too warm. I believe this feeling and corresponding concept are absorbed and developed at a very early age, because we use the word a lot in Sweden; but to explain it to an adult who never knew it with a dictionary definition does not impart the sense-perceptions and particular feeling that were crucially experienced together, in blissful instants. And later in life that "lagom" sense will remain connected to a joyful core going all the way back to childhood bliss.