Some appreciation, please?

I guess you don't even understand how well your things are if you're able to read this. There are like 3 billion people in the world who can't read at all.

If you have some extra money in your bank account and in your wallet you're richer than 92 % of the people on the globe.

If you don't need to suffer from hunger and you have a home, with a roof over your head and where to sleep, you're among the wealthiest people in the world.

If you aren't seriously ill, you are healthier than all the people who won't be here next week.

If you've been so blessed that you have been able to go to school and get education, you have gotten a huge privilege and an opportunity others are only dreaming of.


Despite this and hundreds of other things I hear people here complaning about everything everyday. People hate the parents who are giving their everything to their children and sacrificing more things than we can believe to give their kids all the best in their lives. People hate their families that love them and take care of them. Students hate the free schools and education that give them a future. Kids hate the food they get for free that gives them energy, makes them grow up and keeps them healthy. People hate rules that keep us safe and try to make people equal. People hate the world they have created by their own hands.

Why can't we enjoy the things we have and be happy with them? Why do we need more and better than now? I wish I could go to Africa to some not so rich country to see what life there is like and learn from the people there how to appreciate what I've got. Because all you've got is all you need. Well not always though. In some poor countries in the Africa they've got nothing but they've got all. They don't complain like western people who have more than enough of everything. You won't see a sad person there, there is a smile on everybody's face, they get over all the sadness and problmes together and look ahead to the future. Like in Finland people are just depressed and unhappy, though it's one of the best countries to live in! I heard that in Burkina Faso it costs about 150 € a year in school for one student, and that is so expensive for them that most people can't afford it. Guess what the costs are for one student in one year here in Finland? About 6 000 €, and that all is completely free for us students. There's a difference.

Sometimes it would be good for us to think about all the goods we've got and think what it would be like if we suddenly didn't have the same things. How would our lives change?

"When you've got a lot, you can lose a lot."

Can you hear the cry

People are feeling bad, the world is ill, but does anyone notice it or care about it? The world's a mess nowadays, it's not so good to live in it. Other people and the pressure that the society is placing on us kills us from inside, we're becoming cold and emotionless, we're like robots living like we're ordered to.

We should be this and that and do so and so, just carry out all the time. That way at some point we're losing everything about humanity and forgetting the most important thing everything originally is about - love.

If you stopped staring at your own navel and looked what is around you, you would notice that everything is not fine. Things might have a cool cover but from inside they're completely empty.

A pretty girl is afraid to eat, a bad boy calms down after beating someone down, someone cuts her wrists to escape from the pain inside, a guy who managed to get a successful career abuses drugs, a single mother drowns her sorrow and worries to alcohol. It's easy to keep the pain inside and hide the scars from others' eyes, but from yourself you can't run away. Usually people are blind and it's furstrating how you try and try to tell them you're not quite fine but they just don't see. Or then people are so hypocritical that they don't care about others if they're not doing something for them, like they don't want to help if they don't get some pay for it.
Even the quietest ones cry for help on their own way. Are people around able to hear it?

When have you last time asked someone "how are you?" and actually listened to the answer? Next time listen more carefully. People just need to take care of each other, no one is supposed to survive from life and its weight alone. But it's sad how so many people still are fighting against the world on their own.

If you can hear my cry under all the noise, it's the last message from me to you begging for your attention. Will you stay to give your helping hand or leave me choking?

Endlessly changing

Everyone changes when time passes. It's pointless to say someone I'll never change for it's not true. We change all the time, purposely or without noticing. I think life's not about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself a person you want to be. How could we even find something that is in an endless circle of change? In the end you're the only person you have to spend the rest of your life with so you have to deal with yourself and be a person with whom you can live.

People change the most when they get hurt. They go trough something hard and learn to see the world and people in a new way. That's the time when they learn about themselves too and might find completely new sides of themselves they didn't know that exist.

Sometimes it's scary actually how much, fast and suddenly things can change. It feels like just yesterday everything was completely different. The world's not the same anymore, you're not the same anymore. People around you don't even notice that anything has changed or then they see it and get overworried. It feels bad when something inside you has changed, in a good way, that things seem to make sense now, but your friends or family don't like the way you have changed and can't accept it. Or if something goes in a bad way and nobody cares and is there to help you. It's difficult to tell about worries or for example if you think you're depressed and if nobody notices it and gives you their helping hand you might feel and be very alone with your trouble and heavy heart. That's when you finally get to know who your real friends are who always stand by you till the end, no matter what. Good friends understand you, or try at least and most importantly don't ever judge you or your thoughts and doings without a very heavy reason. It feels awful when someone very close to you turns to something he or she said they would never be. But there's a reason for everything, people should be more understanding and empathic before going away from the one who changed. If someone changes in a radical way, it's definitely the time he or she most needs friends and support, not fakers who leave them alone with all the weight on their shoulders.

I changed a lot in a short time. I don't actually know why. Some bad things happened and maybe they opened my eyes, it's not such a beautiful world we're living in. People are bad, though some are real sweethearts and always want everything good for others. But most people are selfish and greedy, they don't have any respect towards anything.

Maybe I'm not as nice as before, but it's because I don't want to be walked over or get used. I don't trust everyone because behind the fake smile can hide a real bitch who really doesn't give a shit about others. Perhaps I distance myself from people but only because I'm afraid that they will leave me alone when I most need them. But I still believe there's something good in everyone, there still are good people. But it feels difficult to find them and separate from all the trash.

I have changed, but I'm always being myself. I'm not showing a fake face to anyone. I don't give a damn about the people who can't accept what I am, I won't try to please everyone, I will try to please myself and be confident and gorgeous myself. Because that's all that matters in the end. The real people will always stay by your side, the others slightly disappear. But that is only life, though it sucks sometimes.