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."