Money can't buy happiness

You can't go to a store like "One jar of happiness, please". But instead you can buy a chocolate bar and share it with your friend and make the both of you happy.

Happiness isn't expensive clothes and cars, alcohol or any illegal chemicals. Happiness is doing something good and making someone else happy, and yourself at the same time.

You don't need money to be happy but you can spend it on something that creates happiness. The millionaires aren't any happier than the normal workers with lower salaries. The rich don't even know what to do with their money and they're just hysterically using it to get rid of it. If I had a lot money, more than I'd need myself for studies and for making a few dreams come true, I wouldn't keep the rest of the money myself. Or at least now I think so. It's just morally so wrong to have too much of something while others are suffering. I would share the rest of the money with my family and friends and if there would still some extra left, I'd donate it to some good organization. Now I just need to hope that I'll win in lottery...

I don't really understand the people who have to shop all the time spending their money always on something new, specially if they don't necessarily need it. Like most girls love shopping new clothes and shoes and everything but I don't really see the point of it. Wasting money on something needless and filling the earth with new stuffs and rubbish. Besides it's wasting natural resources. At least I already have closets full of clothes and I feel guilty because I don't even use all of them. Luckily I don't have a desire to always get something new and gorgeous. Of course sometimes it's great to do some purchases if you find something lovely and can't resist the enticement.

At least to make me happy you don't need to buy anything: just say something nice. For example a couple of days ago at school one of my not so good friends just suddenly said "Sofia, I like your jacket" with a smile and that was enough to make my day. Besides I don't even like that jacket myself at all.. I want to start doing like her, saving others' days by giving a smile and saying at least one good word. For free.

The Magical 18??

So, I've officially been an adult for a couple of days now but where is the magical feeling of freedom and everything super awesome? I'm still waiting for that.. Like yea, it's great to be able to decide about my own stuff (in principle but in effect it's still my parents who say the last word as long as I live at home) and I can do things legally and travel and go to concerts and get a driving license and a proper job and everything cool but otherwise 18 is just like all the other ages. 

Most people love their birthdays I guess, you can be the king or the queen for one day and you'll get presenst and everybody's attention. But birthdays aren't really my thing. I've never enjoyed being the one everyone notices and I usually don't have much fun on my birthdays. You're supposed to have fun with your friends and party but I never do. I'm just usually spending a normal day at school and then go home alone and eat ice cream and go to sleep, that's my special day. I guess I'm a very boring person but I can't really have fun by my own and friends have their own stuffs when I would want to be with them. After a couple of weeks my friend's gonna have her birthday and a huge party and everyone's planning a surprise for her. Then I was feeling like what about me? It's my birthday first but they care only about her because she's gonna have the party where everyone is just gonna drink and smoke and be stupid. Maybe they don't want to celebrate my day because I don't throw enormous parties including lots of alcohol, good fun and loud music. I'm just a damn boring me.


But I don't complain this year. So much.. I didn't have fun with my friends and most of them didn't wish me or probably even think about me but I don't care. My real friends did. I'm so lucky I have the few awesome friends I've got. They're the most important thing in my life. And my family, I spent a nice night at home on my birthday, they had made everything cool, we went to sauna and watched a movie together. They really did think about me. And my other relatives like grandparents, uncles and aunts, they called me and texted me all day long starting from 5 am when I was still sleeping. They made me happy with their remembering and heartly wishes. And specially with the big gift they gave, or will give me: they will pay my driving school so I can get a driver's license. That's a really big gift as those schools are rather expensive here.. I'm so glad and thankful that I have some awazing and sincerely caring people around me. :)  <3

5 Seconds of Summer

I swear, this summer went much faster than any other summer in my life. School started again a week ago, the ten lovely weeks of freedom passed by in a blink of an eye. Honestly, every single year before this I have been excited to go to school and 10 weeks without schoolmates and teachers and timetables have been too much, but this time for my own surprise as well I wasn't eager to go to school. I just wanted to continue the holidays. That's probably because I had a good summer, better than for a long time. Though I didn't meet my old friends and do most of the things I had planned, I had a great time and lots of things happened. At first there was the World Cup, (I used to hate watching sports on TV but then something happened and I had to watch as many matches as possible, and my favourite Germany won!!!) then I was travelling around Finland with my family, my brother left for army, I spent 6 wonderful days in Berlin in Germnay (I will tell more about it later!) and then I was working in a museum for two weeks. I bet I had the best boss in the world, he was such a sweet old gentleman! I just wish I could live that summer again and enjoy every warm and light summer night and make even more amazing memories.. But I guess I'll have to wait until the next summer..

When I went to school last Monday morning, I didn't wait for anything else but seeing my friends again. I was thinking in my head if they would have changed or would they look different than before, were they as tanned as I am, what did they do during the summer, have I changed since we last met.. Then I saw everybody and everything was just like the same as 10 weeks ago. No one had grown up, we are just the same kids. We had a lot to talk about and many things to share. I was so glad at that moment.

But then the teachers started to speak. We have some new teachers and a new pricipal. I don't like him, I want our old one back.. Suddenly I started feeling like "BLAAAAAH can we just go back home?". Our school has changed and the new juniors are such little mice loosers. I can't believe I'm already a senior. Soon all that will be over and it's time to go furhter in life. This school year will be short, and busy with all final exams and applying for universities and everything. I'm really not waiting for the day I will have to say "goodbye" to my friends and teachers. They have become important to me, though sometimes I hate them more than anything. I will miss my school. It's the best school in the world.

This year I will wear a smile on my face, do everything I have wanted to do, be with my awesome frineds and leave the school pockets full of great memories. Later I would regret if I didn't make the best out the best time of my life, and that's high school. Hakuna Matata!