Today is the 96th birthday of independent Finland. Some say that it is the remembrance day of independence as part of of the independence has been lost to the EU. I totally agree with this, that we are not our own country anymore in the sense of the full independence. We do not have our own money. We still use our own flag and hymn. The EU does have its own flag and hymn though, so it is only matter of time when we loose them too. I like to calm down and remember what my grandparents had to endure during the WW II. The ware was in Finland in two parts, which means that we had a period of peace in middle of the world war. One of my grandmothers was sent to Sweden as a war child, one of my grandfathers lied about his age and went to fight the ware (the second part as during the first part he and his family had to leave home). All Finnish people were relocated to Finnish soil during the WW II from the areas we lost in the first part. Some went back after we gain some ground in the second part but due to the ruling we had to give the lost areas back to Russia and they had to relocate again.
As mentioned before I received a calender from my friend with positive things in it. It is a Positiivarit christmas calender. So here is what I found under the hatch number six:
"When you have a friendly thought, express it. Give it a breath of life. Do it in practice."
(translated by me)
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