FACT FILE~
SADNESS AND HAPPINESS
Happiness is a tricky thing. There are thousands of different things who make
people happy. Many search for success, money and fame. Yet it seems that the
things that make us truly happy are family, friends and the like. Sometimes
people chase their whole life after material riches, convinced it will make them
happy. Even though money never guarantees happiness, it will help out with
some earthly problems. In many cultures all over the world, being rich is an easy
ticket to the higher levels of society. Success and wealth are commonly valued
higher then spiritual harmony and other forms of mental happiness in the
majority of cultures. Despise the growing influence cultures have on each other,
some people chose another path, a path to completeness as a human.
The counter force of happiness is sadness, something every has experienced at
least a little. Now, sadness is very relative, depending on what the person has
experienced earlier. There is a quote just about this, it's a young boy explaining
how he feels to a friend after breaking up with his girlfriend:
"I'm sad, but at the same time I'm really happy something can make me feel this
sad, it's like it makes me feel alive, it makes me feel human. And the only way I
could feel this sad now is if I felt something really good before. So I have to take
the bad with the good, so I guess what I'm feeling is like a beautiful sadness.”
This quote made me realise that it's pointless to chase a perfect life, as it will
never happen. We need to take the sad with the happy, as it makes us human.
What we can do though, is to chase happiness, true happiness, not what others
tell you is happiness. Only you know what makes you happy. - Gösta Larsson
The Nobelfesten
Here in my school known as
Nobelfesten. Every eight grade
participate in this party in the
autumn, where we kind of
celebrate Alfred Nobel and the
Nobel prize with a fairly large
party and our own Nobel prize in
mathematics and literature. (Have
a look at the details of the fest
ahead.)
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1) Sweden is one of
the homelands of the
Germanic ethnicity
and culture. The
Goths, the Suevirs and
the Norses (Vikings)
all trace their origin
back to Sweden (as
well as Norway and
Denmark for the
latter).
2) As of late 2012,
Sweden had obtained
30 Nobel prizes,
including 5 Peace
prizes. This is the 5th
highest number of
laureates in the world.
(Facts on Sweden)