ON AN ENDLESS ADVENTURE FINDING MYSELF - what is the meaning of my life?

Who are you? What is your meaning in this universe?  Where do you belong?

Source:
https://uglyducklingsinc.wordpress.com/2014/03/09/change-it/

This subject is really relevant for me at the moment. I haven´t had courage to be myself. It has taken many years for me to accept myself as the person I am. Now I think I do know who I really am, but still I find new things in myself almost every day.

But how can you find yourself? I think that the easiest way is to do what you really love. My thing is music, and being with children and youths. What is yours?

You should also spend time with those who accept you as you are. It's only a waste of time if you are with someone who doesn't actually accept you and doesn't respect your opinions. They aren´t real friends.

"Have courage and be kind."

- Cinderella

Don´t care about what other people think of you. I know it´s easier to say than to do. But it´s a thing that helps. Practising will be worth it. I promise you.

Few days ago I had to do something what needed courage. Alot of courage. I had to tell our teacher, that some of my classmates were taking drugs. I didn´t know much, I just knew that they were smoking weed. One of they were my friend. Now I´m not the most well-liked person in the class. I never was, but now they really don´t like me. I have only a few friends, but I really don´t care. I´m used to it. And we are studying to be a youth and leisure activities instructors. I did the right thing.

That´s a really good example of caring what other people think. I wasn´t thinking that "if everybody hates me." It was a conscious risk I had to take. 

We all have things that make each of us special. Find your own thing, and be proud of it.

Have a nice weekend everyone!

>JENNA

P.S. I´m sorry again about this long break. Now I won´t even promise anything, because I have so many things going on in my life. I have to fix my life before I can truly focus on my blog. I´ll post sometimes when I´ve energy and inspiration. 

DREAMS CAN COME TRUE - but when?

"I´ll always be wearing

my invisible crown.

Just like Cinderella did

before her dreams came true."

A bit Disney themed post this time. Today´s subject is dreaming. I have dreamed my whole life. My dreams have changed maaany times, and some of them has come true. I´ve always thought that dreaming is important. One of my biggest dreams was to get in my present school. Youth and leisure instructor is my thing. Other things I´ve dreamed about are seeing my little sister again (read my last week´s post, if you want to know more), and to be our congregation´s volunteer. I´v also dreamed about visiting in Disneyland Paris and Harry Potter Studiotour London. Almost all of these has come true. Only meeting my sister is still under way.

"I remember Daddy told me
Fairy tales can come true
You gotta make 'em happen
It all depends on you

So I work real hard each and every day

Now things for sure are going my way

Just doing what I do

Look out Boys I'm coming through"

That´s one part of a song, Almost there, from Princess and the Frog. Yes, I think that´s true. You have to work to reach your goals. But you have to also get rest. In the movie Princess and the frog, Tiana doesn´t rest. She only does work, work and work. First at night and right after working whole night she goes to another place. Tiana didn´t have time for friends or her mother, because she wanted her own restaurant so badly. I´ll always remember one good thing that Tiana´s mother says in the movie. "Your daddy may not have gotten the place he always wanted, but he had something better. He had love!" Tiana´s father´s biggest dream was to get his own restaurant, but he died before that. But he didn´t need a restaurant, because he had loving family. That was all he needed.

Fairytales can come true with hard work. But those can also come true if you have courage to pursue them. And you have to remember that even if you want something, you have to also hold on what you already have. Friends, family... You can reach your goal, but remember to share it with your love ones.

Our dreams can come true, when we are ready for it. 

Dreaming is never bad. Imagination can take you away from this world. But if you lose realism, it´s not good. Keep on dreaming and try to set yourself realistic goals. That´s how you can go far. 

>JENNA

Source:
https://www.askideas.com/all-our-dreams-can-come-true-if-we-have-the-courage-to-pursue-them/

Source:
http://cmcui.deviantart.com/art/A-Dream-is-a-wish-your-heart-makes-549941542

Source:
https://fi.pinterest.com/darlenedchant/dream-quotes/

GOSPEL - my way to faith

Maata Näkyvissä -festival

Have you ever heard about Maata Näkyvissä -festival? It´s the Nordic countries biggest gospel festival and it´s in Finland. This year it was last week´s weekend. I think you have heard about some bands that have been performing there. For example LZ7, Twelve24 or Hawk Nelson. Maybe you haven´t but I suggest them for you.

Gospel music has changed me really much. It has brought me to faith and it thought me to accept myself. I didn´t want to accept I´m believing in God, before I found gospel. And after that it took a little time. Gospel music taught me that it´s okay to believe and if my friends don´t allow me as I am, they aren´t real friends. 

I found gospel music after my confirmation camp, when I started to be more involved in congregation´s events. Before that I didn´t want to talk anybody abouth my faith. My friends didn´t believe, so I thought that it´s not okay. I was bullied in primary school, not because if believing but for another reason I don´t actually know. I didn´t want to take a chance to be bullied again. When I started to be in events, I started to listen to gospel. And then I started to accept myself. But still I didn´t want to admit my faith. Half year later, when I talked about believing with some of my friends, I decided I can´t hide it anymore. I´m ready. Then I told them. I think some of my friends still don´t know about this fact, but I don´t care if they find out. I´ve decided to be myself. 

Few months ago I found my favorite gospel band. It´s a Finnish band called Herz. Herz´s songs are in Finnish. They have taught me so much. If someone´s songs has changed my train of mind, it´s them. At Maata Näkyvissä -festival I finally met them. I was so excited. It was amazing. After meeting them I was so happy. One of my friends almost got fed up with me and my other friend, because we only jumped all the time (not really, he was only joking). The happiest part of this is that we didn´t only met them at their meet&greet. We saw them also few times after that and went to talk to them. My dream came true. They also remembered us after first time. 

After festival when we were going home, we read an article about the singer of Herz. It made me value her so much more. Then I also sent messages for the singer and the basist, ´cause they were the guys we talked with. We thanked them about weekend and about that they have been in so big part in my life. They answered and I felt so happy. They also liked my Instagram-pictures and I almost started to cry of happiness when I saw it.

Yeah, I´m kinda fan girl. Embarrassing... Not really, not shamed of it! So much respect for Herz!!

After Herz I found KLS. and Hawk Nelson. If you don´t understand Finnish, you should listen to Hawk. It´s also an amazing band! I love their song that´s called Drops in the Ocean. 

I listen also Hillsong and many other bands, but because Herz has been the most important, I decided to write only about it. If I wrote about every gospel bands, this post would be reeeeeally long. It´s already, so maybe I don´t make it any longer...

I add some hyperlinks so you can go listen to some of my favorite bands.

Have a nice week everyone!
>JENNA

Me and my friend with Herz.

Listen to Herz here.

Listen to Hawk Nelson here.

Listen to LZ7 here.

Listen to Twelve24 here.

Listen to KLS here. 

HAVE FAITH IN OTHERS - who am I?

Hello and welcome to my new lifestyle blog!

I´m a fifteen-years-old girl from Southern Finland. I study in youth and leisure activities instructor education. I´m social and I love to help the others. I love to do a lot of charity work. Always when I find out of some project, I try to join and do my best to help the disadvantaged. My mom has always motivated me to help the others if someone needs help. She is definitely the most important person for me in this Universe and I´m so thankful of all those thing she has taught me.

I´m sorry if I can´t speak English so well or if I write something wrong, but I´ll try my best!

Things I´m going to tell in blog are surrounded on faith, helping others, music and everything I think that are important for me. Everything that are somehow connected on my own life.

Yes, you read right. On faith. I am a Christian. And I do believe. I´m the only one in my family who does, but I don´t think that´s bad. I think I am going to write a lot about gospel music, ´cause it has changed me so much as a human.

Disney is also a thing that has changed my train of thought and I´ll write about it too. I´m actually a Disney-fan, so you´re probably going to read a lot of that, but I try to keep it as down as everything else.

Next post is hopefully coming next week, see you then!

>JENNA

Yap, that´s me :)