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We were all born to this world free from guilt and free from worries only to become adult and full of prestige and stress. Somewhere along the way we forgot what life was all about. Life should be easy with lots of happy moments. Why do we make it so hard for ourselves, I wonder. Wouldn´t it be possible for an adult to view the world with the innocent eyes of a child? It would make things a lot easier, wouldn´t it? To live life here and now and not always think about before and after. I´d love to be able to see the life that way. It´s like you spend all your adult life in hunt for that peace and you probably won´t find it until your´re lying there 98 years old on your bed only hours away from afterlife.

Sometimes it´s hard to appreciate life. It´s hard to find inner peace in the present and enjoy one´s life to the fullest. Most of us that live in the modern western societies seem to have problems and complaints about all kinds of things in our every day lifes. Put in perspective most of our problems are ridicoulously small. When you have your own home, your food on the table and you feel safe, then you don´t really have anything to worry about. It´s when these things are lost that we realise how good a life we really had. It might be someone close getting sick or dying, or oneself getting sick, or loosing one´s home and livelihood. 

I got baptized at the age of thirteen mainly cause of my parents and I had some friends doing it as well. I never really questioned it and I saw no reason why I shouldn´t. It was a natural thing to do and 90 percent of the kids in my class went through with it for some reason or another. I wouldn´t say that it gave me to much except from boring homework and gifts at the end of the cermony. Did it make me a better person? I don´t think so. At least not what I felt.. Well, it made my parents and grand parents happy and that´s not a bad thing, is it?