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        Yesterday I read an article about how the amount of people having depression has increased over the course of 30 years. It made me think of how people with depression could handle it back then, when the social awerness about this disease was at a very low level. These days you can easly get help and you won't be excluded from the society if you claim that you have depression, but back then people weren't aware of this problem and most of times considered persons with some depressive tendencies as weirdos, losers or even sluggards. Also getting help wasn't very easy if it even was possible and usually (at least in Poland) the methods of curing it would propably be pretty rough with no understanding and tolerance at all. I am wondering if there were more suicides because of that, or maybe there was actually more of examples in which somebody has just self-healed, because they kind of had no other choice.

   My brother started the first grade of elementary school this year. Today, he asked me to help him with a school task. He had to learn the entire Polish national anthem by heart, because he's got an oath ceremony next week. When I was helping him to repeat I started thinking, is the national anthem so important, that a 6 six years old child has to know it by heart? He can't have a sheet with him on the ceremony and he has to sing all 4 verses. Isn't this a little bit too much for a child, who can't yet read too well? Shouldn't he be spending this time on something more developmental? He doesn't know basics of maths yet, he can't write too good, but at least he knows the whole national anthem by heart. I may sound like I'm over-exaggerating and it's such a difficult thing for a child to learn, which isn't true, in fact it didn't take my brother that long to memorize it. But I still think it is a little bit too much, I mean what would be a pr...

    When the summertime ended I was not happy about coming back to school. I thought that it will be the same nightmare, the last year was for me. But after a week of school, I am surprised of how good I feel. In the second grade of high school you lose a lot of subjects completely in order to have more hours of the subjects, that you chose to expand. It means, that most of my classes are the ones I actually like! I even enjoy doing my homework now, because it's pretty much only maths and physics, sometimes English. Thanks to all that, I feel genuinely more motivated to study and to go to school frequently. Hence, I think that maybe it would be better if students were having these profiled classes even earlier in their "students' careers", but I don't know, maybe it's just good for me.

    I think the most important thing this movie teaches us is, that human's need to be accepted is very strong. Looking at Larry, we can easly tell that he really needed to participate in that race of richness. Unfortunately he couldn't keep up, which resulted in his suicide. Also, Steve is a good example of that need of acceptance. It looks like he was a very lonely guy and the only reason he decide to take this job was, so he could feel like he has a family. He quickly realised that pretending is not good for him and that what he was doing had bad consequences.

    Honestly it depends on what you define as beautiful. There can be many other beautiful things about an art piece than the actual art piece itself. The history behind it, what influenced the artist to make it and what did he/she try to tell by it are just a few examples. Personally I like when a piece of art is really trying to trigger some strong emotions and makes me have a lot of thoughts in my head.    To sum up, art doesn't have to be beautiful in an obvious way, but there is a bigger chance people will like it, when there is something beautiful about it.

    To be honest, I was thinking a lot about going vegan, but I haven't decided yet if want to do it or not. My parents are vegetarian, so I do have a bit of knowledge of how it is to not eat meat. It isn't that bad as some people think it is, vegetarians/vegans still have a lot of options in what to eat and their meals can oftenly be very good. The amount of vegan/vegetarian friendly restaurants is also growing. There are a lot of good consequences of going vegan and it is also very healthy, but only if your diet is well balanced. But for me it would be quite a challange to go vegan, since my diet consists of a lot of meat; hardly often I have a day without eating meat and really, I just like the taste of it. If I was trying to do that, I would definitely start from going vegetarian in the first place. But to do so I would need a lot of motivation and dedication.  In the near future I am not planning on going vegan/vegetarian, but maybe some day I will try.

    Dear Madam,     I am writing in response to your advertisment on the olx.com website. I would be grateful if you would consider my application for the vacancy as a shop assistant.     I am seventeen-year-old-high school student and I am interested in this position. This would be a perfect opportunity for me to gain some working experience and also have some time to decide in which side I want to push my career to, while I will not be wasting time at home, but actually earn income.     Although I have no formal work experience, I'm a quick learner, so I will not have problems with a cash register as an example. I would describe myself as quiet, but polite and always helpful. I don't have problems with contacts with people at the base level, so I think this job really suits me.     If you wish me to attend an interview, I am available at any time. Thank you for considering my application. I look forward t...