by Smiley Society
Mila Kunis and husband Ashton Kutcher have raised more than $20 million for Ukraine in 1 week
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People Are Booking So Many Airbnbs in Ukraine–They Raise $2M for Hosts in Need, and Never Even Check-in
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Boy who kept getting in trouble for doodling in class signs a deal with Nike
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Polish Parents Leave Baby Strollers For Arriving Ukrainian Refugees
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Canadian Millionaire Donates His Life Savings to Plant 100,000 Daffodils – And They’ve Just Begun to Bloom
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Who doesn’t love getting a kiss on a cheek? 🥰
We should all care for and love each other ❤
In times like those there’s always one big advantage. People uniting ❤. Same vibe was when pandemic started.
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When I went shopping on Wednesday to create a package for people in need in Ukraine I felt this amazing vibe on streets. 70% of the people I was walking by were talking about Ukraine and planning how to help 🙏. When I was in a pharmacy buying diapers, cosmetics and other things for people in need I saw couple more people in the store with baskets full of diapers, 20-30 energy bars, canned food, medicine and I could tell that they’re also shopping for those in need ❤.
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Later when I went to a store with electronics where I wanted to buy a powerbank for refugees I saw that there’s hardly any powerbank left on a shelf and a salesman confirmed that plenty people came to buy one for people in Ukraine.
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People are united as never. I’ve never experienced such love and will to help. Even our government started acting…normal 😜
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I feel so sorry for Ukrainians, can’t imagine what they’re going through 💔
So I’m trying to help as much as possible. And so are millions, dozens of millions other people ❤.
I believe that it will soon be over, that Ukraine will survive and be even stronger 💪 and that we’ll have amazing friendship between Poland and Ukraine lasting forever ❤.
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Слава Україні!!! 💙💛🇺🇦
🤗 POSITIVE NEWS 🤗
Billionaire Mark Cuban’s New Drug Company is Producing Low-Cost Generic Drugs Cutting 90% of the Markup
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Man leaves €2m to French village that hid his family from Nazis
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Ikea bought 11,000 acres of forest in Georgia to protect it from development
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Endangered Indian rhinoceros baby is born in zoo in Poland
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Snowy Owl Spotted In New York’s Central Park For The First Time In Over A Century
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Today is Independence Day in Poland. 🇵🇱 We gained (or actually re-gained) independence exactly 101 years ago! 🤗
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What is independence to you? Not only as a country but as a person?
For me it is freedom to do whatever I want, to say what I think, to act as I feel, to choose what my heart tells me to. It is simply the freedom to build my life as I want it. 😊
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I am so happy and so grateful 🙏to live in such times (even though political situation is getting worse and worse in Poland now again) and to be able to just be me, not dependent on anyone else.
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I can’t imagine living in times when women didn’t have their right to vote or to work even 🤯. I can’t imagine being forced to marry someone that somebody chose for me, I can’t imagine not being able to dress how I like or to attend some public events next to men. Yet some women still don’t have that. 😞 Yet there are still countries that don’t have their independence. There are still people who don’t have their freedom. And I feel so sorry for them. 😢
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So if you’re reading it, be grateful for the freedom you have. Be grateful for the times and country you live in. Not all are so lucky.
I do hope it will change one day though. 🙏
What is freedom to you?
Please read till the end.
Yesterday was 30th anniversary of 1st free election in Poland after WWII. Anniversary of that historic day that changed everything. Events that actually started whole movement in Europe (Czech Republic and Germany were next).
June 4th 1989 was when Communism ended in Poland. It was the day when we gained freedom again.
I was standing at a concert held due to this anniversary yesterday (check on my stories) and heard elders talking about that day. We were shown news and documentaries of what 80s looked like in Poland. It was times of Martial Law here in 1981-1983. There were plenty strikes then (it all actually started in my city Gdańsk), people were fighting for freedom. My parents told me many times how awful those times were. How they couldn’t go and buy anything they wanted in a store (there was food rationing, every family could buy certain amount of bread, potatoes, toilet paper, soap etc. per month), how they couldn’t leave house and walk on the streets in the evenings, how they couldn’t talk openly about politics or even use word „freedom”!, how media couldn’t write the truth but only what the government told them to print/say on the news…
I was born 2 years after we gained freedom again and those horrible times ended. My brothers were 6-7 years old then though. They had few toys, hardly had any clothes. Can you imagine that?
So I was standing at this concert yesterday and was thinking how lucky I am to live now, in those better times. Can you imagine not being able to say what you think? To be forced to keep spreading lies? To be punished for saying what you feel? To not be FREE?
What is freedom to you? Because being able to say what we want, to do what we want, to buy what we want is freedom to me. And all those people, including my parents, my aunts, uncles and young brothers didn’t have that then.
I am so grateful that I am able to do all those things nowadays. I am so grateful to be able to travel (Polish people couldn’t go abroad during Martian Law!). I am so grateful for FREEDOM.
Are you?
You should.
Sadly not all people around the world have that.
How to be HAPPY 