Veckrat se sprasujemo, v cem je smisel zivljenja. Nihce pravzaprav natancno ne ve, ker ima vsak clovek svoj smisel, vendar nas v zivljenju zenejo stvari, ki jih cenimo in nam veliko pomenijo. 

 Kaj vse lahko naredi droben nasmesek prijatelju, znancu ali pa kar samemu sebi! Ko smo srecni, je vse lepo, radi se smejemo, ker nas to razveseljuje, celo v slabih stvareh ali ljudeh najdemo dobre lastnosti, prijazni smo do svojih bliznjih, veseli smo, ce jih razveselimo s kaksno malenkostjo. Neverjetno, kaj naredi sreca! Na zalost jo preveckrat jemljemo kot samoumevno. Ne mores biti srecen, ce nisi svoboden ali ce nisi zdrav, mogoce celo nimas dovolj hrane ali prenocisca. Veckrat razmisljam, kako bi mi bilo, ce ne bi bila svobodna, ce bi bila omejena v dolocenem prostoru, kjer se ne bi mogla svobodno izrazati in svobodno razmisljati. Mislim, da bi nekaj v meni umrlo, zatrlo bi moj duh. Zato tako zelo cenim svobodo. 

 Kaj pa, ko si zaljubljen? Takrat si se posebno srecen. Vendar biti zaljubljen ni vse. Pomembno je imeti nekoga rad. Vsi dobro vemo, da je lepo biti ljubljen, zato ljubezen tudi vracamo. Najlepse v ljubezni pa je to, ceprav nekaj dajemo, s tem nic ne izgubimo in mi sami nimamo nic manj, le vec ljubezni. Tudi ljubezen vzamemo vcasih prevec samoumevno. Samoumevno se nam zdi, da nas imajo starsi radi, da imamo prijatelje, ki nas imajo radi, vendar ni zmeraj tako. Velikokrat je drugace, prav obratno. Zato se moram vcasih opomniti, da tudi ljubezni ne smem jemati kot nekaj, kar je, in moram vcasih tudi kaj podariti, ne le jemati. 

 Vse to cutimo, dozivljamo, ker smo ljudje. Pravzaprav se sploh tako ne razlikujemo od zivali. Na videz je razlika sicer velika, ampak tudi zivali, kakor mi, cutijo, celo ljubijo in sovrazijo. Tudi cenijo? Ne vem in ne bom se spuscala v to vprasanje, naj ostane skrivnost. Vem le, da sem srecna, ker sem clovek! 

Tanja Labus 

A lot of times we wonder about the meaning of life. No one knows it for sure, because each of us has his or her own reason, but there are things which push us ahead, things that we cherish and appreciate more then others. 

Let's just think about the meaning of a smile! What can it do to a friend or a colleague or to you yourself ? When we are happy everything seems to be fine, we like to laugh because laughing makes us even more happy. We are apt to find good sides in bad things and evil people, we are kind to people around us and we are happy if we make them happy, too. It's incredible what happiness brings to us! Unfortunately, a lot of times we take happiness for granted. You can't be happy if you are not free, healthy even though you may live even without shelter or enough food. Very often I find myself thinking about what it would be like if I lost my freedom, if I were limited in any way without the possibility of expressing myself freely. I think that something inside me would die and break my spirit. That's why I appreciate freedom so much. 

And what happens when you are in love? We are even more happy then. But to be in love is not all - more important is to love. It's nice to be loved and that's why we give our love back. The best thing in loving is not taking, but giving without losing anything. We take love for granted, too. We thing it to be only self-evident to be loved by our own parents or to have friends who love us. Lots of times it happens the other way round. So, sometimes I have to warn myself not to take love for something that just is - I have to give it away, too.

We feel all this is because we are humans. It is also true that in some ways we do not differ so much from animals which do feel, hate and love, as well as we do Do they praise and appreciate good things in life? Let this question be a secret! I will not ask about it any more. But, I am happy to be a man.

Tanja Labus 

Kaj je prijatelj? To je clovek, ob katerem si upas biti ti. Pravi prijatelj stopi na tvojo stran, kadar nimas prav. Kadar imas prav, se je skoraj vsakdo pripravljen postaviti zate. 

Prijateljev je veliko, a malo pravih. Tisti pravi so kakor luc sredi noci, te nasmejijo in spravijo v dobro voljo, kadar ti je najtezje. 

V osnovni soli sem imel veliko pravih prijateljev, sedaj je veliko tezje. Vsi bi ti bili radi prijatelji, ampak vsi mi smo ljudje in imamo svoje pogoje in svoje misljenje, kaksen mora biti pravi prijatelj. Jaz nimam rad zahrbtnih ljudi, ki govorijo eno, delajo pa drugo. Moji prijatelji mi povedo, kaj mislijo, jaz pa njim. Med sabo se nikoli ne prepiramo, tudi ce vemo, da drugi nima prav, in se mu ne smejemo, ker nihce izmed nas ni nezmotljiv. Moj ozji krog prijateljev je taksen: nihce ne pije alkohola, ne kadi, toda vsi smo nori na zogo. Igramo vse igre z zogo od nogometa, kosarke, rokometa, odbojke, namiznega tenisa…Se nekaj je, kar imamo radi, radi smo nekje sami, dalec od doma. Leto smo proti koncu pocitnic odsli v Ankaran za nekaj dni. Tam smo najeli bungalov, cez dan smo se kopali v morju, zvecer smo odsli ven in se zabavali ter dolgo in od srca smejali. 

 Najvec, kar lahko storim za prijatelja, je preprosto to, da sem mu prijatelj. Nimam bogastva, da bi mu ga dal. Ce ve, da sem srecen, ker ga imam rad, mu ne bo druge nagrade. Ali ni prav v tem bozanskost prijateljstva? 

Bostjan Blazincic   

What is a friend? It's a person who lets you be your self. A real friend always takes your side, even though you are wrong. If you are right, almost everyone is on your side. 

There are many friends, but only few of them are real ones. They are the light in the middle of the night, they make you feel good when you are down.

I had a lot of good friends when I was in my elementary school. Now, it is more difficult. We are all humans with our "ifs" and "whys" and our own criteria. I do not like people who talk behind my back, who say this and do that. My friends always tell me their opinions and I always tell them what I think. We never argue about anything, even though we are sure that one of us is wrong. We never laugh at each others mistakes, knowing that no one is flawless. My closest friends do not drink alcohol and they do not smoke, but we are all crazy about the ball. We play all kinds of games with balls: football, basketball, volleyball, handball and table tennis. There is something else. We all like to be somewhere alone, far from our homes. Last summer we went to the seaside, to Ankaran and hired a bungalow. We spent a lot of time swimming in the sea during the day and in the evening we went out, had fun and laughed a lot.

The best thing I can do for my friend is to be a real friend. I have no treasure to give it to him. If he knows that I am happy because I love him, he doesn't ask for any other reward. Isn't it where the divinity of friendship lies?

Bostjan Blazincic 

V mojem zivljenju je veliko vrednot, na prvem mestu pa je prijateljstvo. Kaj bi bilo, ce bi bili ljudje med seboj sovrazniki? 

Verjetno bi bilo se vec nasilja, kot ga je sedaj. Se vec ljudi bi nedolzno umiralo in trpelo. Kako pa bi bilo, ce bi bili ljudje med seboj prijatelji? Na svetu ne bi bilo vojn, nasilja, bila bi ljubezen, ki bi vladala na tem planetu. 

Ze kot osnovnosolka sem imela veliko prijateljev, s katerimi sem se dobro razumela. Skupaj smo se igrali, hodili na sprehode in v solo. Tako, kot vsi nagajivi osnovnosolci, pa smo tudi mi kdaj pa kdaj zabredli v tezave in takrat smo si pomagali, kolikor smo lahko. V sedmem ali osmem, pa se je nekaj zgodilo. Z mojo sosolko Manco sva postali neverjetno dobri prijateljici. Spoznali sva da imava veliko skupnega in cudili sva se, da sva komaj zdaj prisli do tega spoznanja. Z Manco zdaj hodiva v drugi letnik in sva se vedno najboljsi prijateljici. Ceprav sva se enkrat po nepotrebnem prepirali in se nisva pogovarjali cele dni, sva ugotovili, da ne moreva druga brez druge in postali sva spet prijateljici. 
Z njo mi ni nikoli dolgcas, saj ji nikoli ne zmanjka smisla za humor. Skupaj se učiva, gledava televizijo, poslušava radio, hodiva na sprehode, za vikend pa greva skupaj v diskoteko. Kadar katera česa ne razume v zvezi s šolo, se pokličeva in razčistiva nejasne stvari. Tudi najini mami sta postali prijateljici, čeprav na začetku ni bilo lahko. Zato sem res vesela, da sem spoznala tako dekle. 
Trdno upam, da bova z Manco ostali še mnogo let najboljši prijateljici. 

There are a lot values in my life, but most important to me is friendship. What would the world be like if we would all be enemies? 

Probably, there would be even more violence than now. Even more people would be innocently dying and suffering. But how would it be if we would all be friends to each other? There would be no more wars in the world or violence, there would be only love, which would rule this planet. 

Even as a little girl I had a lot of friends. We played together, went out for a walks, and walked to school together. But like all other kids, we often got into trouble, and we learned how to help each other any way we could. When I was 13 or 14 years old something happened. I became the best friends with my school- mate Manca. We realized that we have a lot in common and we were suprised that it took us so long to realize this. Now, I and Manca are going to 2. Class of high school, and we're still best friends. Even though we had a big fight once and we weren't speaking to each other for a week, we realized that we still can't go on without one another, and we became friends again. 
I'm never bored when I'm with her because she has a big sense of humor. We study together, watch television, listen to the radio, we're go for walks and on the weekend we go to disco together. Whenever one of us doesn't understand something about school, we call each other and we try to solve the problem. Our moms also have become good friends, although it didn't look that way at the beginning. That's why I am really glad that I have met a girl like her. I hope that we will be best friends for many years. 
 

 Ko sem bila majhna nisem znala ceniti stvari, ki sem jih imela. Starejsi ljudje pravijo, da nam je lepo in da smo lahko srecni, ker smo se mladi. 
 Sedaj, ko pa razmisljam drugace, kot sem prej, pa bi lahko rekla, da to drzi. Bolj cenim stvari in poskusam misliti na to, kar imam in ne nato, cesar nimam. Vcasih pa se znajdem tudi v takih trenutkih, vendar imam zelo dobro mamo, me potolazi in kmalu mi je lazje pri srcu. Iz svojih izkusenj se veliko naucis. Naucila sem se ceniti stvari, in ljudi sprejemati taksne, kakrsni so. Ce je clovek s teboj prijazen, si tudi ti z njim, ce pa isce prepire, pa najbolje, da se umaknes, kajti, zakaj bi delali iz misi slona? 
 Vcasih nisem imela veliko prijateljev in mislila sem, da sem najbolj grozen clovek. Nisem vedela, zakaj me ne marajo. Sedaj se je veliko stari spremenilo in spremenila sem se tudi jaz. Imam veliko dobrih prijateljev, ki jih spostujem. Zelo lepo je imeti ljudi, ki ti zaupajo in kateri se lahko zaupas tudi ti. Vedno ti je lazje pri srcu, ce se nekomu lahko izpoves. 
 Veliko mi pomenijo tudi stvari, ki jih dobim. Vedno kadar pogledam v podarjeno stvar, vidim v njej tistega, ki mi jo je podaril in tiste lepe trenutke, ki sem jih ob tem prezivela. 
 Z mamico sva se velikokrat pogovarjali o izobrazbi, opazila sem, da ji je zal, ker se ni ucila in dokoncala srednje sole. Hudo ji je, ker je placa majhna, zato mi velikokrat pravi, naj se ucim, da ne bom obzalovala, ze sedaj mi je zal, ker se nisem v osnovni soli potrudila in lahko bi bila v ekonomski soli, kot sem si zelela. 
 Ne dobis vedno tistega kar si zelis, vendar je lepo, ce si zadovoljen s tistim, kar imas. 
 

When I was still a child I didn't know how to appreciate the things I had. The elders say that we have a good time and we should be happy because we are young. Now, as I am older and more reasonable I think it's true. I appreciate things more and I concentrate on the things I have, not on the things I don't have. Sometimes if I go through the tough time, my mother comforts me and then I fell better. One learns a lot of one's own experience. I have learned to appreciate things and also to accept people as they are. If people are kind to you, then you are kind to them, if somebody is looking for trouble, it is best to say nothing. Why make a mountain out of a molecull ? 
In the past I didn't have a lot of friends and I thought I was the most horrible human being. I didn't know why no one liked me. Now, things have changed and I have also changed, so I have a lot of friends whom I respect. It's nice if trust is mutual and if you are able to open your heart to somebody. 
Things that I get as presents mean a lot to me. Whenever I look at them I see the persons that gave them to me. At the same time I also remember the moments when the presents were given to me.
I often talked with my mother about education and I noticed she was very sorry not to learn enough and not to finish the secondary school. It's bad now because money is scarce. She encourages me to learn more, but I am now sorry I didn't work more in elementary school so that I could go to the school of economics which was my greatest wish.
You can't always get what you want but it is nice if you are satisfied with what you have.