It is the Finnish national day.
I am here writing my next novel and I hear the Finnish national anthem in the TV, being sung by a skilled choir. It stops me. It is a song one has heard time and again, yet it seems I for one have not been listening lately.
Yet, I think it is not only I.
We live auspicious days, jaded days, the economy is grinding to a halt, people are losing jobs, interest and hope. I'm guilty of this as well. It is strange, how such few beautiful notes can make one remember that despite all the hardships, one's country is worth loving and believing in, if you take time to listen to the song and believe in the dream.
75 years ago we were fighting Russia alone in our Winter War. We survived and one of my favourite sayings comes from that time. "Kollaa kestää." Kollaa will hold. Grandfathers who fought in that war, sorry for forgetting.
I'll be fine.
Finland will hold.
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