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But seriously a bit ...personal
by Thanos Kalamidas
2010-02-09 07:35:10 |
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The last three weeks I have been travelling abroad for personal reasons and I have to admit that I tried to keep away from the news. I decided to distance my self from contemporary miseries, wars and natural disasters. Not that things like that don’t happen to the places I was but somehow you are closing your eyes and try to focus in more everyday things, familiar places, friends you missed and loved ones.
And then after this three weeks break I’m back, browsing the news to find that everything has changed and everything remains the same. People still expect Barrack Obama to become the new messiah, nimbus around his head rising from the dust and with his long spear ready to punish the unfair the tyrants and bring peace on earth. People die in every corner of this planet from hunger and lack of clean water, Ukraine has a pro-Moscow president – the other choice was the pro-Washington president which makes you wander if the Ukrainian people will ever have a pro-Ukrainian president. Iran has new nuclear plans and Berlusconi is still the Prime minister of Italy, Gordon Brown is trying surviving through one scandal after the other and Greece economic problems seem to be the reason for the latest earthquakes.
This minute I’m in front of a screen full of pictures and news, Sri Lanka arrests election loser, Michael Jackson’s doctor charged, Fresh Iran sanctions, kills in Kashmir and the same time a CD, a present from a very precious presence in my life, sings “…Always for the elusive I was looking!” I’m not a pessimist even though a cynic but I have the feeling that something must be done and this something must be done soon.
Is not that the news were any better ten or a hundred years ago, it is that this moment people are bombarded from misery everywhere they turn. And people need some hope to survive. They cannot turn their cheek one more time; it seems that they are doing so all the time. Something must change and I wish I knew where this thing will come from. I have the feeling that even Obama feels the same in his desperation to survive from one problem to the other.
My grandmother used to say that sometimes life is, one day you say “thank you god” and the next day you scream “god help me!” Nowadays every single minute is, god help us! You read on the news that less people bought Nokia telephones in China and start worrying for the price of milk in Finland. With zero savings in your bank account and all your credit cards in red you start watching the quarter results of Ford in USA worrying that you might lose your job in Germany.
And then a natural disaster comes with thousands of dead to remind you that the very same greediness that gambles your life, your job, your future is exactly the same greediness that has destroyed the earth and is lobbying – and unfortunately wins - against your only chance in Copenhagen.
Tomorrow I will return to Ahmadinejad, to Nicolas Sarkozy, to Mugabe, Brown, Obama, Berlusconi and Putin but tonight while it is snowing outside and the temperature is reaching minors twelve let me believe that in the end, somewhere there in the far end there is light and something will change.
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