24 august 2011

24/08/2011 - Happy Birthday!

Today, the independent Ukraine reaches the age of 20 – adulthood is not even round the corner, but just one step away. When you are twenty, there is still time to have fun and be naughty – actually, there is always time for this – but there is now virtually no chance to avoid thinking about the future. Even if before this someone fed and educated you, now they start relying if not on your full support, but at least – your true independence.

And this is, probably, right – because someone else’s mind does not make you rich. Well, and our country is not one of those girls who desperately want to yield themselves (to marry) in order to seize happiness. Right? Well, and happiness, as we have already seen, is not there...

Mr. God, sure, has his own plan for everything – but human labor is able, it seems to me, to significantly alter, extend, supplement this plan. What we need is not to be afraid of being happy, and – create the happiness with our own hands, our satisfying work, but not based on misery of others. When there is light inside – it shines over the entire world...

Finally, as to me, any country in itself – is an abstraction. But it is based on – very concrete people. You and I. Let us not forget that being a human in this world is, among other things, a great deal of responsibility. Not collective one. Everyone – is responsible – for him/herself.