Saturday 26 February 2011

The piecies of puzzle

Almost every week I take one chinese cookie to look what is there inside. I like this kind of little rituals that add a little bit of spice or colour in daily life. The weekly rituals can be whatever kind of activity learning a poem a week, hearing radio in the language that you would like to master, thinking how your day could be or something more material like drinking morning coffee. With the last one there might be millions of people that do it on the other side of the world at the same time. From time to time I am amased how I have these "sticky" ideas in my thinking that when I take a piece of something sweet, it would really cheer me up. Although in chocolate and happiness-hormone have a connection, then it seems to be one of the fix ideas that smoking is for calmness, coffee must be drinken to start with the day etc. It should be rather obvious for whom that good is that almost no one gives another thought why do we have such bee in our bonnet.

Back to the cookies. The chinese fortune-teller had for my week that I will have a suprising find. Last week my founds were really different: the sun, a seeshell in the forest, spring flowers, a spoon, a song, bike keys, hope, but this week it was all a little bit different. I could say that it was as if to find two pieces of puzzles (different pictures and eah had millions of pieces) from which my attitude to life will be formed. As another allegoric example I would say that I found a doorjamb,a corner of one roofing tile, a cornise and a doorhandle that all are from different buildings.

On the day when I saw the first rabbit of this year, I spoke all night with my flatmates about the revolt in Libya. It was so different feeling to talk about this topic with somebody whose country is connected with the problem so closely. In Italy, especially in the southern parts, the migrants are such a problem, because of the big number, the unefficient intergration and cultural and religious background. She is such a world citizen from her attitude to Europe and her unpatriotic relationship with her country. As she with rather untolerant way sees the situation with Africans in southern Italy, it shows that the situation is already critical for the country. In addition to that what Berlusconi says and does, what happens with the migrants in a year or so, had Italy strong economical relations with Libya. The matter of having a continual gas supply, is a frightning question for all.

The way how the discussion ended, was beautiful. Giulia saying that actually we should be capable to live here on the earth all together. It is something that I have not thought about the last days being restrained, feeling the hogtie because of the gush of news.

We cannot explain here in Europe why we have obtained the most of the riches and as a freeloader living off. Why in Africa the common people do not have almost nothing and we here...? That is not on our decision but we still make the play along. And the dictatorship should have been then also in the interest of the europeans who have had the gas from there for a long time thanks to the collusion with the local powers easier and cheaper. Could there be another reason to the fact that the land full of richness, have 60% of people that are unemployed and 87% of the population being poor.

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