My dear friend from all over the world! Today is a very sad day for my Country...I want to tell you the story that happend 23 years ago through the eyes of one great man. He was a poet and journalist. This is the story of heroic town of Vukovar whose struggle saved Croatias life. A STORY OF LOVE The time we live in is so unpleasant that you wish you had not even been born, or rather that you had been born at some other time, on another occasion, simply because right now there is not enough love to go around. What is the use of big houses, expensive cars, winter holidays in Vysoke Tatry, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, expensive perfumes and briefings? These are just shadows of real life. We give ourselves up to the narcotics of delusion, the illusory, secret paths of life, and when it is already too late, with our eyes closed to our own failings, we reach maturity; we suddenly realize that it is too late to start again. The end is here, it is perhaps already peering around the next corner. There is no way we can steal back the years, steal happiness – if there is no love. There may seem to be sun and joy, you may imagine that your success is complete as you earn a medal, in the shadow of great men, but I have seen many who, pockets empty walk with heads held high around this town. Their joy in having nothing is much greater. Because they have this town. They have friends. They have a soul. They didn’t have money for Zagreb, Vienna or Prague. Their money was left in the glasses they emptied with friends with whom they later waited for the sunrise over the Croatian barricades. For some that waiting took too long and they were lost. But we know full well where they are. If life allows us to let our love control us, as their love carried them, at the end of the road, perhaps we can expect that we too will die happy. Siniša Glavašević *A story by the journalist from Croatian Radio Vukovar, Siniša Glavašević, who was captured and killed after the occupation of Vukovar, written during the siege and destruction of Vukovar.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 09:15:33 +0000
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