I woke up to a new day. Today too.
I hope something will really change today.
I’m talking about politics.
Politics in my life
It’s not by chance that I don’t talk about politics. Years ago, I excluded receiving and dealing with the news from my life.
My father expressed his opinion at the beginning of this period, which coincided with mine: a responsible person cannot withdraw himself from observing and understanding what is happening in his country and the world.
At that time, I told him that I couldn’t seriously deal with it as long as I saw that most people in our country only talked about what was wrong, but no one (in my environment) did anything, only talked. This is true for me too! I said that the next time I want to deal with politics, I want to deal with it when I see that there is action.
It is now.
Hungary and I
That’s why in the past few weeks – after many, many years – I’ve been watching the news again, which now mostly revolves around the election events.
Dad was surprised that I was now more informed. He was the first person I said out loud what had been on my mind for weeks.
In my article “The decision” I wrote this 16 months ago:
For a few years now, I’ve been thinking that it’s not good here. I don’t like the mentality that says if you’re not like this, then that’s it. There’s no alternative. I want to live in a country where not one out of ten people, but six or seven, smile back at me. Where most human relationships are guided by friendship, honesty, and mutual respect. I try to be Hungarian outside of Hungary, maybe somewhere else I can be proud that I was born Hungarian.
In recent months, I have been asked several times why I don’t like Hungary. Budapest is beautiful. Lake Balaton is beautiful. Orbán is a strong leader. These are pretty much the opinions I have encountered during my trip so far.
I told my father that I only keep the end result in my heart, the overall impression that I am not good at home.
In recent weeks, I have started reading the news because I realized that they are now very systematically summarizing the crimes of the government that was called the current government until yesterday. So, the next time someone asks me or initiates a debate with me on the subject, I can already be prepared to list the crimes committed against our country. The crimes committed from within.
Because I have no doubt that the leadership that has not yet resigned is guilty.
For me, their biggest crime is not that … I won’t even start. That is not my goal with this article.
The biggest crime that this famous company has committed is that they divided Hungary. I alluded to this in the text quoted above. But they have divided not only the country, but also families and friends.
This is the most heinous crime of all their crimes!
I do not wish them any punishment. Instead, I wish that every Hungarian wishes for this to end. Let us turn our energies to the future and not to the past!
But I do not trust this at all! Perhaps more people will proclaim the acceptance of differences of opinion, tolerance, respect for others, but the division will always be there for some reason.
Come home!
I didn’t plan to write about this topic at all.
However, there was a sentence among the morning news:
Péter Magyar also addressed Hungarians living abroad, he said, “come home”, because Hungary will be a country where the police and the secret service serve Hungarians.
At the same time, he also answered my why:
According to the party chairman, it is a wonderful thing to be Hungarian today, and the Tisza Party will represent all Hungarians, because this is the job of the Hungarian government at any given time, we should not differentiate between Hungarians and Hungarians, we should not divide them, because that is a sin.
I would like to believe this, Péter!
I would like to believe that when years from now I say, “Péter Magyar, Prime Minister”, there will be a feeling of gratitude in my heart, not bitterness, like now, upon hearing this title.
We are already past the Turkish, Austrian, Trianon, German, Soviet, Orange… Our children should no longer be able to say, a little disappointed, in the middle of their lives that it hasn’t been good for us yet, but it will be for our children. We have been doing this for a long line of generations.
If you can make this happen, one day I might consider going home.
Until then, I am happy elsewhere!
Postscript: I took the picture yesterday in Vientiane, the capital of Laos. It depicts the World Peace Gong. I was also thinking about its message this morning.
Buy me a coffee?
If you enjoyed this story, you can buy me a coffee. You don’t have to – but it means a lot and I always turn it into a new adventure.
Buy a coffee for Steve
Linktree
Short introduction