La merveilleuse France
Bonjour de nouveau ! Je parle de nouveau francais car je suis en Angouleme.
I am again in France, in a delegation. I found the same town, the same people. Almost nothing is changed. Maybe the season is changed. Earlier I was in the spring and now I’m in autumn.
I have the strange sensation that I know this town from many years, even if I knew from this year. I see the people and all have similar faces, they look very familiar to me. And I can’t say that I know them. Because the town it’s having about 50.000 people. It’s like the the town is frozen, and I returned after much much time.
Even the France, his beauty doesn’t seem so beautiful in my eyes. But it’s my perception. Maybe I lost my enthusiasm. It’s of course my personal view which became more familiar with this country and town. But it’s not that I see them very familiar, I mean places, people, habits. It’s because of the intensity of the feeling and the fact that is maybe too strong compared to the period which I lived previously here (not more than 3 weeks). Now I’m looking at me and I’m saying : maybe I am changed, maybe I see differently the things, maybe I have other perception. That’s because I became older, and more reflective to the things that I see around me.
In fact it’s the same France, there are the same people, same villages and towns and same habits. It’s me who changed. I feel now that as I become more experienced in life, let’s not say that I become older because I don’t really like the idea, I get more and more sophisticated in my thoughts and my judgement . It’s a natural consequence of the process of learning. But I am surprised because this is so obvious.
The thing is that I am no more impressed by France, by the advantage of civilization, culture and infrastructure compared to Romania. This is another aspect. Of course the difference is considerable but it can be lowered. I am no more shamed that I am romanian, in fact I believe that Romania has a great potential. In fact what I have to do with the stupids, the ones that are do anything in the world but not to work. And I am not more impressed by anything. Because nothing is absolute.
I think that in a few years we will see an interesting phenomenon of evolution of Romania, because people are working hard to survive and gain their existence. Because they have things to do, because they have a reason to live for. I mean have a family, have a house or a car. And my perception in this is that here in France but even elsewhere in the reach countries the struggle is not so intense and the people are loosing their purpose in life. They live just because they live, a boring life without a special purpose because they are not pressed by material matters. They are gaining well their lives and life is passing very smoothly for them. So they are not mobilized to gain their existence, their lives. And when you are not mobilized, you are almost sleeping. You are at a low speed. But in Romania it’s not the case, because people are working hard to survive and they are coming fast from the rear.
Anyway, I hope that this will really happen because it’s the natural way that the a little poor countries advance and reach the developed countries.
