FROM THE EDITOR
Dr. EMZAR DJGERENAIA
What makes us happy? – Is it hope?
Since December another attribute – hurry-scurry of New Year’s eve – has been added to our everyday problems. We feel anxiety, we suffer, fuss and grumble, but still we are waiting for New Year with great excitement. We are glad with the coming of New Year, snow and cold wind blowing outside.
In free time I have often thought about what made us so happy, but I have not yet found any answer. On December 31 I have often seen clock hands approaching 12 and people hurrying home as if somebody or something is going to leave them. People hurry without looking back as if they are afraid of remembering the past. They walk nervously home putting on pace as if after coming home they will find themselves in paradise where their dreams and desires will come true and problems will be solved. Why are we so happy with the coming of New Year.
Is not it because we hope that
* A new benchmark will begin and past problems will be solved, the world will change and the villain who lives on robbery and theft will turn into a decent man;
* Murderers will not kill people any more and kidnappers will not kidnap;
* Parricide will not commit the same crime, but he will repent and lead a decent life;
* Schemer-neighbour and wicked mother-in-law will turn into angels;
* The government will tell no lies and will make something useful for the country;
* People with shoulder-straps will not rob and oppress poor people;
* Big countries will feel pity for the small ones, will return their territories, help them to create strong army and forgive their debts;
* Elections have always been a farce, but there will be fair elections once;
* Demagogues will be ashamed and tell truth;
* Drug addicts will take no drugs, the “rotund” will get thinner, thieves will not steal, indecent will become decent and rich will become poor
* A beloved one will love back and he who found love will not lose it;
* At least, this year we will have electricity;
* Economy will prosper and salaries will increase;
* The good will defeat the evil.
Thus, we are happy with our own hopes! And yet New Year is the first day of a month like all other days, it is the same mirage as triumph of the good over the evil, as a New Year fairy tale.
Thus what are we happy with? We are happy with hope that we entertain on one winter night that might burst next day as life moves in a groove. We deceive ourselves with vague hopes and we are well aware that the evil is stronger than the good, a kind man faces more obstacles, the country belongs to robbers, bandits, villains, cruel, indecent men and politicians, and the others are left to perform the role of decorations. But as we can see, hope and self-deceit is as sweat as New Year gozinaki. That is why we are so happy as it is impossible to change people as well as our life. Thus, I congratulate you on New Year. Do not lose hope as it is yet free of charge. It is as pure as this Christmas light.
I congratulate you, my readers, on Christmas and New Year and unlike you, I hope that this year you will still read our magazine. Subscribe to it and all of us will be happy with the hope because I still have hopes, too, and let our hopes come true! If this year the hopes do not come true, there will, certainly, come another New Year!