Really exhausting working week. The pressure is making itself felt.
It is probably not really comprehensible for us. How it is. Four or five years after fleeing from a war zone or crisis area, you have found your feet here in Austria. You do an apprenticeship, go to school, hang out with your friends. Finally, after all this suffering, an almost normal life. And yet not!
Negative asylum decisions are piling up among Afghan friends and friendships are torn apart because someone moves on. Many Austrians lose a family member, a friend, a loved one.
Is there a connection between the cool, emotionless business language and the loss of empathy? How is it possible that so much suffering happens in our country, so much grief is caused, so much pain, and so few talk about these emotions, including what it does to us as a society?
We all have setbacks. We lose someone, couldn't help, lost sight of people, or were too weak to help. But we also have the other moments. Each of us has consistently supported 1 person in our lives. Taken by the hand because the beginning was so hard. Because there is so much going on that the business and official language does not talk about.
Let's remember the moment when someone took us by the hand. It happens to everyone. To everyone. Let's remember the feeling. Someone has saved us, 1 person, thus the world.
Let's connect for a moment with those who saved us and the One we saved. That will make it bearable, even for the friends coming back from the worst places in Europe. Let us hold on to the moments of empathy, of charity, of love.
"He who saves a life saves the world" Talmud
A real comfort in adversity, fills me with gratitude and humility. Gives me strength in the dark hours. To see the hands that save me and reach out when needed. Let us remember this when we fail to do something, when mistakes happen, or when we lose someone. Let us remain in this comfort.
Love could turn the tide, in heartfelt attachment to my children, my family, my sincere friends, those people who empathically and carefully accompany my life.
Doro
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Dear Doro! Feel warmly embraced. It is not only language that is brutalised. I wonder why it is so incredibly difficult to listen, to hear, to be genuinely interested in the other person? Perhaps many of us push away what sounds too much like our own unspoken, tragic stories bunkered in the basements of our being, which must not be allowed to come to light under any circumstances. We stay tuned and listen! All our love! Gerlinde
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Dearest Gerlinde!
Heartfelt thanks and hugs back. Nice to know you. HG Doro
Beautiful, yes , yes , yes.....we are one. Perceiving cause and effect, learning. From this
a sense of justice arises. So let's act as you say, Doro, let's shake hands.
All the more necessary during the Corona crisis. We are allowed and must be allowed to work through our own personal history and recognise our traumas step by step. Gradually expand empathy.