I went on a date with my Vietnamese friend on our (70 ish) Independence day. Unshaved, she understood only a few words in English, and her “R” is so much more subtle for me to understand…
Nevertheless, it was so wonderful to meet her on the main southern city junction, yet, a small city with some heritage of bravery wrote on the nation’s page-of-history.
Presented her to my father, he was smiling at me, this thin angel walking next to me!
On that night, a couple, in their mid 40s, who are more familiar with more fashioned parts of Israel reached to us, and asked her about her origin. I have advised her not to answer such a question.
She told me that it is okay, and they began to speak.
I have looked towards them and understood two things: I was mistaken: this couple feels deeply lonely here, in their own homeland. … many actually are, the strong Israel, the startup nation.
There is too much competition in here, too many too smart. Too many people here go to universities just to get the social advantage of analyzing people, not for the main reason of making the world better… I was studying at the university for the wrong reason. It is probably a common problem in many parts of the modern world, maybe.
I danced a lot on that night, next to this ever-smiling Vietnamese girl!
The face of poverty
You see that girl on the picture? on the same world I have mentioned, there is a belief on the face of poverty, also here, also here… and poverty in Israel is only a definition of argument, not a real state of life, zero-hunger and a-must-have-medical-insurance for everyone, are two general examples.
And still, I learn to understand how fathers and mothers who are from the Kibbutz generation, mothers and fathers who are CEOs, try their best to limit the other-people’s-children from prosperity.
What exactly happens is not important, the thing is about understanding in advance one truth of this life, people suffer, understanding the suffering would allow you to build your freedom in a way that participates in all the faces in the world. And how wonderful is that, it is like dancing next to the angels.
