THE REFUGEES … A STORY ABOUT CHANGE
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And i smile …. seeing what might even look as a total nonsense ….cause i met such a large spectrum of totally different souls.
Quite soon after the war from Ukraine started …. me and my family hosted people coming from there to my country.
I had the chance to meet in this way … lots of lost souls …. going to an unclear direction … having no idea about what will happen tomorrow.
They were on the path of a forced change …. and it was no chance as things to become better quite soon.
… or at least not in the near future.
Being retired …. not having what to do anyway … spent all my time in their company.
I just loved their presence.
Some … connected with me from the first second …. but i also met some that found too weird that i was helping them
and did not wanted to be so friendly from the beginning.
In the end …. I became the friend of all of them.
It was probably the first time in my life when i was investing all my time and energy trying to help the others …. and forget about my own interests.
And that was something … new for me.
It looked like … i was following a new path for my life … and i liked it.
One of the ladies …. told me one day …. “Becoming a refugee is about change … and mainly changing our values in life.
Not so long time ago … i cared a lot about what new jacket or shoes i will buy … but now after losing all the 3 houses we owned in Mariupol … and almost all my clothes and shoes … i simple smile.
Today i wear clothes from the centers created for helping the refugees … but i am happy that me and my family … are alive … and together.
I don’t know if i really became a better soul … but I totally changed my values of life.”
For that lady …. being a refugees was a totally new experience … same as for myself helping the others was a totally new way of spending my life.
Without realizing …. I started little by little to change my values …. and my life.
2 years ago if someone would tell me that i will spend my time like that … i would laugh saying that is a horrible joke … but today … i just love my new friends … the ukrainian refugees.
And i love them mostly… cause in their companion i succeeded to show to the world the beautiful side of myself.
And it was … so damn easy … and i wonder why i haven’t done that long time ago.
Today i could have been a totally different person …. one with beautiful values … as human being.
But you see … it’s never too late.
So … the russian-ukrainian war was a great opportunity … for myself.
Sounds weird … but it really was the right time for me and maybe many others to see life from a totally different perspective.
And once the process of change started i just hoped that everything will continue for the inner self in the same style.