I would like to look at the world from my window looking like what I see here. But it doesn't look like this. So I would like to change it, and all I can change is this little corner of the world that I call my house. I change the furniture around and use earthly colors, there are plants and flowers and outside on my deck I have started my own little garden. I would like to see all the rooftops of this city to be green. Let's make this city of cement look somewhat like the city of my dreams and of yours I am sure.But so much has happened since I started writing this. I live in Athens, Greece and the events of these past few days has saddened us all tremendously. I look at the world from my little window and instead of a peaceful city, I see a city in pain and despair. We are crying for a young boy that died, but also for the young people that continue living in a world that they don't deserve. We have not prepared them for this world, as we were busy working or fullfiling our dreams which were mainly material. We filled their pockets with money and told them to go out and hang out with their friends, because we didn't have the time or the engergy to deal with them and their problems and questions. We forgot that is not just saying it, it is also showing it. There is so much to say and sometimes, all I can do and say is: I am sorry. I am sorry that we thought that making money would make your lives easier. I am sorry that we thoght that a pocket full of money would make up for our absence. Not only our physical absence but also our emotional absence. I am sorry we forgot to be parents.
I am sorry we have disappointed you. I am sorry for making this world a place where you don't deserve to live in. I am sorry. But if there is one more thing that you can hear, please listen.
Stop, stop the violence and think. This world is yours, to remake. Think and decide. This is a time of bloom. From the ashes a new era will come, one that you will make yourselves. Use this as a chance to prove to yourselves that you can do better, smarter. I kow that you can. A place where love will be more important than material things. Where love will rule and what you make will be for you but also for your friend. When there is only for me there is no future for us. Learn from our mistakes, and don't make the same ones. Like the phoenix you will rise from the ashes and will make the world we have all dreamed of. God bless you!
