can i make you cry?

once you were admired with what I wrote about mum. well, now it looks like i can do that for you. because we tend to forget the good things we have achieved in our life.

we come from a good family. maybe a little suffocating. this attachment to 'home' makes us somehow weak.

but maybe you never realized your achievements and your role for me. from you I learnt to believe. to believe in solidarity and not just charity. in being active. in taking part. in democracy as participation. in fighting for my rights. in loving people as human beings.

you going to demonstrations. you going to ex-Yugoslavia to help children. you conjugating God and left-wing ideas, recalling me the basic ideas that Jesus thaught us.

i learnt that one is not his profession. that if one does not like his job, can look for something different. that my future had not necessarily to be becoming a wife and mother. or not only.

from you I learnt that parents are important, but are human and make mistakes. And what they say is not always right. Even though dad thinks so.

I love you,

sista