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Incredulously Watching the Sink

  My feelings towards the USA are extremely conflicting... Actually they are deep ambivalent because I can't come to terms with the growing visceral sense of disgusted disbelief!  ​I once deeply esteemed the States for their perceived inner freedom. Substantially, this freedom, is not because they are innately better than us in Europe, but because they do not carry the weight of such a long and heavy past. Europe’s history, full of glories and immense brutality, burdens us. This history has made us cautious, clinging firmly to the experienced beneficial path. Consequently, truly radical change—daring to leap into the "completely out of the blue" —is often a rare or impossible choice. ​Not so in the States. This capacity to dare is why they achieve scientific discoveries that might take Europe an eternity to reach. ​And yet, this blessed capacity to dare, however, is two-edged. This very same boundless freedom now exposes the terrible price they are paying. When freedom la...
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I was playing chess with life and somehow I managed. No big victories though. 
The good thing in this game is that when you perform a valuable act you get back one or more pieces you previously lost, while the opponent loses the same number of piece/s you gained. 
Fair enough I suppose. 

Then the almost nine years spent with my schizophrenic mother arrived and it was a real massacre! The only left piece was the king: me! And all the rest butchered.

It took years to recover physically and psychologically. 
But now my pieces are all back. I understood sooo many things that indeed, I must say I feel grateful. Nothing smoother could have taught me so much!

Now, at 72, I am ready to play the second (and final) round! 
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