Perhaps it’s also the memories I have from my childhood, when in the early 90s people were empowered by hope of free life. Right, things didn’t work out quite the same all throughout the ex-communist bloc, but even that didn’t stop the majority of hoping for a change up till about year 2000/02 (in Bulgaria at least). It was around that time that hope found itself in stagnation in Bulgaria. Enough governments had changed for people to realize that they ain’t finding anything good there. So, since then I have the feeling that politics in Bulgaria exists on air and air alone. But not just politics… people as well.

Now they say that the crisis has even reached down there. I cannot but remember the Pope’s words from about a month or so ago, when he stated that any economic crisis would be an example of how unimportant money is (click here for a video). It’s striking to see that ever since the Cold War left the newscasts and daily talks the Northern and Western part of the world has turned life into a pursuit of vanity. First it was big cars, big houses, more clothes, more choices… Then there came mobile phones, computers, MP3 players… plasma TVs, DVD recorders… And today, the same people who sold these to us five years ago are releasing commercials on how destructive they are to the environment and that we ought to buy the new, more efficient models.

What ought to gain even more of everyone’s concern, however, is that people are losing hope. Well, people have lost hope. Thus they don’t even want to fight ahead. Where is the attitude of The Wind of Change? Where is the looking forward to tomorrow? Moreover, where are the people who best know hope in the midst of all of this? What are you and I doing to replace discouragement with empowerment?

I find myself in a disappointing position… Just sitting and watching life pass by, not voicing out much of the hope I have. Sad.