Even Greener Pastures

It looks that the whole world situation looks so bad that it exaggerated everything we could think of... Nobody wants to comment anything 🙄
Me, personally, hmm... everything I thought about how the life goes... seems to be upside down nowadays. So I started to withdraw from social life. I have my beloved wife and things we like to do together. I have a son who has his own life with its specific problems. And I have my internal world where I'm safe. These are the things I can be sure about. Besides I have the feeling that I know nothing about the world... and I'm not a person who comments easily on topics which I know nothing about...
I don't know if the others have similar feelings... or maybe a forum like this one is outdated (out of fashion) nowadays?
Stay warm and safe everyone 😀

I’m in touch with my sister in Ukraine who left her own city to another place of Ukraine to survive.

It's sad, but there are many families in this situation. A few days ago I talked to a patient. She was mother who came to Poland with her child with serious disabilities (needing constant care and many medical procedures). They came from Kharkiv (Харкiв / Харков). Seeing her struggling to use an automatic translation app, I proposed that we could speak Russian. She told me her father was Ukrainian and her mother was Russian. She was raised in Kharkiv and considers herself Ukrainian. But her sister left Ukraine and settled down in Russia. Now they are separated by the war... and she had to emigrate, because living with her disabled son in a partially destroyed town was impossible.
It's even hard to imagine those dramas (not even thinking about people who lost their family members forever)...

I read it only now. Natalie. Like me. Sorry, for writing my thoughts  here like crazy but it’s my way to realise some things happen

I will just repost a fragment of a private message (we exchanged some time ago):

"Of course it shouldn't be so... but we tend to be more sympathetic to people that look like we and live close to us.

[...]

 But attacking the whole independent country... even considering is as a way of dealing with conflict  - it destroyed the sense of stability and safety for most European. We still remember from the 20th century history when one country systematically took its neighbours one by one while the other countries were saying "Oh no. Let him do so. It's their own business. He will take this country and leave us in peace." In fact he didn't. That's what the rest of Europe is afraid of. [...]"

Especially now, when we should happily celebrate the anniversary of the end of the WW2, we should feel safe, like we did during the previous years... thinking such things would not happen again  - I mean attacking one country by the other (for whatever reason). We thought that all European countries learned something from this painful lesson.
This year showed us  - not everyone learned... unfortunately....

Happiness and peace to everyone. Especially to our neighbour country  to survive this evil attack and to preserve its independence.

Bravo to the resistance in Ukraine 🇺🇦 and to the solidarity shown in Poland 🇵🇱 and other neighboring countries.