Danke, Andrej Sacharow*

Early Monday morning. Berlin. I stand and look at the works of the Berlin Wall Gallery (East Wall gallery)... This is not my first visit to Berlin, but for the first time I think, is the Berlin Wall really destroyed? Or is it in every one of us?

About triggers like walls within us, about basic human rights. Europe lived in peace for a long time. It arranged its home. It has cultivated democratic values in its citizens, diligently and painstakingly, as roses are grown and cherished.

The 20th century was a great cost to be paid: socialism and its revolutions, the First World War, stagnation, disturbances and the beginning of the Nazi pogroms, Bolshevism, dictatorial regimes... all these processes cost and cost people dearly - millions and millions of human lives...

In the 21st century, Europe remembered and resisted totalitarian regimes.

However, in the zone inner comfort, feelings of pain and danger are dulled. Take a person out of this zone - introduce chaos into their life, forget clarity and orderliness of the schedule, leave them without sleep, take away their privacy, - and the whole theory of love for your neighbor will be pushed aside in 90% of cases. In a short matter of time survival instincts and the great mechanism of Ego will be activated. Any careless word, rough intonation, unheard opinion or simply a feeling of isolation can lead to an explosion of emotions.

In these situations of aggression no one remembers about the Convention on Human Rights, because every individual trigger has led to a tear in the bubble of patience. The one second it just pops and...

Today I want to share my opinion with you and say –

It is extremely important for each of us to understand that democratic values are not given as a birth certificate at the moment of birth, they must be grown and nurtured in each individual person and in society as a whole, we must work daily on ourselves first, and remember that each of us is a live human being and each one has their own bricks or maybe even walls established in ourselves.

Let‘s talk and listen, and most important – let‘s try to hear, because TO HEAR is quite a difficult task.

Let's look for common points of agreement rather than playing on triggers...

Let us work with our intonations of life and cultivate (in the sense of growing) respect and attention to our emotional state, to our opinion, to the opinion and state of our neighbours or random bystanders, as Kai and Gerda each grew their own rose in a pot on the common windowsill of the common house.

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#Europe #Inclusion
#Berlin #Erasmus #Erasmus_Plus
#EMYF #Germany #Empowerment
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_{*Thank you, Andrej Sakharov, Berlin Wall graffitti (artist Dmitry Vrubel, assist. By Viktoria Timofeeva), Berlin, East Side Gallery.}