Sunday, July 5, 2015

WHATEVER THE RESULT, "OXI" HAS WON


If only a hundred people vote for "OXI" in the face of such economic terrorism, in spite of narrow self-interest, those hundred people will be the yeast that will produce the bread to feed Greece. If a thousand vote for"OXI" they will be the saplings from which an olive grove will rise to provide shade and sustenance to democracy once again. If a million vote for "OXI", they will be the drops of rain that unite to fill the Mediterranean with hope and dignity again.
For the first time in many years, I feel proud to be Greek again. Not in a narrow, romantic, backward looking, nationalistic way. Not in the sense of thinking we are somehow better than others. But in a practical, present sense of thinking "we are on our way to being better than we are". Isn't that something? Isn't it everything?

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