A new beginning.
Every morning we start a new day. Every day is a new start to life. New opportunities, new possibilites. Life is fresh at the start - even though I am not always really fresh in the morning.
Life is a circle of beginnings and ends. Being born, growing up, dying. It is the journey of all living things.
This picture is a symbol of all these aspects. The dawn is a symbol of a new start. The trees without leaves shows how things end. And we can walk around this, as we do on the road of our lives. We can rest on the benches and take a break. Relax when life is too difficult. Breathe in, breathe out.
When I heard of the war, that started in Ukraine yesterday, I was in shock. Never have I experienced war first hand, never was I eager to do so.
I was crying a lot, when I saw the pictures of bombings and rolling tanks. I am not sure, what this is going to mean for our lives in the future. Will the war come to our homes? I am scared, as I right these lines. But I am more afraid for the people in Ukraine, then I am for myself. There is still a lot of space between the war of line and our homes. There are less than a thousand miles between Kiev and my home town. That is quite a distance and I don't expect the war to come close to us.
But probably the people in the 1930s and 1940s had similar thoughts when the Nazi's occupied Austria and attacked Poland.
I don't understand what is going on. I cannot take a side, since I have no idea why this war is happening. But I think that it is a bad idea. I hope it is not escalating, that there won't be a spreading of war to other, neighboring countries. That there won't be a confrontation between NATO and Russia, since this could be disastrous. It is already for everyone in Ukraine and my thoughts are with them. But I don't want to imagine a Hot War between the USA and Russia. Probably this would be the end of the world we know.
I hope that this war ends soon. That innocent lives are spared. That peace is coming back to Ukraine, Russian and all neighboring countries soon.
War is never helping anyone in the long term. Having peace and prosperity for decades helped us build the wealth and standard of living, that we have now in Europe.
I don't like to talk a lot about politics, so I am probably not often coming back to those topics. But since yesterday I was barely able to think about a lot different than that. I am praying for the people. I am crying because of those things happening.
Covid is bad and affecting all our lives. But this is horrible. I hope it stops soon.
