Our childisch dreams with the power of adults
A spark, a flame, a fire

sparkOne day in January it was snowing very heavily. We live on a hill and as I came back in morning from shopping, I saw a car slipping on the ice. It couldn’t go forward and there was a small man pushing it from below. His child was waiting on the pavement.

I waited for a minute to see if there was any success but it didn’t go any better. So, I left the shopping bags on the snow and I started pushing the car as well from the other side. Unfortunately I have to admit that I have little strength and I’m not athletic at all. The situation didn’t change, the car continued to slip on the ice inspite of the driver’s effort. We continued though to push, the small man and the powerless woman. I was looking down to the street putting all the power I had. Suddenly the car moved on!!! I was surprised and then I saw a big strong man standing between us and pushing as well. The car went up the hill.

The small man had left his child at the side waiting and tried pushing this big car. This view and his insisting effort had empowered other people as well to help and we’ve got a result.

Through this blog I want to bring up the spark of a youthful dream, a dream that the children usually have. A world without borders. I’m a small person in front of the huge earth BUT I’m not alone. I want to start pushing in the dream’s direction. We all can contribute in ideas independent how naive or impossible they shine. It’s a dream, we can say anything.

 

About

I've grown up in a small town in Crete, Ierapetra. Climbing on the roof of our house I could see the sunset and the wide sea. I used to dream, to read books and to take rides in the neighbourhood with my bicycle. I think the strongest I did was the dreaming. Naive dreams about peace and love in the world. That was the story until I turned 17. Afterwards, I continued with studies in a big city, Thessaloniki. I stopped dreaming and I started living, as I used to say by this time. Making friends, going out, studying were the things I was concerned about. I hardly had a target. The only thoughts occupying my mind were to find a boyfriend :-), to finish university and to find a job. No vision, no dreams. It went no better on the way. I finished my studies as an electrical engineer and I did my MSc in Data Networks in the UK. High qualified I found a good job back in Athens. I've got married to my boyfriend and now we live in Aachen having 3 wonderful children. 30 years after leaving my little home town I remembered the dreams I did as a kid and teenager. A world of peace and love. I had withdrawn them as naive and irrational. Now I decided to bring them forward and at least start discussing them with you. That's why I started this blog. A spark can be turned off or be a flame. :-)

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