I can see how cold all of you are sitting in the open-air. Good for our Government, they have considered the fact and have taken care of you all by providing warm blankets.
Now most of you - presidents, high-ranking officials, journalists, scientists - are sitting covered with blankets, probably thinking what the hell you're doing in this goddamn Armenia, at this goddamn memorial of those goddamn Armenians. If you do so, you certainly won't say of it aloud, you have better words of courtesy and sympathy that you'll articulate if asked.
I do not care who thinks what of Armenia and Armenian people and the Genocide of Armenians. I do not look at the official mouths that speak things as needed by the protocol and the moment and the place.
But what I am thinking looking at you all sitting there and freezing is that nothing's in vain in this world. There is always a reason why. So maybe you are freezing there to try to understand and imagine how people suffered those deportations in the cold without a blanket carefully provided "by the organizer".
There is always a reason why.
This may be the chance of your personal growth just for your own self - your own self who knows the right words as needed. Yet the words have price when they are not merely ceremonial but lived through. So, maybe you could throw away the blankets and try to feel the cold and the short discomfort.
Nothing terrible will happen, for you have the means to see your doctors and get cured of the slight malady you'd probably catch because of that goddamn Genocide of Armenians.
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Now most of you - presidents, high-ranking officials, journalists, scientists - are sitting covered with blankets, probably thinking what the hell you're doing in this goddamn Armenia, at this goddamn memorial of those goddamn Armenians. If you do so, you certainly won't say of it aloud, you have better words of courtesy and sympathy that you'll articulate if asked.
I do not care who thinks what of Armenia and Armenian people and the Genocide of Armenians. I do not look at the official mouths that speak things as needed by the protocol and the moment and the place.
But what I am thinking looking at you all sitting there and freezing is that nothing's in vain in this world. There is always a reason why. So maybe you are freezing there to try to understand and imagine how people suffered those deportations in the cold without a blanket carefully provided "by the organizer".
There is always a reason why.
This may be the chance of your personal growth just for your own self - your own self who knows the right words as needed. Yet the words have price when they are not merely ceremonial but lived through. So, maybe you could throw away the blankets and try to feel the cold and the short discomfort.
Nothing terrible will happen, for you have the means to see your doctors and get cured of the slight malady you'd probably catch because of that goddamn Genocide of Armenians.
