Today I read an article in the newspaper with this title: “Ina (23 years old) is chronically ill. The problem is that nobody sees it.” They placed a colourful photo of a pretty girl, out walking with a dog. Her problem is that she can do nothing — neither study nor work. There is no energy.
If you told this now to my mama, who on 26 March is to turn 92, she of course would not believe it! I know what she would say: “well we survived in the war, teenagers worked round the clock, and still got a clip round the ear from mother if they did something wrong!” And now this girl is not alone in her problem. Young people are ill.
What surprises me most is that specialists do not analyse the causes of this ailment. She goes to the doctor, the doctor writes a sick note, they give her a money allowance, and that is all. In the article the parents are not mentioned at all, but they also do not write that she grew up an orphan. By law at 21 a person becomes independent and nobody has the right to interfere in their life.
And they don’t interfere: neither neighbours, nor the “old grandmothers” who once sat on benches by the house in former times in the Motherland. Here everyone is on their own. Neither friends nor enemies… somehow I don’t feel like writing today. I’ll go to sleep. “Morning is wiser than evening.” I hope to wake up wise.