Paris

[NICE MOBIUS]

It is quite the social faux pas to point out obvious jokes.

Just FYI.

[Sava]

on the roof ?

He was until an antisemitic Frenchman threw him off

[Lorizael]

Correct. You get played. Like a fiddle

Look, I'm really tired and my balls hurt and I've got a quantum exam and a lab report due so please eat dicks.

[NICE MOBIUS]

Your balls hurt?

[giblets]

Must be Chlamydia

[Sava]

Such a beautiful name ^^

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[Bereta_Eder]

lets translate the oroginal letter to the blogger

Hi
I'm writing to you from paris where i live the last three years with my family
We left 3 years ago with my husband due to a business opportunity, a bit for the experience, a bit because of the situation in greece that seemed to have no future, with the aim that our departure would be something temporary and we'd reutrn "when things got a bit better"

Meanwhile, we doubled. We gave birth to two little children, the "frenchies" as their - bitter because of the distance - grandmother likes to call them. Only they are not frenchies because we are not french like so many others that live and coexist in paris despite their cultural differences

If I wrote you two weeks ago, I'd tell you how much I'd like to come home because I miss my little greece. i miss the sun, the sea and the tasty tomateos.

I miss the rest of my family and my friends. I miss the things I left behind as much as I know that they are not any more the same

I'd have written you how much i want to return and how much i am afraid.
afraid to come back to a country where things weren't "fix" but keep going from bad to worse.
I am afraid of the unemplyment of the misery

I am afraid to raise my children in a non existand state of law
I am afraid of alexis (the PM) and his gang for all that that they'll do and all those that they won't do

I am afraid for education and health coverage that are notions that don't exist. I am afraid of a justice that sleeps deepely.

I am afraid.

And then, friday comes the night and the tragic events that unfolded and I realize that all those that up untill yesterday I was afraid of, are nothing compared to what happened here, what happens everyday in dozens places of the world and can happen again at any time

(to be continued)

[Lorizael]

Yes, my back pain has mostly gone away, but now I'm having some kind of groin pain. Probably a torsion or kidney stones or something. I dunno. **** all y'all.

edit: man, that's a really ****ty x-post. I reiterate: **** all y'all.

[Bereta_Eder]

If the terrorists had as a goal to spread fear and to make you live with it, in my case, they succeded

Ackawtances, known and uknowon write in their social media pages jesuisparis. Well, I'm not. Because I'm afraid. As I was not charlie either some months back.

Because I dont stand fearless in front of the events to shout about the values of "enlightment" because all of that are lies and I think this is only the beggining.

And that which I am afraid of are not the guns, or the terrorists, it is something nuch deeper that each mother fears for those she brought to the world.

(to be continued)

[Bereta_Eder]

I am afraid that I brought my children in a world that goes from bad to worse.
I am afraid that each day hope fades

I am afraid they'll grow up in a world that will become more and more violent, authoritarian. unfree

I am afraid that this so called demcoracy that we live in will be abolished even more in the name of "citizen protection"


I want (for my children) to live their life freely

To choose where they'll live freely

To breath, to swimm to walk freely. I want them to eat whatever they want freely

I want them to choose who (male or female) they will love freely

I want them to believe in whichever god they choose, freely

All th mothers in the world cry

Litlte mothers cry in greece, they cry in france, they cry in syria, they cry in lebanon

Little mothers cry everywhere and theyr cry is a t times more silent at times more strong

They cry because they are afraid for their children, for their lives for their future for the world which is not "Angelically created"

They cry becasue they know they cant gove to their children the world the chose

Children symbolize hope and for hope to blossom you have to help it: to water it, to leave it free, to give her space to dance and sing and grow

[Bereta_Eder]

Mothers cry and squeeze their children in their embrace because the world is evila nd times are difficult.

and because they know that the cyrcle of violence does not clsoe with violence as those who have burned their hopes believe, those that have burned the children inside them. mothers cry because they afraid.

these are the thoughts with which i slept friday night. and i also cried as a mother for our present and our future.

and then saturday came and I saw my blossomes (kids) who woke up with hapiness and smiling, and a new day dawned.

and i saw in their eyes, clear, the hope. because she only can defeat fear

and i dont know in what i can hope. where i should go and leave to reasie my "hopes" that dont feel yet- not yet, thankfully - the evil of the world

I know that this world is not good enough for them but that's the one we got. I get lost and i am scared but at the same time i say "clench your teeth, don;t break"

They need you. You and all othe mothers of the world who are rasining HOPES.

will the "hope" win? or will the fear?

I dont know what else to say. In my ears sound the verses of that children's song that kept playing in the replay all wekkend to exorcise the fear:

"chldiren sing in the streets
and their voice changes the world
darkness scatter and the day flowers
like a blossom on the selve (balcony)"

Only Love.

[Sava]

**** all y'all.

Lori