A few days ago, I got into an argument with a colleague about our society and our environment.
I said that I am an eternal oppositionist, and the colleague I was talking to did not understand it in the right way.
At the moment, the situation in my country is complicated, the academic community (students, professors, artists and other citizens) have been protesting for a year against the freakish, thieving regime and its leader, the president of the state.
That president would burn our country (probably also the part of the people that does not support him, which is the vast majority), just to rule on the remains of the ashes, so what I said, that I am an oppositionist, makes sense at this moment even when politics is mentioned.
However, I have been an oppositionist since I can remember, in the sense that I have the mindset that I can always do better.
Someone would say that I'm a slob and a grizzled old man, that I'm looking for a hair in an egg, but no.
On the contrary, I don't want to slow down something that is being done and say that it is not good with my attitude "it can always be better", not to praise when something is done (even in an attempt), but with this statement I want to encourage the following: "Striving for perfection".
If the society in which I live is orderly, if state institutions do their job and the country is prosperous, if there is no corruption, if there is no waiting for hospital treatment, if there is no unemployment... If everything is great, I would wonder if the grass in the parks is cut properly and if the trees are regularly treated against insect pests.
I was listening to the news yesterday, in Slovenia, the closest organized country near me, maybe they have reached this level of organization, because the law is currently being adopted that dogs in the yards of houses must not be tied up.
Well uck, our student, who expressed rebellion against the government at the protest, was taken to his father's funeral with his feet tied, and there(in Slovenia) , where there is no chaos and terror, they are worried if the dogs are tied up next to the house in the yard.
OK, I love dogs and I agree with the Slovenian initiative, we are only today, while some demonstrators are on hunger strike to fight for higher goals, light years away from such an organized state and society.
But most often, we all live in an environment where not everything is great (even if at first glance it seems that both the state and society are in order), where there is a lack of money in the city budget, but where people try to make what they have, if not great, then at least more beautiful.
I found an example of this while walking through the streets of Szeged, a city that is far from perfect, in a country that is not the most orderly in the world, but where some individuals live who I believe, who think similarly to me and who do their best to make the environment better and more beautiful.
Some people who, due to the impossibility of repairing the sidewalks they walk on and replacing them with new one, are ready to invest a little creativity and time and make that cracked sidewalk they walk on a little more pleasing to the eye.
A little paint, brush in hand and cracked asphalt on the sidewalk turned into an interesting puzzle sculpture.
And that's why, wherever you live, do your best to make the environment cleaner (pick up a piece of trash you come across), more cultured (address your neighbors with a smile), give up your seat on public transport, give way to another driver on the street, mow the grass in front of your yard...
Because even those small activities that you do every day will make you know that you strive for better.
Be an Oppositionist, because it can always be better 🙂
I think everything or rather many things will get better eventually, although they tend to get worse first before getting better later. As they say, prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
and in the meantime, do the best you can 🙂
Exactly, all are processes, even the outcomes, good or bad. We can always decide to do our best and enjoy the ride :)