Persistence of Time
Max, did a great job reviewing the last year. Which made me think about the next one.
2006 — the New Year.
Let me write this from a perspective of someone living in a small European country in transition. Which actually sums up everything.
1400 years ago a small tribe of Croats came from the far east and moved into the plains next to the Adriatic Sea. They settled there and created a small country. It took them a century to get their first king crowned.
The country developed and grew for the next 400 years. Around the time when Great Britain was conquered for the last time, Croatia was conquered for the first time.
Well, conquered is how I see it. We entered a union with Hungary and Austria. That lasted for some 800 years under various names.
And then we were free! Yeah, right! We entered a union with some other eastern Slavic countries — Yugoslavia was born.
It took us 200 years to get out of that mess.
And now we’re free! Again — yeah, right!
Now we’re entering the EU — I won’t say that EU is a bad thing. I won’t even say that Croatia as a part of the EU is a bad thing.
But I won’t also say that it’s a good thing. Why?
Well, I mentioned some fictional country in transition. How can a country who doesn’t know how to feed its own people enter a economical, monetary and political union as EU?
Hell if I know! But it seems that I’ll find out.
We’re due to enter around 2008 so my 2006 is going to be a painful year. A lot of reforms, new laws and suchlike.
On the other hand — things seem to be looking up around the world. Even here.
Maybe 2006 won’t be a bad thing — maybe it will suck as 2005 (as Max put it).
I really don’t know.
But I know one thing — I wish you all a great 2006!
And please don’t blame me for using this blog as a tunnel for my frustrations.
Cheers!
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