Life is a challenge for me everyday that I fail to live it as an adventure and thus fall well short of what I can be, can become, and can experience [see photo].
Last Sunday I was strolling through the old town square here in Prague and stumbled upon a stall where some thirty something women were supporting the Zelensky regime. Earlier in my life... I might have made a contribution to the cause and moved on. But... I decided to ask the key question I had for the organisers of this stall full of trinkets, flags, photos, rehoric, and provocative statements.
"Why do you support the corrupt Zelinsky regime?" was my bold provocative question.
We had a fun time over the next 10 to 15 minutes [sometimes with emotions evident] as the best English speaker told me how Ukraine was winning the war. How she had supported the Ukraine cause since 2014 when Putin annexed Crimea. Around and around we went. Along the way I conceded many points to her; and, she listened carefully, and mostly respectfully, to me. Of course... I had asked a loaded question in the beginning and that was a mistake on my part; however that was what was in my mind at the time.
By the end of our verbal adventure I was none the wiser about the range of possible answers to my initial question. And yet... I did have a clear and present view of the "truth" according to these motivated women and I better understood why they were standing there raising money for Zelensky. Their bottomline was they believe that Zelensky will win the war he is waging against Putin. I tried, many times, to warn them that Zelensky can not and will not win. Instead Zelensky might lead the Ukraine to become a pile of rubble. That outcome will surely not be a victory for Ukraine even if the Russian army withdraws. They invited me to come back and to see them in five years time. I told them I would not be back.
Life goes on... I left the old town square with a pep in my step. I know the war in Ukraine has already, and will continue, to adversely affect my life; but, so long as I am living my own adventure then I will adapt, survive, and perhaps even thrive.
Richard.
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