Today is the elections day in Ukraine. The weather is just beautiful and autumn-y and cozy. But I'm sitting home and not going out to vote.
Its funny how I love the online polls (doesn't everyone?..). I think that we kinda claim ourselves choosing something, clicking on it, state our opinion even on something unimportant to the world.
Then why do I not want to go and state my opinion on something that could pretty much change the lives of myself, my friends, family, colleagues, neighbors, strangers?..
Isn't it what's really important rather then a poll, say, at the music blog about the best performance of the night of some random tv-show?
Yes it is. It is so important for my country that it is actually a question of life and death.
But what could I do?
It's all lies.
Lies, lies, lies - put on banners around the city, filling the radio air, spreading all over the newspapers, flooding our minds.
And the truth is we are sinking. Truth is we are struggling no less than any poor African country - the only difference is that we are white and therefore mistaken for a developed European nation.
But what could I do? I'm a hard working girl. I got the highest grades at Uni, I'm building a career right now, I'm not taking anything from anyone but trying to help people with my work instead.
So I'm a hard working girl. How could I change this situation?
What if go vote? Whom I can vote for? Those people - some of them are wanting power, some are wanting money and some are craving for both. But I don't see anyone who really wants to save the country. Someone who's honest, someone who'll say - see, we are dying and I just don't wanna go down with this country so I'm doing something.
I'm not hopelessly stupid - I know there are such people. Just not on the voting list.
There are also people like me - who genuinely believe that you just have to do everything you could and do it good - study, work, love, live.
But what can we do?
Just to sit home at the elections day?..