"Aren't
you thinking about leaving Greece?" the Greek-American university lecturer
asked me over dinner, corroborating his suggestion with tales of young Greeks
who excel abroad, having managed to build a "real" future, at a
moment when, back in Greece, most of their peers see none for themselves.
I have come to appreciate the chance that
the Greek crisis presents to me as a citizen and as a human being, to rise
above circumstances, to get to know things I would have never known otherwise:
about human nature, about personal strength, about communities, about the
darkness and the light in our individual and collective choices in times of
hardship, about finding beauty where fear and gloom threaten to destroy all of
it, about navigating long-held beliefs, family relationships and questions of
disillusionment and meaning, about what a "real" future looks like
for each one of us. And it is not just me.
In all of my fellow Letters from Greece
writers' and photographers' work, there's common thread running through our
experiences of current reality. Reading mine and others' accounts of how it is
to be living here (from falling in love to politics to the secrets of Greek
apartments to being a mother to making it as a writer in a flailing country)
you cannot help but considering that living in 2015 Greece is interesting.
Living in 2015 Greece is conducive to growth -maybe not of the external,
obvious, career variety, but definitely of the internal, totally subjective
one. It's like running a marathon full of hurdles -you get to know your limits.
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