sziasztok

Sziasztok! or Hello! in Hungarian.

Coming back to places one has been may not feel like a good idea at first. But like I usually say it's worth going back to where you feel it's good for you. In this case, because Hungary had a few connections with my life. Religious people may call them faith. Others karma.

As of now Budapest is still a place to discover many things. I did have a few hours in Györ, then Debrecen, some time in Pécs, and a quick sightseeing in Siófok. These are the latest Hungarian cities. That means a few trains, including one where the time on the screens inside the train was from an earlier date. For a while we were all lost in time. Amyways amyways*, Hungary has a great train pass worth checking.

And if you have read any past chronicles, you should definitely check some tips I have shared on travelling around certain countries with train passes from 1 month to 1 year. Or like in France, with only 1 euro. Got questions? Do let me know.

About this February in Budapest, the city looks quite similar to what I recall from 1 year ago. I did had the chance to meet people I already knew, tried to meet new people too and other than that it has a good urban environment I will keep exploring in the upcoming weeks.

I was living in Buda and recently moved to Pest.
Two differences one can see:
First, Buda is mostly for Hungarians. Pest is full of foreigners living or sightseeing here. 
Buda smells fresh air, children walking to the school, families walking around small parks or squares, and old Hungarians going shopping. Pest smells metropolitan humans, diversity, cultures, the indifference, the heart of a big city, cosmo life.

Staying here for longer has helped me to make a few reflections I haven't done in quite a while. The other day, I was walking with someone to the metro in Buda and saw a bunch of Nazis, and then the progressists or anti-nazis saying things I could barely hear, let alone understand. That week I was already reflecting on my political ideas and how weird that episode was for me. It was like SHOCKING.

In spite of that protest and all those billboards saying 99% of Hungarians don't support immigration, gender propaganda (some things right, some wrong) or whatsover, these numbers do not represent the reality. The reality is that these are fake polls. Here, I have to believe in what the left-wing would say. Why? Because it's statiscally not possible to have 99% of the population being in favor or against a certain topic. That means that everyone would have to think the same. And either way, the government wants everyone to think that they think the same. That means that the Party wants people to think there's no no alternative because they already represent the voice of the people.

And here, again, it's becoming increasingly crazy crazy to think that these things still happen.
Tell me, who can belive in Maduro, Orban, or Putin and all those horripilant ideas?
Or in Castro, Hitler, Mao, Ortega, and their similars?

I recall one of my academic mentors who would say about how people didn't say a thing and then the Nazis killed the jews, the Jeova witnesses, the gays, the political oppositors. How everywhere they always try to diminish or aniquilate someone, or some groups. And oftentimes, people don't react.
The other day was NaVALny.

Throughout history, how can people paint a rainbow behind a dark paradise!?

And in a world where ideologies, religions, political ideas and perpectives are plural, it'd be good to be free and have a good amount of freedoms until everyone respects everyone.
How rainbowy.

But the thing is that these differences seem to flourish and nurture only in certain countries. After living in Christian and Muslim countries, besides trying some Asian philosophies, visiting a few places with Jews, and then those people moved by different Orthodox (also Christians) churches, I'm getting more interested into observing where freedom is more vivid and accepted. 

Hopefully, one does not even have to go to every place to know what it smells like.
Freedom is still somehow found here, but it'is in the darkness in Venezuela, Palestine, Russia, Ukraine, and China. For those who support any kinds of limitations towards freedom, this chronicle works as a manifesto. If you think politically differently, that should be alright. Your sexual orientation should be alright. Your abortion rights should be alright. Your right to smoke some weed, drink your acohol, eat your chocolates and whatever while respecting others should be alright. Your willigness to live freely and you being yourself should be alright.

And dear reader, you won't find that in those countries. You may find a bit of it in France, Spain, Israel, Brazil, the US and many other weakened democracies. Speak your truth. 

And about freedom of movement, sexual freedom and freedom (s) in general, it's all about an endless trend. And nobody with clear thoughts wants the Nazis around.

Everyone knows what happened 70 years ago. To be more spicy, the Israeli will always use that as an excuse for not giving a dam* about many things. That's a fact. But what is happening is also a matter of terrorists who are always a threat to them and including to the Pals. Peace would be the mission but 99% of the world has their own issues to handle.


With this not-so-revolutionary manifesto, welcome to my new series of chronicles.
99% of readers lost. 1% of souls that may reflect. 
I say what, when, where, how. You say rainbowy. 

*Amyways is how I oftentimes refer to anyway(s) in honor of Amy Winehouse.
Ps. Navalny, like any other human being, wasn't a saint. But he lives forever.
RIP NAVALNY/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

99% No to gender propaganda' and 'Don't dance as Brussels whistle!

This 99% billboard is the result of a national poll. It's one of the many you can see everywhere in Hungary. Last time I've been here it was all about snow, now it's about what the 99% of the population thinks.
The truth is who believes in these polls?

Listen to Shostakovich's 8th Symphony by Mravinsky, mov 3.

Once you finish it, listen to Hungarian Sketches, Sz. 97 - I. An Evening In The Village by Béla Bartók.

After a wide range of recommendations it's time for some classical ones too.

While reading this chronicle, go with:

This is close to Déli station and near my gym. Déli is pronnounced as Daily :)))