My trip to Kharkov
When we go to “the unknown” there is always a trip. We choose a destination but do we really know the purpose?
Everyone has his motives when he goes so far, in a country and culture as far from his own. Mine are always in the image of our passage on this good old earth)) Learn about oneself, always by the experience of the unknown, because we never finished learning! The problem is always the comparison. Our ego tries to always compare everything. With this either one provokes frustration or else an impossible quest towards an unattainable goal … a chimera.
It’s the same with love. If there is already a prior idea of what we are looking for, then we run after a mirage, a unicorn)). On the other hand, trusting one’s deep intuition, knowing how to differentiate what is part of the infantile emotionality that seeks an ideal, on the part of open emotion, mature, tender and inscribed in reality, may open doors for us. unsuspected; unknown territories, in short ….
Kharkov city that must be bothered to discover, to unveil, which is not as obvious as Kiev that immediately strikes the imagination. Kharkov is discovered, deserves … time is his friend ….
On this subject, its inhabitants are all in the same rhythm; a rhythm not too fast, quite serene or can be a little resigned, or simply the rhythm of a simple happiness … they only know it … They keep in them I believe this mystery and that’s what makes also their charm. We can not really know them completely.
This part of mystery of course can be found sometimes in Ukrainian women. But not in all despite the cliché. Some that are thought to be mysterious can be sad or resigned by the harshness of life. Even if smiles are easily offered to you; Ukrainian and Ukrainian sometimes conceal painful stories, surely out of modesty. That’s what I like about them, this dignity, to die yes, but to die standing! ))) They never complain … just they bite their teeth ….
So this way of fighting against fatality gives people wonderful, bright, open and curious of the world or sometimes beings a little extinct by necessity.
You tell me it’s all the same, of course, but not with the same strength or the same contrast. In Ukraine, the extreme, opposing poles are familiar. The fervor of belief, curiosity, listening and sometimes a true depth of soul. In short everything I like!
Here I am not going to rewrite war and peace))) but I would say that if you like poetry, history, change of scenery, sometimes heroism, stoicism and kindness … heat and humanity then go to Ukraine.
In women, I think, we find all the contrasts of their country, heat and cold, an apparent shyness but also the opposite a strong personality. But one thing is sure: the love of truth!
Being yourself, generous spontaneous and true, that is the key to get in touch with Ukraine and its people.
Philippe