Karolina Stefanowska: mention point

The events of 2008 were not full understood until years later, after Smolensk and the entire, decently ongoing, post-Smolensk operation. It was the time erstwhile Russia attacked Georgia. As usual in specified cases, after first shock, politicians begin to talk, sometimes act, 1 looks at another, individual lights candles, individual arranges a march, individual talks about sanctions. What did president Lech Kaczyński do then? He got on a plane and flew to Georgia. He stood before Georgians at the rally and loudly, unequivocally and clearly said that Polish consent to specified actions of Russia is not and will not be. This was earned by the large gratitude of the Georgians and the equally large hatred of the Russians, all the more so that he did not come to Tbilisi alone. He took with him the leaders of another Baltic states, who, informed about the plan of the president of Poland, had to respond - will come or will not come. At that point, Lech Kaczyński established the regulation of conduct and others had to follow, accept or not, apply or not.

I do not want to justice the full presidency of late Lech Kaczyński, of course, due to the fact that this is simply a very complex matter, but this 1 event, this 1 act, was 1 of the fewer in our fresh history, the actions of a leader. due to the fact that a actual leader thinks beyond patterns, he can get his head out of a tight framework of rules imposed by others, not necessarily wiser or better educated.

I realize that any readers may light a red light here: are we to reject the rules? It sounds a small dangerous and it can be, but it all depends on what our interior regulation is, what our decisions and actions relate to. This is the key and most crucial issue in assessing our actions by both the prism of temporality and eternity.

Many of us most likely seem to think that our point of mention is faith, Catholicism and the resulting values, but is this truly so? In the case of many people in the ellipse of power (I am talking about parties trying to look right and Catholic, the others for apparent reasons I omit) so unfortunately it is not, on values (which possibly somewhere in the heart are or are trying to be, then only God knows) declared many another rules and rules are imposed, which are only rules resulting from the actions of another people who are not necessarily wiser, better educated than us, and, above all, frequently - unfortunately - are not as close to God as they should be.

Examples? Electricity and gas prices are rising to absurd levels, business is falling, people are losing their jobs, they are getting into debt, and what is the consequence of our leaders? “The Union says”, “This is due to EU rules, we have a work to introduce them”, then they break their hands down helplessly. What is their mention point at the moment? Do they have - for the actual leaders of God - a prosperous and happy Poland to which their decisions are to lead us? Perhaps, but their decisions do not indicate this, but simply show that the Union is more crucial to them than Poland, than the order and prosperity in their homeland. Does God, wherever he speaks of the European Union, the request to associate nations, or does he say that leaders should service and care especially for the smallest and poorest? What is their interior compass, the Union or God's law? And what will take place erstwhile the Union breaks up?

Further, an interesting example in this context will be the behaviour of Mr Grzegorz Braun, who put out the Khanuk candles lit in the Sejm. For most of the public (or for its louder shouting part) the mention point is... The Jews, whom he may have offended somehow, will so be a criminal act for them. Others will look at it differently: we have a parliament building in a Catholic country, we have Advent period, and yet no 1 is buying an Advent wreath in the Sejm. possibly this is due to the mistaken “worldliness of the state”, possibly from the shallowness of the Members’ faith, possibly no 1 has come up with specified an thought until now. Anyway, there's no wreath. It is simply a symbol of a different religion, marginal at the minute in Poland, and for what purpose? Is he truly expected to be there? What is our goal - not to offend Jews or to be faithful to our God, from which everything else should come?

Unfortunately there are no great-format leaders on the Polish political stage, no people for whom references are God and Poland. The PiS, a organization after which so many expected so much, showed very clearly in the erstwhile run who is their mention point: Donald Tusk and his people. Vote for us, we're better than Tusk. Is that enough? Who needs that?

Will any self-respecting female take for a good coin the courtship of a man who comes and says he's better than Kazik from Friday due to the fact that Kazik drinks and beats and he doesn't? Is that enough? What kind of women is that?

We do not respect ourselves as Poles, as individuals and as a nation. As people, we frequently feel that something is wrong, and we effort to make up for it with shallow claims - "I besides deserve something from you, not only pensioners/children/parents/single mothers". But it doesn't go anywhere, just to conflicts and even deeper divisions, the same as any comparison to others, due to the fact that always individual will have better and individual worse.

Therefore, there will be no comments in my columns about what Tusk and his hustler are doing due to the fact that I do not see the request to descend to this level. This is not my point of reference, and what Poland should be according to God's perspective. And it is to her that we shall strive, with all our might, no substance the adversity we may encounter in this way.