FLASH
Shkruar nga Kreshnik Spahiu
It's cheaper to buy a house in Spain than in Saranda or Vlora...
"There are no years to be lived twice; some are made only to be left behind." - Albert Camus once wrote, La Peste (The Plague)
Perhaps the year 2025 was truly meant to be left behind and perhaps forgotten. There are periods in a person's life that are not lived, but only endured.
1. Albania and Albanians experienced a dark year, full of drama and hopelessness. The year we spent was a black page in the eyes of millions of tourists who will never return:
in the garbage heaps,
on the fecal coast,
in the burning cauldrons,
on the streets with stray dogs and cats,
on highways with crazy drivers,
in the state without trains and without public transport,
in hotels with unreasonable prices,
in the dust that suffocates every living thing,
in cafes where farts are sold.
2. Albania and Albanians experienced a year full of mud and stains on their international image.
Every gang or group of international traffickers arrested in Europe or Latin America almost always had Albanian names among them. Albanians are so involved in crime that it seems as if we are a nation of 3 billion people, not 3 million.
Our image as Albanians has fallen so low that in dozens of Hollywood or Netflix films, the scripts feature Albanian drug traffickers as protagonists.
3. Albania and Albanians experienced a year of misery and poverty. Albanians had the lowest salaries in Europe this year, but with prices higher than in the EU.
The high food prices in supermarkets do not compare to the low prices of European supermarkets such as "Aldi", "Lidl", "Penny".
Real estate prices this year exceeded any market rate, making Tirana, Durrës, Vlora and several other cities unaffordable.
4. Albania and Albanians experienced a year without health and life security. The influx of emigration is not only due to unemployment, but also due to insecurity.
He enters Albanian hospitals alive and leaves dead.
At a time when thousands of Eastern European immigrants are returning to Poland, Hungary, Croatia, Romania, and Bulgaria because the West is going through a crisis, this is not happening with Albanians.
Even the few Albanian emigrants who have attempted to return have been disappointed, because their savings in Albania can no longer buy anything and are not enough to open a business.
It's cheaper to buy a house in Spain than in Saranda or Vlora.
5. Albania and Albanians experienced another great disappointment with their vote.
Thousands of Albanians voted for the socialists, but within a few months they realized that there was no water in their taps, while the socialists were drinking French wine from 1913, at 33 thousand euros a bottle, the year Albania was divided.
The disappointment does not come from two or three people, but from the entire government, which is not reflecting even after hundreds of arrests.
The year 2025 will be remembered as the year of centuries-old corruption, with figures that even foreigners could not have imagined.
6. The past year was also shameful for Kosovo, which for 11 months failed to form either a parliament or a government.
Not even during the Serbian occupation, when Rugova convened the Assembly illegally, did it happen that the parliament failed 63 times to elect a president or prime minister.
Hatred, anger, espionage, and selfishness drove Kosovo and Albania further apart than ever before.
May the bad year of those who conceived the "Kosovar nation" against the Albanian one never come back for Albanians.
Many Albanians have lost relatives.
Many Albanians lost their jobs or businesses.
Many Albanians lost hope.
God created memory and forgetfulness in one day.
Maybe the year we left behind should be forgotten...
May I never see Albania and Albanians like in 2025.
Gabriel García Márquez wrote in One Hundred Years of Solitude:
"The past is a burden that must be left behind, otherwise the future finds no place to come."
Ia kam lene pergjigjen ne nje dalje tjeter. Besoj se do te shpjegohet edhe vete Kreshniku