FLASH
Shkruar nga Ermal Peçi
There are no winners in this story. There are only losers, and the biggest losers are three children who today don't need noise, but silence. Not big words, but small, consistent actions.
In this our Albania you can write endlessly about the problems that plague it. But today I chose to focus on a serious case in Durrës. Three minor children, found alone in an apartment. Three small lives that do not know what guilt is, but that feel insecurity very early. They feel fear, emptiness and daily trauma, silent wounds that leave deep marks on their newly started lives.
This is not just an event. It is a symptom. A strong alarm about the way the family, society and the state are abandoning children, even when the parents are still alive. It is a wake-up call about what is happening to those who are called the future of this country.
Essentially, this is the story of a broken family, where the conflict of the adults has taken precedence over the needs of the children. The husband and wife, each immersed in their own personal, economic, emotional or moral struggles, have shifted attention from those who should have been the absolute center. The children.
When a family breaks up badly, a silent tragedy occurs. Children cease to be the goal and become an argument, an excuse, a moral weapon about who is to blame, and in the end, as always, they suffer the collateral damage, whether physical or emotional.
The father is mentioned as a monthly figure. The mother as a tired figure between work, poverty and pressure. Relatives as parties to the conflict. In this story, everyone has their own version of the truth, but no one speaks from the child's perspective. No one asks how a child who grows up amidst deprivation, tension and uncertainty feels. No one asks what impression it leaves of feeling like a burden, not a priority, that it is your fault in a situation where the responsibility lies elsewhere.
These children don't need public scapegoats. They need stability. Presence. Emotional security. A hand that holds them tight, not two hands that pull in opposite directions.
This is where our responsibility as a society comes in, but also the responsibility of institutions. Every time a family falls to this point, it's not just that family that has failed. The social network that should have caught this case earlier has failed.
The state often comes after the fact. Society often settles for moral judgment, but children don't grow up with judgments. They grow up with care, with constant presence, and with the feeling that someone is watching and protecting them.
There are no winners in this story. There are only losers, and the biggest losers are three children who today do not need noise, but silence. Not big words, but small and consistent actions. Not promises, but security.
If we fail to understand this, we risk repeating this story endlessly. With different names. With different cities, but always with the same victims, the innocent children.
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