On a cold holiday morning, while the city is still humming, a small window opens and a kind lady gives me change for the daily newspaper I bought. The usual offer at the kiosk. Daily newspapers, political weeklies, tabloids, children's magazines... Something, however, is different than usual. Colorful front pages and special New Year's editions. Yearly horoscope, love horoscope, business horoscope... To each according to his interest. Everything is there. It is important, I guess, for a person to believe in what the stars bring him and to be interested in what will happen to him. It's nice to read at the beginning of the year that you are smiling about advancement in work, a trip to a distant tourist paradise and a stable love relationship. And then, I guess, we should just let the stars sprinkle us with their magical dust.
When I was asked if anyone is buying it, the frostbitten lady at the market replied with a surprised look which, I guess, means: "You're still asking" and hurriedly slammed the window shut. I leaned over to ask her something else, but I saw that she was already reading the special edition - "What's in store for the twins in 2012" with black-rimmed glasses on the tip of her nose.
Leaving with the daily newspaper under my arm, I realize that reading the horoscope is actually a perfect distraction on days when we think about how we will get through the famous January when our tables are exposed to the gaze of guests, and the school holidays lure children to the snow where entertainment is obscenely expensive. You also have to pay for electricity, eat even when you eat sarma and Russian salad left over from the holidays. You have to live. That's why the horoscope is such a good "therapy" for all those who can't go to the Alps to ski, or to the SPA to rest their suffering souls, for those who don't know how they're going to pay the bills...
It is much more dangerous when we read the daily information as a horoscope than an ordinary horoscope full of chance encounters, confrontations with bosses and unplanned trips. You must be wondering how this is possible. Easy. Most of them practice this kind of information consumption. Like a horoscope. Open the newspaper and find out that the price of electricity will go up. And it never occurs to you that you should ask yourself about it. That someone who decides about it should take into account the social aspect of that price increase. And you shrug your shoulders and turn a new page. I guess you don't look at the ink that says someone will take a few more coins out of your already shallow pocket without a good explanation. Or, for example, you read in the city chronicle how your favorite park where you grew up and where your children play will be turned into a residential and commercial space. And you don't think to go to a public hearing in the local community that you pass by every day and tell them that you don't like the idea. You have the right to parking, clean air, some greenery and space for your children. You are a taxpayer. You have every right to say what you don't like and even try to influence your own life.
There are many such examples. Except we're not divided into 12 zodiac signs. There are many more groups and subgroups. One of the most numerous "signs" in this life horoscope of ours are pensioners. They, for example, look for what the "horoscope" says about their pensions - when they will be available, whether they will be increased, and occasionally they can read in the horoscope that there will be lambs in installments. After that, the horoscope for the next month unmistakably indicates - there will be an election. We also have a very widespread "zodiac sign" employed in the state administration. In the press, they are very interested in whether they will receive holiday pay and winter leave, and what will happen to their relevant minister. And period. Then we have the "zodiac sign" that is rapidly increasing - the unemployed. Well, they track different things. From sports pages, to get ready for the bookmaker, to classified ads. They gave up on the advertisement of the Employment Service a long time ago. Especially if they don't have a party card. In that case, the horoscope is not in their favor. A special group are those who are on permanent or occasional strike. Well, they carefully read the articles - reports, from their protests in the newspapers. And they are waiting for the horoscope to announce that a new investor has appeared in the constellation. And - those from the Government are also waiting for that. If the stars coincide and some new customer of KAP, Željezara, one of the hotels on the coast arrives, from the constellation of Cancer...
A smaller but important group are politicians. And deserving managers. They are happy to read about themselves in the newspapers, with a touch of cynicism because their stars are so well placed that no constellation can disturb their sign that determines money or career. They are also happy to read about others and with the vision of true astrologers make decisive moves tomorrow. This group has one sub-group, namely politicians with the label criminal. Although they read newspapers less, because the position of the planets in their birth chart has given them the power of prediction - they know what will appear in the newspaper. They are also untouchable and live in a special universe, so the horoscope for ordinary mortals may not be very suitable for them.
Afterwards, it usually causes a solar eclipse for everyone, but - that's for humans too. That's our horoscope.
That's how Montenegro spent two decades. With lots of mismatched stars and lots of eclipses. She carried a lot of ugly things over her shoulders. Even more head turning from those same ugly pictures. Understanding reality as a horoscope - what the stars have decided will happen to us.
No, what we deserve will happen to us. What we earned and what we let happen to us.
New day New luck. New year - new chance. The year 2012 should be the year in which the information read in the newspaper will serve citizens to create their own attitude and act on it. These are all units of measurement of our standard. Not a horoscope. He's crazy.
In order to live in a different, more innovative, more beautiful, more modern and happier Montenegro, we need much more than that. Strength, will, knowledge... above all.
Happy Christmas. Happy New Year. Happy different Montenegro.
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