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21 August 1968

Jesus 2010

Kepi Blanc

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The End

Hi,
welcome to my personal web page - you caught me Down Under in Wilsons Promontory National park on a walking track through the  wilderness and beauty of an Australian coast.
No cars, no shops, no electricity - no stress. I wish you could experience that tranquility, the beautiful beaches washed by the Pacific Ocean and bright, crystal clear stars at night. 
But even on the brightest beach I often picture myself flying an airplane on the far away hills ...

I asked myself so many times - how did you get here? From a small picturesque town called Pribor in the Czech Republic (does it ring a bell? - yes, Sigmund Freud was born there) to Melbourne? I was nearly forty when me, my wife and two children crossed the Austrian border into the world of freedom and joined the army of migrants. 

Eleven months in Austria and I never thanked the Austrian people for their hospitality - so maybe now  is an opportunity. I remember one day in Austria - it was before Christmas and we went to Vienna and parked the car in the underground parking downtown. We asked a man, who parked his car next to us, how to get the parking ticket (everything was new to us in that world). He explained it to us and we left. When we got back an envelope was on the windscreen with a Christmas Card wishing us a Merry Christmas and ... "I forgot to tell you that the parking is quite expensive here" with two hundred Shillings enclosed. Signed as "a Viener". We were all moved by the gesture of somebody to whom we were complete strangers. We never met him again, we never saw him again but he will stay in our hearts forever - and so will the beautiful country under the mighty Alps with so many charms and nice people. 

During our stay in Austria I was torn apart by the situation in my homeland - the Velvet Revolution! Something I was waiting for for twenty years, then I lost hope and left my country for the sake of our children - and now, four months later the Berlin Wall, the icon of the cold war, crumbled to nonexistence. I wanted to cry, to shout, to explain to everybody that this is something I was waiting for all my life, something I lived for, it's not fair that it's happening without me! But few people (if any at all) were listening. Now I was on the road but all of the sudden I felt that there is no purpose of it, no destination... Go back? That was an option, but how many times in the Czech history the situation changed from sunny face to dark and back again? Apart from it, our flat has been taken and without a place to go to, we decided to follow the Sun.

Eleven months later we got off the plane in Melbourne and started new life under the stars of Southern Cross "Down Under". Well, not everything was smooth, but it's better now, we stand on our own feet, we know our place in the society and we learned what we would never learned at home - that there is no place like home. Our lives have changed so much! New language, new jobs, new culture - would I have enough courage to do it again? Do not think this way - look ahead. As Anthony Robbins said: "Focus in life on what you want not what  you don't want."

Once, maybe in my future life, I'll write a book. It will be about a family which was about to be the greatest on Earth. About the greatest children and the greatest dreams and the greatest expectations that family had, but they thought the homeland is not great enough to fulfil their great dreams. They forgot it's not the homeland that make the dreams come true, it's the people themselves. But is there anybody interested in such a book? There seem to be more writers than readers in today's world. So, for now, I created a web site instead.