If I would not go to concerts… (For non-Hungarian
friends: According to the latest from our govt, the current rules, for
organizing cultural events (concerts, theater plays etc) are only allowed up to
500 persons at an open-air venue... all the while sports events can be
organized without any restrictions. When the spokesperson was asked why is this
discrimination, the answer was, because people can drink in concerts and then
cannot behave and keep distance. Below there are a few Hungarian poets/poems,
writers and songs and places are mentioned believe me- they are all very worth
of knowing).
If I would not go to concerts, I wouldn’t only a few
glasses of cider short (which I rarely drink anyway), but I would be poorer for
not knowing some poems, that I find extremely important now, even though as a
poem reader I had seen a fair share of the, I wouldn’t know to recite from the
poem of Pilinszky „Don1t be afraid” or Ferenc Szemlér’s „If you would be caring for me”. Not to
mention Radnoti’s „Enchanting” (Okay, I WOULD know that, but let me tell you,
it is much better sung. If I would not go to concerts, I would long forgotten
that one of the last poems of Radnoti’s can be read in a different way, I would
not know his wife’s Journal.
If I wouldn’t go to concerts I wouldn’t’ know a
lot of beutiful places, the Castles of Szigliget, Kőszeg, I would have never
seen Ráckeve, Alsbogát, Kapolcs, Tusnádfürdő, and a bunch of other, very
special places. If I would not go to concerts, I would not read the books of
Krisztiám Grecso, I would not know how to put together a photobook, and I would
not know what happiness is being truly wet by a summer rain, and sing from the
top of your voice „may the rain was our hearts to one”…
If I wouldn’t go to concerts, I would be short of
quite a few friends. I wouldn’t know how hard can a special needs girl hug, I
wouldn’t know how much I can miss her sister too).
I would not know the
feeling that they save my place in the front row for me, I would not know how a
cello and a violin sounds in a rock band. If I would not go to concerts I would
not smile on someone’s posts on Facebook, or would not think about the things
another shares. If I would not go to concerts I would not know, that one does
not only go there for the music, but for the friends.
If I would not go to concerts I would not know what
love is. If I would not go to concerts I would be still sitting home, lonely,
and feel sorry for myself. I would not know how it feels, when someone cares
for you, takes care of you, loves you.
I admit, I’ve never been to a football game, and I am
sure there are positive things there, for those who do go, but I find it really
sad, that all I got from going to concerts in the last few years, is dismissed
with a shrug, because in concerts „alcohol can be drunk”.
I’ve never went to a concert to drink, and I
would be going just as happy if, from now on, you could get only water in these
places.
Most of the pictures were taken by
Norbert Varga, at a bunch of different places, I am grateful for everyone who
are in the pictures, and for those also who, this time were left out, but they
are still in my heart.
PS: If I wouldn’t go to concerts, I
would not have planted flowers this year either. Just sayin’.
