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Who Can I Always Count On?



What do your parents mean to you? Who can you really count on? What would you like to thank them for and how? We have to face several difficulties throughout our life, but there are always people around us who we can count on no matter what happens.

I have always believed that it is worth taking advice from people who had been in a similar situation. I consider myself lucky because I had a wonderful childhood with parents who did everything they could for me and my brothers. We were dearly loved while growing up, we had a beautiful life and I will be grateful to them forever. I love my friends – usually I am the odd one out, the only Gypsy girl in every circle of friends but that has never been much of a subject.  

My parent's opinion and advice has always been important to me. I wanted them to be proud of me, that is why I decided to graduate from high school, learn a trade and – to my father's delight – obtain a driving license. I have taken their advice, I knew that they wanted what is best for me, they wanted to secure my future.

Today, I have it all, but it was not easy to get here. My father got ill and was hospitalized. When we first visited him in the hospital, I saw something in his eyes that I had never seen before: terror and despair. What will happen to the family? My father meant safety and peace for all of us, if he gets weak the whole family would collapse. He needed serious medical interventions and we prayed a lot for him. God helped him and the treatment was successful, he could finally come home. However, something had changed. Before, he was constantly working on something in the flat. When he got home, he did not move around his tools all day long, he did not work on his car, he just sat there and encouraged us that it was gonna be okay. That was how the first month went by. The next examination found that he cannot do any physical work, he cannot go back to work. What medicine can cure helplessness?

He was the breadwinner of the family, the only one who had a steady income and now, all of a sudden, he could not go to work. On that very day, I decided that I would do for the family whatever I could, I would help as soon as I finished my studies. Nothing was impossible. Despite medical advice, my father went back to work to provide for us. I am very proud of him. Things got back the way they were. Since then, I always keep in mind that there is a solution to every problem, you should never give up. Today, my two brothers work, too, they do their share. My father is a real role model and it feels amazing to have parents like my parents! I wish I were just half as good as they are! 

The blog entry was written by Szimonetta Horváth at Independent Theatre Hungary's Roma Heroes workshop.


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