The narrative explores the resilience of the human spirit, emphasizing its power to shape individuals amidst life's challenges. It highlights how, regardless of external circumstances like storms and harsh weather, inner strength and determination prevail, illustrating a profound connection between personal growth and adversity.
Exploring the complexities of cultural understanding, the narrative features Mrs. Grosz, who expresses her intrigue and confusion about the German people to Mr. Baródin. Their conversation delves into the nuances of identity, history, and perception, revealing deeper themes of connection and misunderstanding between different cultures. As they navigate their dialogue, the book invites readers to reflect on the broader implications of societal mysteries and the quest for comprehension in a diverse world.
The narrative explores the perilous decline of human connection, highlighting the risks of loneliness that threaten the essence of humanity. As relationships fray and isolation increases, the story delves into the consequences of this emotional detachment, suggesting that the very fabric of life and community is at risk of unraveling. The urgency of rekindling connections is emphasized, as the characters navigate a world where meaningful interactions are fading away.
Wisdom begins with defining terms and is not merely taught but felt and acted upon. It exists quietly within thoughts, influencing reality through vibrations. Thoughts shape knowledge, philosophy, and existence, bridging the zeitgeist and human spirit. Ultimately, our thoughts define us, emphasizing the importance of being mindful of the inner melody of life.
If force is equal to right, nations will exhaust each other and will finally find the lasting peace in the big grave that covers the atrocities of violence with their creators. Therefore, victory by force on an unlawful way cannot compromise or nullify the meaning of rights got on a lawful way. (Immanuel Kant) The situation had further deteriorated and the front of resistance against the whites and the occupational forces had further hardened in the black population. The number of casualties went up from week to week. Koevoet had not changed its rude and brutal behaviour against the people. Paramilitary squads mowed down the kraals with their heavy Casspirs, if there was a suspicion of a hiding Swapo-fighter. Since koevoet squads consisted mainly of black recruits, the tortures, deportations and killings of their brothers and sisters happened every day. Old people became physically so weak that they passed away before the time, this mostly because of starvation and infectious diseases. Old people were maltreated by their sons in koevoet, because they did not speak badly or kept quiet about the sons and daughters who left the kraal and went into exile to take part in the liberation struggle. Koevoet continued the nightly raids inconsiderately toward the patients and frightened the sleeping people and mothers with their children on the concrete passage in front of the outpatient department building. The distracted people had to show their IDs. Koevoet beat men who had no ID. “The soul is the color of your thoughts. Our life is what our thinking makes it. The best way to get revenge: Do not reward like with like. The ability to live happily comes from a power inherent in the soul. Despair inevitably afflicts those whose souls are out of balance. If you knew the source of human opinions and interests, you would cease to seek people's applause and praise.” (Marc Aurel) It is the roots from which the thought grows, it is the soil that supports and nourishes the roots.
It was between eleven and twelve o’clock. I had started the operation when a huge detonation occurred. The floor of the theatre room was shaking and the instrument nurse got shocked that the scalpel fell from her hand in my hand and had cut my middle finger. Dr Lizette fell over with the stool. She was severely shocked when she came up with a pale face. The instruments had slipped around on the moving instruments table that the nurse had to put them back in place. I spread some brown solution for disinfection on the wound and changed the gloves and continued the operation. The middle foot were cut off through the lower ankle joint and the large tarsal bones were covered with soft tissue flaps which were sutured together over the short foot stump. The huge detonation had shaken the bones of the people not only in the theatre building, but in the whole hospital. It was my concern that the impact could have taken the life of many people. I read the fear in the eyes of the people in the theatre room. The book gives insight into life and the medical work. It demonstrates the exercises of learning and work under extreme conditions by understanding the people in need and in evaluating the challenges by fulfilling the responsibilities and tasks. To put the good intentions into practical perspectives, education must improve to strengthen the willpower for enhancing the capability and skills in the work performance. The biggest goal is humanity. To reach this goal, the prerequisites are personal humbleness, true honesty, tolerance, dedication, passion and determination in commitments and high ethics in the performance. The principles comprise mutual respect and understanding, the willingness to help people in need and to educate children to the best level, and to keep up the values of humanity, which has to be praised and practised sincerely from generation to generation. Everybody is responsible to act accordingly that life maintains the values in its deeply rooted meaning.
Honesty is a facet of moral character that connotes positive and virtuous attributes such as integrity, truthfulness, straightforwardness, including straightforwardness of conduct, along with the absence of lying, cheating, theft, etc. Honesty also involves being trustworthy, loyal, fair, and sincere. “Also we doctors are over-challenged and over-burdened, but war does not care about human issues and needs, because war is the destroyer of civilization and mankind. War is the devil who swallows the people and its children with the ruthlessness of the laws of likelihood. War psychology is not more than a grimace of disgust and destruction that has nothing in common with a psychology of human reasonableness with the great and fundamental values of mankind. It is the schizophrenia in the sick brains of our time and particularly in the moral-diverted brains of the loudmouthed politicians who don’t know what the psychology stands for.” “The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. Think big anyway.” (Oscar Wilde) The greatest truth is covered by humbleness and honesty. It saves eventually the human being. The minimum of honesty is to stand up for who you are. Don’t be afraid, when people start shouting at you and will beat you. It is the lack of knowledge and understanding that you like to be humble and straightforward on the path of thinking and doing things on the way of your life.
Everyone was hopeful that people of Namibia would go the solidly paved way into a promising future longed-for after the many years of colonialism, discrimination and oppression. The book gives insight into life and the medical work. It demonstrates the exercises of learning and hard work by understanding the people in need and for re-evaluating the challenges in fulfilling the responsibilities and tasks by meeting their expectations. To put the good intentions into practical perspectives, education must improve to strengthen the willpower for enhancing the capability and skills and the standard of work performances considerably. The prerequisites remain, which is humbleness, honesty, respect and hard work to elevate the attitude in assessing the social problems related to freedom, peace, equality and justice. The story likes to motivate the young generation in learning to understand the situation in depth by considering and analyzing the facts. It is of great importance to become a citizen by taking part in the process of building and consolidating the nation to an educated, just and responsibility bearing nation in keeping up and defending the fundamental values of humanity. The biggest goal is true humanity. To reach this goal, the prerequisites are personal modesty, true honesty, tolerance, dedication, passion and determination in social commitments and high ethics in the performance. The principles comprise mutual respect and understanding, the willingness to help people in need and to educate children to the best level, and to keep and cultivate the values of humanity, which has to be praised and practiced from generation to generation. Everybody is responsible to act accordingly that life maintains its deeply rooted meaning.
Mrs. Lydia Grosz: “The Germans have remained a mystery to me. They are educated and hard working, have produced a Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, a Goethe, Schiller, and Lessing, but they have not understood the Faust, the Bell, or the Nathan. Take the ring parable in Nathan. It's the legacy of tolerance and justice. The punch line comes in the question of which son is right. Nathan says the right ring is not demonstrable, almost as unknowable as the right faith is. The father had the copies made with the intention that the rings are indistinguishable. That is the lesson we have to draw from Nathan: the commandment to tolerance and magnanimity. The hubris of the Nazis has gone severely out of hand, as if there were only Germans who have “culture and the right faith.„ Boris: “For their mistakes and assessments, German people have been severely punished.” Mrs. Grosz: "I agree with you, because many good Germans were also met terribly.” Ünett appreciated the understanding and affection by her teacher Adele Bardenbrecht that stabilized her personality and gave her trust. The encounter brought the deeper consensus regarding the fundamental problems and the real values in life. They became friends and shared their experiences, which included the little mongoloid Simon as well. The friendship lasted through the life of both like a red thread and became the cornerstone and foundation of practiced humanity.
It is the breath of the memory of a great love that you gave in an infinite way. Yes, it was a wonderful journey through the years, through the days. Great was the moment without the last question of where to go and why. Life goes into trains, in the counting of the trains you are having a hard time, especially when your heart is racing, when the love gives you more pain, that you lose your orientation and your sight and senses slip away and you are disturbed in the meantime. What will come, you have guessed it, it takes your strength and pushes you to the ground, as if it were the forest, the young, to clear, which is only growing with its trunks, the thin with the delicate bark and the root branches that begin to grasp in a ground that looks friendly towards you. It stays with you, the last breath, it's for you. My last eyelid will envelop you with the mantle of joy and longing. See that it is worn and has the patches of pain and loneliness on the sleeves. What then can arise anew, that is something completely different, whose name nobody knows, and whose form from the unformed no one suspects and no one draws. That's the way it is, and that's the way it will be: the idea is great and powerful, we can not stand against it, but we are carried far to it. It is a flight that does not stop after us. Pull the splinter out of my breath and hold it tight, untie the fetter from your breath, so that we can breathe and taste some of the freedom in the lungs. Now the language lies perfected or unfinished in the gone-away, as if it sleeps for eternity in silence with the good heart, who now silently carries the past into the future and no longer thinks of returning to earth. It is imaginable that the friend of the children and the elderly watches out of the space of great freedom for what the people down here are trying to understand and often contradict each other.