The floods

A country shows what kind of country it is in difficult times. The same goes for people. Especially when a person gets into a difficult situation and no one would benefit from him, so no one sees the point in helping him. I have played in this movie and I know what it is like. But today we will talk about the state, not about personal relationships. And yet, the state, like a stepmother or a loving parent, raises bad and good children. Maybe it all depends on it.

Now I look at the aftermath of the devastating floods in Spain and wonder what if...

Well, there's no point in asking and wondering. It's clear. The last time I finally decided and uttered those terrible words: "I'm leaving", was during the last disaster in the country.
Indifference. And a great deal of inactivity. That's what people in distress got back then.
People in the burned villages this summer, especially in one of them, were left alone. The journalists made a big mistake, to televise crying people who were crying because the firemen did not try to help them save their houses or their animals. They hadn't even warned them with a disaster alert on the phones because "it all happened so fast" and no one knew what to do.

They were just running, together with their animals, here and there, carrying valuable things, an old woman was carrying two rifles in her hands, others were carrying bags, a young woman was running along with her horse in the square... Everything was chaos. Who will go to evacuate the residents of the nursing home? Of course, the local people, who else. Some woman had done it.
Do you understand what that means? It is - people have to do everything by themselves, there is no one to help them in every situation.

Today I watched a video of how in Spain firefighters rescue a woman with her dog and cats by helicopter.
I cried.
There are no helicopters in Bulgaria. Only the military have helicopters, and during the fires this year, firefighters from various European countries came to help, because if things were left to the state, the country would simply burn.
Firefighters are using antiquated equipment, cars that now only move on a prayer, they can't get anywhere if they have to climb into forest terrain because they just can't. As far as I understand, people's clothing is second hand because it is very expensive and the state cannot afford a new one. Just as it cannot afford new fire engines, or new trains, or new buses and trolleys in public transport.

As it also cannot afford to buy ambulances, even second-hand ones, nor to equip them. Therefore, the population takes up this task - to collect funds, to buy equipment for hospitals, because the state is simply absent, as usual, when it comes to vital things. The president organizes a Christmas concert every year in which the ordinary poor population is asked to donate money for the treatment of children in need, because otherwise there is no way for these children to be treated. As they wrote well last year - at the Christmas concert we celebrate the absence of the state, as always. And usually those lucky children, who are given the opportunity to be treated, do so abroad, because there is no such opportunity in Bulgaria. Bulgaria does not have the necessary equipment, nor do these specialists exist.

Such a thing exists in neighboring Turkey, our five-century enslaver, from whom we have been "liberated" only to be enslaved again and sink even deeper than we were before.
Just recently we commented with an acquaintance that this liberation was not a good move at all, since we fell into the clutches of communism, which took us centuries back and buried us so deep that for nearly a century we cannot get out of the hole.
We no longer have anything, we are capable of nothing. The state is falling apart.

Oh wait, there's money. For the seventh early parliamentary elections within three and a half years.
But there is no humanity. And there is no money for the important and human things. And people are the same. Like the state. How can a doctor abandon you as a patient, see that you are not well, but not want to examine you. How can a firefighter watch your house burn and not want to help you. How can you be told on the emergency telephone of the water supply company that technicians came to the field, fixed the damage and you have water, when you don't, you don't have water in the following days either, and technicians to repair the damage did not come at all...

A young family of doctors collected the money from their wedding to donate it to the neonatology department of the hospital where they work, so that necessary equipment can be purchased. The doctors in the ward were so happy that they hoped these people would "set an example for others". Other people should also donate money, other people, people from the people should do the work of the state, build the state, because there is no state.
Oh, don't think I'm being dramatic, it's just the moment you see you're left alone. To die. Pure and simple. No complications. Just to die.

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The pictures I used here, thank God, are not of floods. These are just the salt pans in Pomorie. This year, thank God, there were no major complications from floods like previous years where I am sure the affected families are still suffering because the state is not doing anything, there is simply no state. We can only pray that calamities do not befall us because that will be the end.

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	Soul's Detour is a project started by me years ago when I had a blog about historical and not so popular tourist destinations in Eastern Belgium, West Germany and Luxembourg. Nowadays, this blog no longer exists, but I'm still here - passionate about architecture, art and mysteries and eager to share my discoveries and point of view with you.

Personally, I am a sensitive soul with a strong sense of justice.
Traveling and photography are my greatest passions.
Sounds trivial to you?
No, it's not trivial. Because I still love to travel to not so famous destinations.🗺️
Of course, the current situation does not allow me to do this, but I still find a way to satisfy my hunger for knowledge, new places, beauty and art.
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