"Your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy"

We sat down around the table, eating our pasta bolognesa, dipping our pita bread into lebanese style chickpeas, eating portuguese chourico with bread from the french bakery, while drinking Barack - peach liquor from Hungary.

We live in a muslim city, and some say we live in a western style.

It doesnt matter to me. We live respecting each other, not enforcing realities or stereotypes as Truth.

I like to think that we evaluate others and ourselves based on what we can build, no matter what is our faith, citizenship, gender or hair's color. It is far more important, than what we can destroy.

We dont look to Obama as a Messiah, or a saviour that will change the world today. His speech yesterday night did not stop someone dying from starvation, or someone being killed at that same exact time.

But it will smooth some bruises and, most of all, it will bring us HOPE.

Hope... that the word will spread and that we will accept the present as the only time it matters.

We can no longer discuss the past, because it is too full with blood, with hate, with envy and greed, just to name a few.
We can no longer foresee the Future as if we are trying to decide who will win the battle, and on which side we want to be.
We can no longer wait for someone else to be responsible for our own successes or failures.

We can only act NOW.
Each one of us.
Bit by bit.