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+Thoughts in the night in Brno
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+:date: 2006-10-15T00:00:00
+:category: faith
+:tags: Brno, humility, desertstream
+
+The title is (as usual) totally meaningless, just that I am sitting in
+the hotel room in Brno, while being on the orientation training for Red
+Hat and I am thinking about what to write here.
+
+Long time went away since I wrote the previous paragraph, but now its
+existence comes handy, so I will totally shamelessly misuse it for my
+purposes.
+
+These are the thoughts which went to me when I was in Brno for my
+official interview with Red Hat and which then continued in the
+following weeks when I begun to work for them. Of course my expectations
+from Brno were largely influenced by the experience of my father’s ten
+years in Brno. However, after ten years spent in the Boston area (and
+a year in San Francisco, many years before that), outside of Prague,
+I could see that there is a lot of life even in the areas which are not
+that beautiful as Prague and even that there are more important things
+in life then living in the most beautiful city in the world (which among
+other cities certainly includes Prague, but I just couldn’t include
+Boston there). I found out that working the job I like, having friends,
+etc. is actually much more important than living in Prague. I know that
+for the most of you this conclusion seems to be pretty banal, but
+flip-side of living in Prague, is that one gets really hooked on its
+beauty and is not able to imagine life behind its borders. So I believe
+I was coming into Brno with at least slightly more open eyes than could
+be expected given my genealogy.
+
+I was thinking then also about my accountability interviews with Chi-Ray
+Chien. One of the most important discoveries in my first years of the
+Living Waters was to really accept in the depths of my heart, that I am
+one of the 250,000 of students in the Boston area and not much more
+else. And that it is totally OK to be like that. That I don’t have to be
+(and I don’t have to pretend to be) the most exceptional of all scholars
+who were walking the face of the Earth. If I will be the best Matěj Cepl
+I manage to be and if I stay focused on this goal, then everything is
+all right.
+
+After some thinking about what is interesting in Brno and what not,
+I saw very clearly that it is actually absolutely and totally the same
+as me with being just one of many many students in the Boston. If the
+citizens of Brno (and I think, it relates more to the affluent and
+influential members of the Brno community—who made my father crazy just
+when he hears the sound of the name of the city), so if the citizens of
+Brno humbly accept in their hearts the fact, that Brno is one of many (I
+don’t know, fifty?) half-million cities in the Europe and nothing more,
+than they could suddenly taste freedom in this attitude. And of course,
+it doesn’t mean that they shouldn’t use all their effort to be the best
+Brno they manage to be. It doesn’t mean that I would have anything
+against “Husa na provázkur” or abundant supply of culture in Brno per
+se. Of course, the question arises who is paying for it and whether it
+is not paid from the state money which could be used better in something
+else than in paying oversupply of theaters, but that’s different
+question. When I am saying that they should accept the fact, that they
+are nothing more than one of many half-million cities in Europe, it
+means nothing about their effort to be the best half-million city in
+Europe (whatever it means).
+
+And yet another thought came immediately after that. That we people of
+Prague are in the exactly same situation. Unless we accept the fact that
+we are one of many many million-plus cities in Europe, and nothing more,
+then we are same idiots we love to hate on people from Brno. Yeah, it
+happens, that it is probably one of the most beautiful cities
+architecturally in the world, but what does it mean for my life in
+Prague else then number of tourists who come here? Yes, I am living in
+the very center of Prague and working five minutes walk from home (so
+far, we will have to move soon), but what does it mean for things
+I found in Boston to be more important for life like my wife and
+children, my job, my culture, my church, my calling and ministry in
+life? Yes, I like it here (and there is nothing wrong with that), but
+necessary answer to the previous question is that nothing fundamental
+would change if I had all these things somewhere in the center of
+Africa.