From 8fcd5369775dcb4b825f6728c9df93369539a853 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matěj Cepl Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 22:47:45 +0200 Subject: Initial rewrite of posts for pelican --- brnenske-premitani.rst | 77 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 77 insertions(+) create mode 100644 brnenske-premitani.rst (limited to 'brnenske-premitani.rst') diff --git a/brnenske-premitani.rst b/brnenske-premitani.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..eb7e3ec --- /dev/null +++ b/brnenske-premitani.rst @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@ +Thoughts in the night in Brno +############################# + +:date: 2006-10-15T00:00:00 +:category: faith + +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 provázku'' 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. -- cgit