Since the beginning of time there has
been a conflict between men, lions, dogs and roosters that always ends after one
side loses its strength. There is one conflict that never ends - the one between
good and evil. Man discovered it ages ago, probably out of boredom. People liked
it so much that they nurtured it to this very day. There are people who don't
want the rest of the world to know they take part in it. Those are the people
from the shadow. Sometimes they are just ordinary people, people who we know and
the ones we don't know, and sometimes powerful men who have never been seen,
living legends only heard of, concealed from the world in their kingdom of good
or evil. They lurk quietly under the moonlight, think, judge, observe. And all
of them, more or less, create the future of our civilization. We often wonder
how and why something happened, who changed our lives, our future. Maybe it's
someone from your neighbourhood, someone you wake up with, someone you often
went out with to the nearest café, or maybe someone you have never met but
someone who wanted to know everything about you. People from the shadow see and
hear all and their main occupation is to preserve the existence of good and evil
at any cost, even if they lose their lives over it. They easily reach their aim
by passing through when we are sound asleep but we are the ones who give them
power by feeding them with our sincere wishes and secrets. We work, they just
take credit for our labour, and without a sound, they make decisions about our
insignificant lives. People from the shadow lurk into our lives, into our
dreams. Those bad ones wait patiently for our first false move like snakes at
the bottom of the ocean, then they silently emerge and pull us to the bottom, to
their kingdom of darkness. The good ones illuminate the path for us, and we
think it has been a stroke of luck. They say that happiness is only for the
brave; I say that it is both for the brave and the wise. It's sad that more and
more people are turning bad. Even the sun started running away to avoid their
enormous shadow. Even the good ones, who until recently have helped the
hard-workers achieve more, started to work. It's probably the only thing they
have left. It's high time we ran away from boredom. Otherwise, we are going to
become a part of the shadow.
People from the shadow, author Suzana Stojanović,
02.17.2007.
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Od početka sveta postoje borbe ljudi, lavova,
pasa, petlova i one se uvek jednom završe kada jedna strana poklekne. Postoji
jedna borba koja se nikada ne završava. Borba dobra i zla. Izmislio je čovek
nekada davno, valjda ne znajući šta da radi od dosade. Ova borba se toliko
dopala ljudima da su je negovali do dana današnjeg. Postoje ljudi koji ne žele
da svet zna da učestvuju u ovoj borbi. Ljudi iz senke. To su ponekad naizgled
sasvim obični vidljivi ljudi, poznati i nepoznati, a ponekad moćnici koje niko
nikada nije video, žive legende o kojima je samo slušao, sakriveni od sveta u
svom carstvu dobra ili zla. Šunjaju se bešumno po mesečini, mudruju, vagaju,
posmatraju. I svi oni, više ili manje kroje budućnost civilizacije. Često se
pitamo kako i zašto se nešto desilo, ko je promenio naš život, našu budućnost.
Možda je to neko iz vašeg komšiluka, možda neko sa kim se budite, možda neko sa
kim ste često odlazili do najbližeg kafea, a možda neko koga nikada niste sreli
a on je hteo da zna sve o vama. Ljudi iz senke sve čuju i sve vide i njihovo
glavno zanimanje je da sačuvaju dobro ili zlo po bilo koju cenu, makar ih to
stajalo života. Oni lako dolaze do svog cilja, prolaze pored našeg čvrstog sna i
mi im dajemo oružje, mi ih hranimo svojim iskrenim željama i tajnama. Mi radimo,
oni samo ubiru plodove našega rada i bez glasa odlučuju o našim malim životima.
Ljudi iz senke bešumno se ušunjaju u naš život, u naše snove. Oni loši poput
zmija na dnu okeana strpljivo čekaju naš prvi pogrešan korak, onda tiho
isplivaju i odvuku nas do dna, do njihovog mračnog carstva. Oni dobri osvetle
nam stazu, a mi mislimo da je to bila samo puka sreća. Kažu da sreća prati samo
hrabre a ja bih rekla da sreća prati hrabre i mudre. Žalosno je što je sve više
loših ljudi. Čak je i Sunce počelo da beži od njihove ogromne senke. Oni dobri,
koji su do nedavno pomagali vrednima da postignu što više, čak su i oni počeli
da rade. Valjda im je to jedino preostalo oružje. Došlo je krajnje vreme da
bežimo od dosade. U suprotnom postaćemo deo senke.
Ljudi iz
senke, autor Suzana Stojanović, 17.02.2007.
