On the occasion of the 27th anniversary of the declaration of Moldova’s Independence, IPN News Agency challenged young and older ones to write a letter to the country. Bellow you can see the letter of Ecaterina Bucovanu, a high school graduate from Razeni commune of Ialoveni district.
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I wrote to You, but see myself at the other end of the letter. We are a whole as I’m a part of You and You are a part of me. Being born in Moldova means more than belonging to Your people. Being born in Moldova means being born in the zodiac of longing. The Moldovans who left the country long for the homeland, while those who are at home long for those who left and sometimes for past times.
You have eternally crawled towards a sun that is rising to never set and each generation of Your children wants to get there together with You. Some of these tell the younger ones about this ideal. Others try to bring it closer and the spiritual and cultural unity is what keeps them close to each other. I think namely cultural unity will always keep You alive, always fighting, Moldova. As long as Your culture, traditions and folklore live and flourish, you will have one more chance.
You, Moldova, have a decreasing number of children who would stay near You in hard times and an increasing number of those who leave. But not all those who leave forget You… or maybe none of these really forget you. There are children who return to make You happy as they can and there are also others who, being far away, make You be proud of them and their successes.
I would like to tell You, dear Moldova, that every time I tell a foreigner about my roots, I’m not at all tempted to complain about You and first of all tell this how nice and dear to me You are, how special Your values are and how wonderful Your people are.
You should know that no matter where I am in the future, I would like to be able to do something for Your culture, to be able to develop Your traditions and language, to make Your spirit heard by what I and the values I learned from You and Your geniality born in Your people represent, by what I inherited from the particularities of Your being.
On Your 27th independence anniversary, I wish You to have a future that will meet Your great expectations, to get up and to never fall again. I hope You see only joy on the face of Your people because I think the next generations will enjoy high-quality education and medical assistance, high living standards at home and innovations in all the areas of activity.
I think those who leave and return, together with those who are far away, united by Your culture and the values of Your people, will be able to make the changes awaited by You, by us, by everyone.
Long live, Moldova!
Sincerely yours,
Ecaterina Bucovanu – a part of You.
