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A cursed year to forget
2025-12-31 13:43:14 / IDE
"There are no years to be lived twice; some are made only to be left behind."
— Albert Camus once wrote, La Peste (The Plague)
Perhaps the year 2025 was truly made to be left behind and perhaps to be forgotten.
There are periods in human life that are not lived, but only endured.
1. Albania and Albanians experienced a dark year, full of drama and without hope.
The year we spent was a black page in the eyes of millions of tourists who will never return:
in the piles of garbage,
on the coast with feces,
in the burning bins,
on the streets with stray dogs and cats,
on the highways with crazy drivers,
in the country without trains and without public transport,
in hotels with illogical prices,
in the dust that suffocates every living thing,
in cafes where farts are sold.
2. Albania and Albanians experienced a year full of mud and stains on the international image.
Every gang or group of international traffickers that was arrested in Europe or Latin America almost always had Albanian names among them. Albanians have been so involved in crime that it seems as if we are a people of 3 billion inhabitants and not 3 million.
Our image as Albanians has fallen so low that in dozens of Hollywood or Netflix films, the scripts have Albanian drug traffickers as protagonists.
3. Albania and Albanians experienced a year of misery and poverty. Albanians had the lowest salaries in Europe this year, but with higher prices than in the EU.
The high prices of food in supermarkets do not compare to the low prices of European supermarkets such as "Aldi", "Lidl", "Penny".
Real estate prices this year exceeded any market rate, making Tirana, Durrës, Vlora and several other cities unaffordable.
4. Albania and Albanians experienced a year without security for health and life.
The influx of emigration is not only due to unemployment, but also to insecurity.
In Albanian hospitals, people enter alive and leave dead.
At a time when thousands of Eastern European immigrants are returning to Poland, Hungary, Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria, because the West is going through a crisis, this is not happening with Albanians.
Even those few Albanian immigrants who have tried to return have been disappointed, because with their savings in Albania you can no longer buy anything and they are not enough to open a business.
It is cheaper to buy a house in Spain than in Saranda or Vlora.
5. Albania and Albanians also experienced a great disappointment with their vote.
Thousands of Albanians voted for the socialists, but within a few months they realized that there is no water in their taps, while the socialists drink French wine from 1913, at 33 thousand euros a bottle, the year Albania was divided.
The disappointment does not come from two or three people, but from the entire government, which is not reflecting even after hundreds of arrests.
The year 2025 will be remembered as the year of centuries-old corruption, with figures that even foreigners could not imagine.
6. The past year was also shameful for Kosovo, which for 11 months failed to create either a parliament or a government.
Not even during the Serbian occupation, when Rugova convened the Assembly illegally, had the parliament failed 63 times to elect a president or prime minister.
Hatred, anger, espionage and selfishness distanced Kosovo and Albania from each other like never before.
The evil year of those who devised the "Kosovar nation" against the Albanian one, may it never return for Albanians.
Many Albanians have lost relatives.
Many Albanians lost their jobs or businesses.
Many Albanians lost hope.
God created memory and oblivion in one day.
Perhaps the year we left behind should be forgotten…
May I never see Albania and Albanians as they are in 2025.
Gabriel García Márquez wrote in One Hundred Years of Solitude:
“The past is a burden that must be left behind, otherwise the future finds no place to come.”
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