When coronavirus first broke out in Albania and people, famous or not, launched self-isolation to prevent the spread, there was a comprehensive approach to social media. Live concerts on Instagram, videos from home doing fitness, watching movies or cooking, created an idea that before coronavirus we are all equal. But all that followed later showed that we probably over-romanticized the situation.
History and capitalism have shown that people will never be equal and we are used to that. Whether we like it or not, we have accepted that no, we are not equal. However, the coronavirus showed us that we are not even empathetic. While an uncertainty has gripped the socio-economic system, Albanian VIPs - sorry for using this term, but Albanian does not have a corresponding word for "people a little better known than usual", so we should refer to them as " very important person ?- they continue to post and make statements that we can call many things, except empathic. So stay on the opposite side of the approach you understand and put yourself in the other person?s shoes.
To give some examples without concrete names because the idea goes beyond personal and focuses on the phenomenon, I don't think it's time for a famous character to show that because of acquaintances / friendships, the personal hairdresser opened the clinic just for her. But if this can be chewed because rightly it was not a tragedy that it happened, I find it impossible to say the same for someone who posts photos while enjoying a glass of wine by the sea, while in the media we see and hear stories of Albanian doctors tearful, who have 2 months not meeting children.
How acceptable can be the statement of a well-known character, who, while the vast majority of people spend hours on a government portal that happens to be blocked and worse still, these people are fined because they may have forgotten or may they could not get authorization to leave despite the importance of moving, he says aloud and on television that "the police do not stop him at all because they know who he is." The same character jokingly says that "he would give 2,000 euros to anyone who would be able to return it to the quarantine because he lacks the beautiful experience there." Experience? Beautiful? In quarantine? For that maybe, but not for someone who sees it from the screen and is probably himself in quarantine, has a relative in quarantine or has lost a loved one, after staying in quarantine.
While so many people have lost their jobs, been paid, rented out, worked in the black and don't know where to turn, someone else says that "the dog bought a gold pendant and an 80 euro sweater." I love animals and I understand every purchase no matter how luxurious as long as one's personal finances can afford it, but is it time to talk about it? Wouldn't it be nice to treat the strong connection with pets from September onwards, for example?
Let's be clear: We do not have the power to stop people from living their normal daily life, the daily life they lived before quarantine. By this I mean that you can go to the beach, if you do not risk anyone, you can rest at the holiday home by the sea, you can go out without permission because the police do not stop you and you can do all kinds of actions that do not work for humans. , but please - for the sake of empathy we?re talking - don?t publish them. And here it doesn't matter what you believe or think about pandemic, but as long as there are people who are sick, have lost relatives, are no longer at work or whole families have no income to postpone the month, it's time that if you can't help them, at least don't make them feel bad.
Having said all this because we, after all, remain a poor country (and no matter how big and luxurious the villa's ex-seaside villas are, to be honest, it's about 3/10 of Jennifer Lopez's backyard). However, unable to expose Hermès bags and Fendi costumes, let?s not talk in such a way that highlights the benefits of being rich and famous, at least as far as the pandemic is concerned. Until then, I will continue to believe that there are more hungry people than those who suffer for a living.
