It's hard to be an Armenian

One day my Mexican friend has asked me: "How it feels to be an Armenian? You are from such a small country, some people doesn't know even where your country is located."
To understand how it feels to be Armenian, you have to born Armenian.
Being Armenian is not just nationality, every Armenian comes this world with some mission.
Do you want to understand how it feels to be Armenian?, just look in to my eyes, they can tell you more then my tongue does. What you can see there?

Do you see this child? Ask him about genocide, I am sure he knows what it means. When you come this world as Armenian you have some information which comes with your Armenian gene. May be your parents will never tell you about those things, but somehow you will know it. You come with your latent grief, which you can see in every Armenian's eyes.
Armenian children grow up fast, they understand the world very quickly, they know what it means to miss someone, to be in distance,  to struggle day and night for piece of bread. to fight against to violence.
If you have born Armenian it means you are a part of society, You have to live your life with unwritten rules which are followed by centuries. It means you have the most beautiful family, where always love and care is dominated, and it doesn't matter even if your family lives divided, because they need to sacrifice for your good education and bright future, and still you will have strongest bonds within all your family members.No any distance can destroy bonds between Armenians.
If you are Armenian you have the most amazing mother in this world, which will care about you till last breath of her life.
 If you are Armenian, you are strong since your birth, and that power you get from your land, because your land is sacred. It's  land of Noah, it's land of first christian nation.

 We, Armenians are very close but also very fare from each other.
 When we fight against to our enemies we are united, when there is peace we start dividing.
We always have feeling of nostalgia, because there is always someone outside from our families.Or even we are outside from our country. And this feeling  never leave us, because there is no chance to be united. And the most painful part of Armenian destiny is that we can not find a peace in  motherland, we are strangers in our own country. Since we born we fight for our right , for freedom, for peace, for non violence, sometime with outer enemy, sometime with inner, but the result is the same : there is no change.
 We are the best or  worst, we can not be in the middle. Its hard to be an Armenian, but I am proud to be Armenian.


Love and Peace