Something was off this year at the Tulip Symphony. Something rang false. It has nothing to do with the organization of the floral exhibition or with the way Pitesti looks at this early spring. It is about an attitude generated by political passions, which, especially now, in the election fever, stands out in certain characters. “No good goes unpunished” – seems to be their principle. Not even this good deed that was and is the Tulip Symphony.
I try to explain, calling on memory. A long time ago, in November 2007, in Pitesti, the bypass belt of the municipality so suffocated by road traffic was put into use. Inaugurating this very useful investment – well done! – but it was embarrassingly embarrassing. On the one hand, the liberals of the Tăriceanu-Orban team came to cut the ribbon, on the other – the pesedists of Văcăroiu, the two camps loudly claiming the authorship of the project, but ignoring the fact that for ordinary people this matters little.
Today, almost 17 years later, things have not changed much from a political point of view, of electoral passions. Then everyone had their belt, and now – and this is where I wanted to go – everyone has their “symphony”, their “score”, although PSD and PNL, partners in government, should have been in harmony at least at ” Symphony”, at this emblematic event for the municipality of Pitesti.
Last Friday, at the opening ceremony of this traditional event, held at the Philharmonic in the presence of important foreign ambassadors and diplomats, the liberal councilors were absent “in corpore”, although the mayor, a pesedist, invited them, of course, because the Symphony of Tulips did not and his, nor another’s, she of Pitesti. The next day, in the “Lunca Argeșului” Park, just like 17 years ago on the beltway, the liberals and the pesedists went around again, in space and time, instead of shaking hands and enjoying together such an achievement with a great echo also beyond the borders.
In conclusion, this seemed inappropriate to me at the event in Pitesti: the sickly attitude of some politicians, stemming from pride, envy and thirst for power. Such people can only be petty. Why? Because the greatness of a man is also given by the joy with which he accepts a good deed, with less pride. Or, “The Symphony of Tulips this spring was, I repeat, really a good deed.
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