Centro Espírita Dr. Adolfo Bezerra de Menezes

               Watching a program about the World War II, I saw strong and striking images about the invasion of Russia by Germany in 1941. Hitler and his commanders understood that to conquer the world, they needed mineral riches and grains of the country to be conquered.

               Hitler has an obsession in this moment: Conquer the Russia and her riches. He sent thousands of soldiers to the front and surrounding cities like Leningrado and Moscou. While the Germans advanced, the Russian used the tactic of “scorched earth” where they took everything that they could and burned the ranches and barns of rural properties, don’t leaving anything that the German soldiers could enjoy.

I believe that everyone has noticed that there are people who are different from the others. The “others”, for us, are mysteries that walk over the world, foreign to us, to who we are, and that make feasible for us to not know who they are. For many times we don’t know them and we don’t have the interest of going further deep, even when we try to have friendship. In the work environment, talks may even happen, but are all more serious, and that keep those people away from us.

Talking to a friend, in the first workday of 2011, greeting and wishing a happy new year to him, I heard in exchange a speech more likely in these terms:

- What is the New Year for us? All the days are the same and are nothing more than the continuity of the others that have already passed. For me there’s nothing new in the New Year. Everything is continuation of the last year. What do you think? Am I wrong?