New Year, But We're Still Here.

The Economist's 1843 magazine's second most popular image of 2018:

The world isn't stupid, as most of Malta would like to believe it is. When you're cut off from the situation and are seeing it from outside the boundaries of the Maltese shores, you are truly able to see how completely mad the situation in Malta is. 

It is true that it is easy to fall into the trap of doubting ourselves back here, where we are submerged in the madness. But we mustn't ever do that, because that is exactly what will lead us ' to leap on the bandwagon with the cry that if you can’t beat them, then you might as well join them'. I quote here from the article that has supplied the most strength and kept everything in the sharpest focus: my aunt's 'Right and wrong are not a popularity contest'.

I think I should write here some words she wrote in that article that I quote time and time again: 

There is something else I should say before I go: when people taunt you or criticise you for being “negative” or for failing to go with their flow, for not adopting an attitude of benign tolerance to their excesses, bear in mind always that they, and not you, are the ones who are in the wrong. 

I hope that 2019 has some peace in it and some sense of justice, if not a whole taste of it, which is what is needed. 

We can only have hope and remain firm in our stand against injustice, hatred and madness. I'm still here, and so are you. Even if our voices falter, we shall continue.