"Fear is the mental distress caused by the anticipation of evil.
PLATON

GREECE
* Because we are a small, poor country full of people with big hearts
* Because we never visit anyone empty-handed
* Because there is no way to tell foreigners the word “Kapsoura” to properly (burning desire for someone)
* Because there is still something valuable in Greek families
* Because we always do, even if at the last moment
* Because we were slaves for 400 years, but never take this as an excuse for our current state
* Because we are scattered all over the Planet
* Because we have the word “filotimo” (Honor for his friend?) In any other language
* Because foreigners, if they can not find a word, use one of our
* Because we share our problems and bad times with our friends and family and not with psychiatrists
* Because Socrates, Plato and Aristotle were Greeks
* Because we invented theater
* Because we gave birth to democracy
* Because we discovered logic
* Because we made the start in the science
* Because we are proud of our culture, not our war
* Because when we started to make the Parthenon, the others still slept in trees
* Because we have all these lights, which have made efforts to create peace through war
* Because we see a difference between “eros” (in love) and “Agapi” (Love), while we feel both passionately
* Because Eros was a Greek God
* Because we gave the curse “Freedom or Death”
* Because we already woven leash than any other are still attracted to wolf skin
* Because “Greeks do not fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks” (Winston Churchill, 1941)
* Because we gave our ancient alphabet to the Romans and our Medieval alphabet to the Slavs
* Because we are not ashamed to cry
* Because we dance when we are sad
* Because we work to live, not live to work
* Because 97% of the star names are Greek
* Because if we ‘brother or cousin “on the road every scream turns
* Because our churches are not dark inside full of special lighting
* Because our parents do not forget that we exist when we are already 18
* Because if we want to get a sun tan, we go to the beach
* Because we confront every difficulty with humor
* Because the Olympics were born in Greece
As we unite with our Olympic light the world and send the message of peace
* Because our sky is blue white
* Because 40% of the Oxford dictionary consists of Greek words
* Because we know what “Kefi” (joy in the fun?) Means and how to live it.
…..PROUD GREEK SOUL!"

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