E-VITA

My husband was a student and a very rebel spirit! He was very much against the communist state, he came from the south of Poland – from a highlander family. These are quick tempered passionate people! He was always in some kind of trouble – he opposed a militia officer in the street and got arrested or argued with his professor about some political issues and got expelled from the university unfortunately. I thought it was stupid and I was angry with him. He had so many ideas and was a clever man but everything went always wrong because of his irritability and temperament. After he stopped being a student he came up with an idea of leaving Poland and going to Sweden which appeared paradise on Earth at that time. Well it was not an easy trip to organise. One had to buy a tourist ticket for a ferry cruising across the Baltic sea and once in Sweden you had to ask for the refugee status and then the procedure started and after several weeks, moths or years you could become a free citizen of a normal European country or ask for a US visa and travel further…

I did not want to go I screamed and opposed and begged him to stay. I said he would stay if he truly loved me, but he was so determined, he hated life in Poland at that time. We parted and I stayed in Poland and my future husband went away, left me and fled to Sweden. I stayed and cried here… we did not see each other for three years, I graduated from university, started to do some boring office work, but missed him all the time. One day he knocked at my door. I opened and could not believe my eyes – it was him – my love, older, slimmer, sadder but still him! He said he was working hard, had a good life, made good money but could not get rid of the picture of me. Well what else to add… we of course stayed together, soon we had a baby, got married and went back to his home in the mountains, in the south of Poland. When our daughter grew older we packed all our belongings and in a very legal way we went to Austria where my husband worked for an Austrian company and where our home is now. It is very different than in Poland, everything is so smooth and clear, people lacking the spirit a bit in my opinion, but definitely this country is one of the most comfortable places to live in.

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