It was almost 50 years ago. We were having a chat about my stay for a year in Europe. I had loved the stay. I have no recollection of it except for a side comment I made and this was long before Nokia made the world conscious of the existence of Finland.
If I had a say in where I was born, I would have chosen Finland.
Even today, long after my parents have passed away, I can still feel the unhappiness of my father. He did not understand my statement. Perhaps no-one did.
I did not wish to be a migrant - or worse, a refugee. However, that does not prevent me from a desire to have been born and brought up in a society which is egalitarian, caring, trusting and, I cannot explain, the feeling of being made comfortable and welcome even to a stranger like me.
The trigger today was a forward I did not see, which said that we would not have known about it if "a CCTV camera had not been installed by my brother".
I do not want to live my life worrying about a stranger robbing or killing me. That risk is negligible compared to each trip I take on the road - whether driving or walking!
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