We All Need to Change

This is an extract from Mr. Ashot Bleyan's diary note for the 7th of November.

How far should we go back eradicating corruption?… up to 1990?  Where should we stop? Who gave us this corruptive life? Was it done by Ter-Petrosyan, Serzh Sargsyan or Robert Kocharyan? For me, the April pace of 2018, “Make a Step and Join In”, was a march done by the ones who were determined to go in the direction of perfection with love and solidarity together fulfilling the life-renewal covenant. Such an unwritten covenant was established among the citizens of the Third Republic of Armenia in 1990. Has that covenant survived the treaty of time?         

The solidarity of generations is in danger, and now the problem is the establishment of communication among the three generations living together. Where does this alienation from one another take us to?

Dear “Civil Contract”, Prime Minister Pashinyan and many other younger friends, if we take away the time of our joint life, responsibility for our close relations, the difficulties we have overcome together and the long road covered, what will remain? I name this unfaithfulness which I have always been afraid of.      

We all need to change and we all have a human, public, civil, Christian covenant of mutual help. The capable ones and the leaders take the front positions becoming the guarantors of such an arrangement. We should be engaged in improving the social life. We should improve the economic life of tens and dozens of teachers and doctors.

The English translation by Yura Ganjalyan