Well, they are setting out… To unfold their wings elsewhere. To a region where they can experience the dizzying heights of (knowledge). I crumble the words intended for the celebration, the wisdom pouring from memories, about wings and roots… how does it go? Give a child wings so they can fly as high as possible, and roots so they always have something to hold onto, something to nourish them? Perhaps like that?
They are now accounting for their knowledge; I, to myself, am counting the facts: whether I contributed properly to the strengthening of their wings and if the “root-treatment” was adequate? When I think of them: Barni Radó, Saci Kovács-Nagy, Sári Ladányi, Levus Sipos, Petra Varga, Enci Sármány, I am certain that they are capable of soaring high, and from there, (truly) seeing everything important that we might call the meaning of life.
So, they are preparing to fly, to become “freshmen” at the country’s excellent universities—at the Budapest University of Technology, the University of Pécs, the Póka Academy of Music, or the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music—or simply towards professional success.
In parallel with them, our friends from Szeged are also preparing; we wish them much success and good topics (the good topic is the one you love). I wish the same to those taking their advanced school-leaving exams. For me, there remains the shared excitement, the crumbling of words: wings, roots… and I find the right solution, just as they do, in the words of Sándor Weöres:
“There is but one command, the rest is only advice:
strive to feel, think, and act in a way that benefits everything.
There is but one knowledge, the rest is only an addition:
Below you the earth, above you the sky, within you the ladder.”
Go high, young people, towards the full potential! Thank you for inhabiting this nest with me in safety, courtesy of the Csányi Foundation.
Angéla V. Sárközi, mentor