Although I realize that other countries have taken in Ukrainian refugees, as I watch the videos of the Polish people giving so much of themselves, I'm brought to tears at their kindness and generosity, for the nobility of their personal sacrifice in order to save the lives of others. They did not hesitate because it is only right. Yet no country and very few individuals have unlimited resources.
So many have opened their homes and rolled up their sleeves.
A man who owns a car dealership spent over $100,000 of his personal money to buy a bus and other vehicles that he is using to drive into Ukraine and bring people into Poland. One is fortified to withstand impacts, yet he is risking his life in this action.
These are the kind of people you want in your life. The kind of people you want to know. Even if you never want or need for anything yourself from them.
Not the people who's personal value in life is the value of their real estate. Not those who, upon meeting you, ask you questions intended to figure your net worth. Not the people who can't resist name dropping who they know. Who have lost all humility. Not the snobs who put their noses up in the air. (I sometimes think they must be trying to avoid their own stink.)
Krakow and Warsaw are overwhelmed and more people, more countries must step up. Think about how much populations have shifted due to war. I do hope it will be only temporary but the things these people have experienced already, the fear, the panic, the running, the sounds of bombing, the sirens wailing, the water and food shortages, standing on packed trains for 10 hours, the exhaustion, the desperation, the not knowing where one will end up or how to settle, will be with them.
I want the personal wealth of the oligarchs to be used to rebuild Ukraine.
