Perspective

[Incongruous]

Man you guys have been to some great places.

I can't say that a certain visit has changed my perspective because I was probably very young when it happened (holidays down here are expensive affairs). But I have had the pleasure to meet some very interesting people in NZ. The most important was probably an old Hungarian man who had known my Grandmother while she was in Hungary. I knew nothing about her past as she had never spoken about it, for good reason. Hearing about the years leading up to '56 and what she went through was harrowing. Especially when he told me how my Great Grandfather had been killed by communists, rather funny since he was the leader of the workers unions.

I suppose it allowed me to see how, when pushed to the limit, people can do horrible things. Perhaps this was simply an attempt to find an excuse for what happened in Hungary.