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Pondering a Hungarian National Holiday today...

October 23, 2015 – Hungarian National Holiday commemorating the 1956 Revolution So how does a revolution take place?   College students mostly led the revolution in Poland and Hungary in 1956.   I find that interesting because college students or young adults also were the ones to set up the aid to migrants in Hungary this past summer/early fall.   Now – other people joined in but it was the youth that took the initiative.   Why is that?   Are the ‘youth’ more determined to make a difference?   Do they see the cup as half full more than the older crowd?   Nem tu dom (I don’t know) but I find it fascinating living in this part of the world.   Now there were many factors that were part of the 1956 revolution and I’m sure a bit more complicated than my little mind can comprehend but I am interested…what makes us more doubtful and fearful as we age? I find that in my own life; perhaps more hesitant to tackle those things that were ‘nothing but a thing’ even just 10 years ago.