The neighbor was sitting on a bench, smoking a cigarette and watching the boys enjoying the January spring and playing football.

“Aren’t you tired of Qatari football yet?” I asked teasingly.

“Those here still feel what the game is,” she answered calmly.

“And what if it’s not winning?” I persisted.

“To play,” she replied with the sigh of a teacher who already knows that his job is to start all over again. – The thing is, when you see their joy in the game, you want to feel it too. Did you want it to look at ours? she asked without taking her eyes off the pitch.

“No, no,” I mumbled, embarrassed. “I just wanted it to be over.

“Because nobody plays like us anymore. The world took them offside. She stubbed out her cigarette and we walked in silence towards our building.

At the end of last year, I watched and listened to Frans Timmermans’ conversation with young people. He came to Silesia for a day, visited the Silesian Science Festival, agreed to meet students and high school students. The limit of 70 people was reached instantly. There are several places for the elderly, but without the right to vote, apart from the prof. Agnieszka Turska-Kawa.

The questions were serious. For the future of coal in Silesia and in Europe; o the client’s attitude towards abortion law; on the fate of the petition addressed to the European Commission concerning the liquidation of the Brzeszcze mine; for EU participation in military assistance to Ukraine. He responded without fuss, without detour, with courage, sometimes with fervor and emotion. That he knows the mines, because he had a grandfather and a father who were miners, and his father was dying of pneumoconiosis; that he does not want such work for young people, because it is dangerous, harmful to health, and the costs of extraction will increase; that he is not aware of the petition, but will check; that he’s a Catholic, but he can’t imagine telling his daughter what to do with her body; that the EU cannot let Putin win this war.