last week five women have been murdered in vienna, austria, within 24 hours. that´s a huge number for our small country. austria covers an area of 83,878 square kilometres with a population of 9,159,993 residents as of jan 1st, 2024.
on friday, march 1st, the austrian women ring organized a scream day against violence. i´ve never heard before of such an event and couldn´t get it out of my mind. what would these females achieve? how would politicians react? as of now i don´t know.
knowing about such an empowering sign has affected me deeply. in my younger years i very often dreamed that nobody hears me screaming, everybody is ignoring me and so on. and now in my 60s i have to realize i should have screamed out loud to feel much more than just existing and doing my jorts like a machine to please everyone around. okay, this was then and long ago.
on this friday, march 1st, i had a wonderful chat in person with an awsome women about this. she told me about her dire need for screaming once or twice a year and how she is practicing it. with her family she visits the vienna prater, a popular public park and home to one of the oldest amusement parks in the world, rides one of the craziest roller coasters, boomerangs or something like that and screams as loud as she can.
isn´t that a tremendously fabulous idea to scream out all the frustration, hurt and anger to feel alive again? to feel free of all trash inside?
soon i´ll scream as loud as i can although i feel very well and contended. i need to let out the remaining trash inside myself :)
MOO - Monika Mori 