Goodbye Albania, I have left the slanderous mortar at the door

Writer Lea Ypi has announced her departure from Albania amid notes of disappointment.

Through a post on social media, Lea Ypi has stated that she will take with her every meeting of these days, the encouraging words, remarks, comments and criticisms of young people.

Ypi also added that she has the impression that the world today resembles the Minotaur’s labyrinth, where, according to her, everyone seeks salvation from visible and invisible monsters.

Lea Ypi’s post:

Goodbye Albania.

I have left the mortar of slander and the dust of biographical, ideological, geopolitical, social, material and other conspiracies that my ears and eyes have heard about myself these days at the door. Ultimately, the digital and media nothingness must be built on something, so that that handful of logos where loneliness, sadness, anger, failure, poverty of thought, exploitation, inhumanity are released in nothingness, fills the mind with the idea that perhaps there is something.

But the emotions of these days’ meetings with hundreds of real people, readers of all generations, political persuasions, historical experiences, with so many questions, remarks, comments, criticisms, encouraging words, young men and women with the courage to look each other in the eye and face each other without hiding behind all sorts of pseudonyms and carnival masks, our exchanges about the fates of the world and this village of ours, the recesses of history, the light that art sheds in search of truth – I carry all of this with me.

I have the impression that the world today resembles the Minotaur’s labyrinth where everyone seeks salvation from visible and invisible monsters. Perhaps each of us holds a piece of Ariadne’s thread in our hands, it is enough for hands to be joined and people to rediscover the meaning of being human.

Thank you to all those who shook my hand in this Albanian corner of the labyrinth.