Can you also vaguely remember the meaning of the word honesty, or the meaning of “daring to give your opinion honestly.” To be honest, I wonder more and more whether humanity in general is still waiting for honest people around them. Do you still dare to tell the truth to someone’s face today? It seems as if there is an embargo or criminal prosecution on it. Well, the beautiful invention of marketing by John Kotler and others, is one of the things that has taught us to think commercially. To ask the right questions, and in any case to make sure that we don’t immediately show the other person the back of our tongue.
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Are you still as frank with everyone as ever?
Being candid, telling your story by an open campfire, with a good glass of beer or wine, who remembers it from his or her recent past? I find out more and more that the truth is hard to find in many cases. It seems as if in schools for the last few decades students have been told that you can’t just tell the truth. Maybe the rationale behind this was that you shouldn’t hurt people unnecessarily, but still. Who is the wiser from lies? I’ve known for years that we humans don’t talk to each other, but that we only emit sounds at each other. Tones of different heights, from which the other person then draws a meaning. Strictly speaking, we look much more at the other person’s facial expressions to understand them.
Are lies also told in politics?
“You don’t have to lie not to tell the truth,” My mother, who sadly died far too early, used to say to me. So, you can legitimately withhold things, as often happens in business negotiations. But what about politics? A very good friend of mine where I am very drawn up Nadia Helmy is an extremely friendly lady who studied political science in Sweden and now lives in Giza in Egypt, and specializes in China, her politics is such an honest person. In addition to all the bad things in this Chinese policy, she also sees the better sides of the policy there. Let me say that he is very aware of the ins and outs of this country. She now has 16908 followers on the internet platform LinkedIn, of which I am one, and she is also a member of the LinkedIn group “Semper Simul”, which I founded, a group that I founded in January of this year (2024) and already has eight hundred members. I founded the group because I understand from my giftedness and high sensitivity that we are all connected in the big world.
Will Semper Simul (always together) remain a dream, or will it ever become our reality?
I speak to Professor Nadia regularly via LinkedIn or WhatsApp and hear what political battle she gets involved in every time, just because she speaks the truth and wants everyone to enjoy it. But there is a law of “Medes and Persians,” which is already mentioned in the Bible that not everyone is always happy with the truth. Even the most grounded stories a professor tells are often not accepted by the people in this world who don’t want them to be true. Stories that you and I now know to be true are often coloured differently for political reasons.
How many different colours of pens do you have?
It seems as if all those stories are written with different coloured pens. Surely, we can assume that Professor Nadia Helmy comes out with well-founded and ethically responsible stories in the press and other media. Yet her life is seriously threatened from various political sides. At many moments, she is no longer sure of her life. She is especially sad because she is very sincere and honest.
Again and again, she rises from these life-threatening situations, because she wants to continue to proclaim the truth, a truth that I also believe is very important for peace on our earth. With this story I would like to show that I have a lot of respect for the professor and the woman in her. In my mind, I would like to place her in the list of Bishop Tutu, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King and Elvis Presley, all people of faith who were aware of the inequality that still exists on our earth.
Nadia Helmy, a celebrity of her kind?
I hope that we will all be able to support her for a long time to come from the comfort of our own armchairs in front of the television and/or radio. It takes a lot of courage to do what Professor Nadia does every day for us and the rest of the world. I would love to shake her hand in person one day and thank her for everything she has already done for us as citizens of the world. Thanks to her, we can see the bad and the good sides of China and its people.
I invite you to greet her and thank her for all her good work at the universities of Beijing and Cairo. Thank you, Associate Professor Nadia Helmy.
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