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For Artur Zheji (and for us who are still here)

2025-08-24 22:11:05Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA ADRIAN THANO

By Adrian Thano

The sudden death of Artur Zhej is one of those news that takes your breath away for a moment. Not simply because a well-known man in the media world passed out, but because someone who was active, present, who wrote, spoke, debated until yesterday, and today he is no more, died out.

I did not have a personal friendship with him, and I often did not share the same beliefs, but I feel compelled to say today that death is the great limit that equalizes us all. And maybe that's why we need to learn to be a little more careful with each other while we're alive.

Albanian society is hardened, divided, tired. The media has turned into a ring, social networks into a merciless field of judgment. This sadness that comes to us from the departure of a figure like Zheji, should serve as a collective reminder to us: it is not worth insulting ourselves so severely every day, it is not worth throwing so much mud. Let's not forget that each of us today is, tomorrow is not.

Journalists, analysts, ordinary citizens, politicians – we are all the same in the face of this unknown that awaits us. Life is fragile and temporary. Too short to be spent on so much contempt.

I feel this emptiness and this call even more, because during these years I have lost many precious collaborators of the DITA newspaper – people with deep thought, rare pen and civic spirit such as Moikom Zeqo, Arben Duka, Shaban Murati, Andrea Stefani. Each of them left strong marks, not only on the pages of newspapers, but on the public conscience itself. With their departure, a light faded that illuminated the debate, the culture, but also the critical spirit of this society.

These absences and recently Zheji remind me how temporary we all are. And how much we need to be gentler, more forgiving, more accepting of each other. One day we will have nothing more valuable than the way we have behaved with the people around us.

A little more empathy, less arrogance, more understanding and a ban on hasty judgment would only do good for a society like ours, where polarization, contempt, cynicism and division often dominate.

Meanwhile, there is one more reason for us Albanians to try to be a little more humane with each other. We all know – outside of us, around us, it's not that they love us very much. Our history, our position, the prejudices we face – all of these often make us feel lonely as a people. They don't want us, but we don't want ourselves either. This is heavy to hold for so long. Do we have the luxury of being so hostile to ourselves? I'm not talking about virtue or love if you're veiled with these words, but at least about protection.

Today, with respect to the memory of Zheji, I feel necessary this silent call for more kindness. This is perhaps, the greatest honor we can do to our departed. / Dita Newspaper


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