
Prime Minister Edi Rama, in his podcast "Flasim", spoke about the motives that keep him in office and the philosophy that guides him in his personal and political life.
Rama showed that since he was little, he understood that death is not just a rumor, but an inevitable reality.
He remembered his grandmother's advice, who told him that the most important meeting in life is the last one, with Saint Peter, who holds the keys to heaven and hell.
The Prime Minister added that his motivation was also born from a sense of justice within himself, for equality and opportunity for all.
"Today people rightly make comparisons with Germany, France, etc. We have that beautiful expression 'don't tell me how you were, but tell me how you are'. But I feel that advice, or the wisdom of Mother Teresa, who said 'instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle' because not everything is solved immediately. What keeps them going is faith, faith in the dream that you see with your eyes open, I will get there and I will do this, this, this and no one can stop me from doing what I have set my mind to do," said Rama.
While speaking about EU integration, Rama stated that "a large part is in our hands, another part that is not in our hands is more than possible, what is in our hands we do properly. If we do not do properly what is in our hands, the part that is not in our hands becomes more difficult."
Rama said that "the fixation is Albania's membership in the EU." "It doesn't matter whether I am prime minister or not," the prime minister emphasized.
Edi Rama: The reason I'm in this job is because I believe. I've been informed since I was little that death is not a rumor, but something that will come.
My grandmother used to tell me that you will meet many people in this life, but the most important meeting is the last one. At the end you will meet an old man with long white hair, with a long white beard, he is Saint Peter, and he has the keys to where you will go, hell or heaven.
You'll sit across from him and say, "Hey, tell me who you are and what you've done?"
You'll say, I studied, I got my grades, I graduated from school, I became an artist, I did my work, I got married, I had children... and then what does that mean?! What do you want from me?! You did these things for yourself.
Tell me, have you done anything for others? And that's where this work falls apart. If you've only done it for yourself, you'll go to hell.
What I believe is that you leave parts of yourself through others, a part of yourself with your children, a tent through others with the love you give, with the solidarity you give, and a part with the things that remain.
The thing that has been the driving force for me in this work has also been a real inner sense of revenge, that 'how is it possible that we don't have the opportunity to be equal'.
Today, people rightly make comparisons with Germany, France, etc. We have that beautiful expression 'don't tell me how you were, but tell me how you are'. But I feel that advice, or the wisdom of Mother Teresa, who said "instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle" because not everything is solved immediately.
What keeps them going is faith, faith in the dream that you see with your eyes open, I will get there and I will do this, this, this and no one will stop me from doing what I have set my mind to do.
Albanians are a people who, when they are alone, are irresistible in energy and perseverance. When they get together, they become a bit of a problem.