#choices

"The Empty Lands" is a new Solidarity project of Cherry.

In this project, Dutch youngsters write columns about their experience as country-siders: what challenges do they face, what is beautiful there, how do they face the differences compared to a town or a city, first travel or experience abroad, and so on. They will be writing these interesting columns for a year long and some of them will be published in local magazines, newspapers or other media channels.

These are not only pieces of text, or words put together, these are pieces of heart that each youngster decided to open to the world about their lives.

Cherry

Apr 11, 2020
4 min

Long live the city (Federico Gigli)

My name is Federico, I’m 18 years old and live in Rome. Rome is a city of culture, architecture, sculpture, art, Italian history, and the place where the Pope resides. It is not a simple city but an Italian capital and in my point of view, other European capitals are incomparable to it. Who lives in the city never gets bored, every day there are chances to do different things: going to parties, pubs, discos, bowling, movie theatre, gym, going for shopping like crazy…. because

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The mindset of the seemingly restraint youth (Konstantina Litsa)

Cherry

Jan 21, 2020
3 min

The mindset of the seemingly restraint youth (Konstantina Litsa)

It is common knowledge that we live in a society driven by the constant pursuit of individuality, a society divided into multiple socially enforced norms, whether they encourage positive, or negative behavior. In my view however, there is one in particular that stands out. And that is the Norm of Success. According to this perception, it is the human nature, the natural evolution that propel human beings to succeed, or rather, condemn them to do so. As a young girl, who grew

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Hectic city life or calm counstryside? (Táňa Debnárová)

Cherry

Dec 2, 2019
2 min

Hectic city life or calm counstryside? (Táňa Debnárová)

Both these options have something to offer. It depends on how we sense it and how we are. No everyone is able to live in a big city, perhaps somebody looking for that constant noise and 24/7 life. When people hear “countryside”, many think about poor and a slow life, but is it really like that? When you ask someone from the countryside how is it for him to live there, he will say that he is happy there and he has everything he needs. There is no rush, no stress, though they

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Cherry

Nov 16, 2019
2 min

Something for something (Enikő Gosztom)

Both in cities and villages we are surrounded by people, humans are such social creations in most cases. But does in mean that in both cases we are a part of a community? Me, as a countryside girl from a small village could not imagine to not belong to somewhere, being anonymous , being not well known by my neighbours, but since I moved to a town, I realised, not everybody thinks like the way I did. In the village there was a huge secure. We know, which house is whose. Where

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