“I LOVE MY BABY” (January 3, 2014)
Thus a large sign printed on a huge baby carriage that I just spotted in the center of Zagreb. Wow! Now we all know how lucky the baby is. But I still wonder who is meant to get this surprising message. Is it the father? The families of both parents? Their friends? Passersby, like myself? Or the mother herself? The way things are going, I think it is the mother. Nowadays, it is her who needs ever-stronger reassurances along the way. The feeding, the washing, the changing, the entertaining, not to mention the many mishaps on the way, are ever harder to bear in this busy world of ours. The cafés, the television, the shops, the mobile phone, the social networks… But the blessed sign on the baby carriage is always there!