That's how we humans are. We can only be happy in one place on the globe. This place is our Motherland.
“The Earth is amazingly beautiful!” - say the astronauts, the first among people who were lucky enough to see our planet as if from the side, in the glow of its blue halo. Time will pass, and, as K.E. Tsiolkovsky, humanity will gradually populate space around the Earth. This will happen without fail. Earth is the cradle of humanity. Humanity cannot live forever in a cradle. And the star travelers of the future will dream of a distant Earth, and they will look for a small dot on the black background of space, our blue planet ...
Yes. The earth is beautiful. In the vastness of the oceans and green expanses of forests, in the heaps of mountains and the vastness of the plains, densely crossed by roads that lead to cities and towns, in the calm flow of rivers, even in the alienation of deserts or in the white silence of polar glaciers, there is its own majesty, its own beauty and seduction ...
It seems that nature itself has endowed a person with this embarrassing desire to see the world, to feel the breath of other people's winds, to learn the romance of distant travel.
But our heart, our heart is forever given to a piece of land, to that piece of its vastness, where, perhaps, in the eyes of others, there is nothing outstanding; but for us this is the beginning of everything, the father's house, the mother's song. Here we were born and raised, this is where our roads began. People for whom we feel deep gratitude live here - our fellow countrymen. Here, like nowhere else, our connection with what was and what will be, our involvement in that great and irresistible community, whose name is the people, is revealed. Writer M. Prishvin owns the words: "To tell the truth," I "can only be said in my native language."
A person does not choose his homeland, just as he does not choose his mother. We are born, receiving along with life, as his invaluable gift, motherly affection, native language, Fatherland. And the more, the deeper we think about life, the more obvious is the truth to us: Homeland is not only a favorite landscape outside the window, not only an ordinary way of life. Homeland this concept is immeasurably deeper.
The life of the people in our land from the gray depths of centuries to the present day; the efforts of many generations of our ancestors who created all the benefits of material and spiritual culture; their dream of a better life and perfection of the world, their blood and sweat, which they thickly watered our land - all this is our Motherland.
