Let me tell at once that I am not a fan of German football team. I am not a fan of any team other than the Armenian. I am not particularly worried about who wins whom at what score, or who has become a world champion. If the Argentina or, for example, the Dutch national team become a champion, it would give me no pain nor joy. As in the case of Germany.
Simply, I do not share the “Armenian formula” that this was worthy, but that one won. It seems to me that this is a logic of a loser, unfortunate. Allegedly, I or my favorite team is the best, but the circumstances, the “fortune”, unfair referee made the opponent winning. It is psychology of a “paper scoop”, I have lost, but I have the winning “promissory note.” Slightly modifying the well-known proverb, one might say, mentally healthy people, teams and nations are working, sometimes losing, sometimes winning, and those unhealthy are engaged in the matters of trying to justify their defeats.
I am a fan of Germans’ household, as well as “high” culture, philosophy and music in the first place, their organization, diligence, punctuality, and law-abiding. And these wonderful features are displayed in the world champion team, where there is no Messi, Neymar or Robben, and no hope on lusters of the stars, but there are mechanisms and organization that ensure success.
Working for Germans is not only a way of earning money, but also honor, whereas shirking, begging and complaining of life is infamy. Performing a quality work is a matter of principal for him. Yes, there is a certain pedantry and unnecessary punctiliousness, but it is definitely better than being “off-schedule”. It is for this very reason that people throughout the world is saying in awe, “German quality”. It is for this very reason that losing the two World Wars in the 20th century, the Germans were able to stand up. It is for this very reason that the German patterns underlie the modern military, educational, and scientific systems in many countries. In short, I am a fan of the features in Germans and other nations, which we, Armenians, should possibly borrow.
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… Once, the composer Anton Bruckner, being extremely happy with the performance of his symphony by Hans Richter, approached the conductor and gifted him a one-thaler, saying, “Drink a toast to me.” That was the way accepted in his village Ansfelden to express a thank you to the masters for the well-done work. Richter had put this thaler in a gold frame and was carrying with him with a gold chain. One-thaler as a symbol of decent work.
ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
