2023-05-10 15:07:00
Novak Djokovic talks about NATO bombing his childhood home in 1999:
"We were just about to fall asleep again, and then a huge explosion happened. My mom stood up very quickly and hit her head on the heater, and fell unconscious. So, it was us crying because of the bombs, and it was us crying because mom was not reacting, and my dad was there, and you just don't know what is happening, you know?
Luckily my dad managed to help my mom get back to herself, and we collected our stuff quickly, took the necessities, and went out. There were no street lights, everything was shut off, and it was so loud we could hear each other even if you screamed. My dad was carrying my brothers, and my mom was carrying stuff, and then I slipped and fell, and I looked up and see this stealth plane flying and dropping things, and the ground was shaking.
Of course, that is one of the most traumatic experiences that I had in my childhood that still stays with me to this day... How is it possible that big countries come together and bomb such small countries, helpless people on the street, and just destroy everything? I could not understand that. There is no justification for war. There is no justification for killing somebody for taking away their home.
This is the ultimate cruelty. And that has made me and everybody in Serbia very angry, and the scars of these emotions of this anger still are today present in everybody. But I worked on myself and on those emotions to forgive because you need to forgive. Finally, how can you be fueled more by anything than love? And love is forgiveness. And that's my philosophy on life."
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