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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nTo a decent life, to a wife or girlfriend, to children, family, friends, regular sleep, meals, everything that is beautiful and important in life. Everything that is normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And it is not normal to live in a metal can without interruption for several weeks, to sleep a few hours a day, to eat from a can, without life insurance, to adjust your hours so you can drive longer and shorten your own life, to test the limits of the brain\u2019s endurance, the body, the soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Is it all worth it in the end, when a mother cries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Someone will say, and they will be right: The first generation of immigrants always has to sacrifice itself so that their children can live better. That rule is not from yesterday, it has applied for centuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But must the sacrifice be this great?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our elders died in mines, left their bones in pits, died in steel mills and factories where they had metal for breakfast, smoke for lunch, and smog for dinner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Must we, a hundred years later, in the time of robots and artificial intelligence, die on the road, lungs full of diesel, while firefighters pull us from burned machines?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Of course we do not have to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The last message that morning, before his tragic death, sent by Aleksandar Coni\u0107, whom everyone in Chicago knew and loved as \u017du\u0107a, says everything and sounds like an epitaph for the known and unknown heroes we have seen off in recent years and decades on a journey without return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And in it \u017du\u0107a tells his best friend, his roommate from student days in Serbia (hence he calls him Cimo), that he should quit trucking, leave his (\u017du\u0107a\u2019s) company where he works and finish medical school:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cCimo, you are a man for whom it is a shame that he is not a doctor and that he is not engaged in medicine. You are not designed for a truck, just as I am not for a doctor. If you can, Cimo, feel free, because you can work until 70. And you can even open a private clinic\u2026,\u201d he says in the message, which today sounds like an epitaph, something that could stand on all the graves we have dug lately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And then, alongside a picture showing him having breakfast of a can of sardines and jam from a jar, he sarcastically concludes: \u201cWonderful life\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u017du\u0107a understood everything, unfortunately too late to save his own life and take some other path, instead of the highway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But it is not too late for thousands of young people who still set out on that same road every morning. Risking death, and lately even risking being arrested and deported without mercy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is not too late for them to change something, to outwit fate \u2013 which in fact is not and does not have to be fate! Just a poorly chosen job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A job that, it is true, we all know brings the most money, and which serves us to pay all those lawyers, fake wives, these and those loans for apartments and cars, schools\u2026 But it is not the only job from which all that can be paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even Dositej once said, \u201cBooks, Serbs, and not bells and rattles!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Translated into today\u2019s language, this could read:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cStudy, children, and run away from those damn trucks, as fast as you can!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ask around a little, somewhere other than the tavern, where you drop by every other weekend to spend your hard-earned money, to get drunk with friends and for a moment forget what a miserable life you are living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And when you talk to someone outside that vicious circle of tavern-truck, you will hear that with a completed university degree, in a few years, you can earn the same or more than in that hellish can, and live far better, without the risk that your picture will one day appear on GoFundMe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now imagine that sitting next to you are all those you knew, even superficially, as I knew \u017du\u0107a, and who are no longer with you, not there to raise a toast, to hug you, to at least smile in passing…<\/p>\n\n\n\n My soul hurts as I write this, and I know that many of you hurt more than I do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Maybe this is the moment to ask yourself. To turn off a road that leads nowhere, except into an abyss where money, houses, cars, even those damn passports and green cards are worth nothing. Because with them you have nowhere to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another road exists. Think about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And find it, for the love of all those who love you, and whom you love.\u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n\n\n\n LINK FOR HELP IS HERE! <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n P.S. And I will ask you once again, all of you, to help the Coni\u0107 family as much as you can, it will mean a lot to them. At the same time, thanks to the wonderful people, the organizers of the Saint Sava Ball held last night in the hall of the Church of St. George in Indiana, who responded to my call and decided to donate part of the money earned, as well as to all their guests who joined in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n P.S. On this occasion I also ask all our priests here, as well as all conscientious and responsible owners of trucking companies, in fact all of us older immigrants who still have any influence\u2026to use every opportunity to talk to our children, to draw their attention, to advise them\u2026so that we do not continue to mourn them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n PEDOPHILE ARRESTED IN NEW BELGRADE: He touched himself on his private parts in front of children, then beat a boy with a pole!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n ONLY SEVEN DAYS LEFT: NIS submitted a new request for a special license from the US Department of the Treasury!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n HORROR IN IVANJICA: Dangerous poison scattered on the streets, several dogs died, human health also endangered!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n MIOMIR IN THE QUARTER-FINALS: Kecmanovi\u0107 achieved an important victory in Dallas over the 24th-ranked tennis player in the world!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n THE GREATEST SERBIAN DIPLOMAT: Here\u2019s Why Jovan Risti\u0107 Is Known as the Thomas Jefferson of Serbia!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/Poruka-Aleksandar-Conic-616x1024.jpg\")
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