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"...I tell my wife, “let's go back to Syria”, but she doesn't want to. True, there are problems with electricity, gas, food, water... But life in Syria is much easier than here in Armenia," a taxi driver tells me.

I listened to him all the way and now I am thinking, trying to understand it all.

It seems hard to perceive why life is easier there.

Are the people there simpler? Is it about relationships? Are there more job opportunities? What is there for an Armenian in war-torn Syria that isn't in war-hit Armenia?

I regret that Armenia never became a homeland for these people.

We haven’t built warm relationships with them, haven't given them jobs, the house hasn't become a home for them, it has remained just a dwelling... but how to give them what we don’t have?

We are short of warm relationships; we live according to the principle of lupus est.

Where are the jobs, a choice for them? Many graduates can hardly find a job in their area – find something and it’s okay.

But it’s not better than in Syria.

Maybe I should also go to Syria to have a desire to live in Armenia.

A.V.