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It is with great pleasure and emotion that I participate along with the Minister of Justice and the Deputy Minister of Shipping, on behalf of the State, on behalf of the Government, in today's event organized by the Municipality of Germasogeia for the naming of the park of Chalkidonos Street as "Stelios Pisi Park".
We all know and admire Stelios. I personally was blessed, because it was a blessing, to meet him in his home recently, learning so many things, a unique experience for me and since then with the use of technology, with phones we talk often, with Stelios, with an incredible strength, especially when I have to face difficult times he is the person who will think of me first and send me his message.
A talented composer, a very sensitive soul who stubbornly refuses to submit to the "imprisoned", by muscular dystrophy body, and daily flies freely and proudly on the open highways of spirit and creation. Stelios is, among many others we can talk for hours about the messages he sends us, an example of life for all of us, who sometimes at the first challenge and difficulty abandon our dreams and lay down our arms.
But not Stelios. From the tender age of five, he revealed his innate talent for music and hasn't stopped for a minute since, even when he was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy. He may have been denied the opportunity to continue his university studies in music or piano, but he turned to electronic musical instruments, began intensive lessons with a music teacher at home and by 1990, despite the gradual, inevitable, deterioration of his health, with a unique strength of soul he began to write his own music and songs.
For many of us, such a blow, such a daily challenge would amount to a complaint, we would say because to us, and a surrender to grief and despair. In contrast to all this, Stelios teaches us life lessons, transforming, for 34 years now, hardship into an affirmation of life, praising, because it is a hymn, through his sublime work, nature, love and God. At first glance, it seems a bit of an oxymoron, but the illness, the adventure, the challenges Stelios faces every day, as it turns out, have freed his mind from its earthly shackles and allow it to travel to heights unimaginable.
I feel the need to warmly congratulate my friend the Mayor of Germasogeia and his colleagues in the Municipal Council, in the Municipality of Germasogeia, for the important humanitarian initiative to name the park, in Chalkidonos Street, "Stelios Pisi Park", because, among many other reasons, with his whole attitude towards life, my friend Stelios, and I am honoured to call him my friend, is a guiding beacon for all of us, sending us a clear message to never lose our faith and our orientation no matter what we have to face.
Throughout this difficult journey, Stelios Pisis has never been alone. He was and is accompanied by sleepless guardians and protectors. First and foremost, his parents Mrs. Aglaia and Mr. Kleitos, his siblings Christina and Kyriakos, his son-in-law Alekos and his daughter-in-law Evi, and their children Sarah, Sophia, Aglaia, Kleitos and Ioanna. In Stelios' own words, his parents are "his hands and feet". Unfortunately, a tragic game of fate brought them together in such a way that on June 4, the day the Municipality of Germasogeia invited me to inaugurate the park, Stelios' father, Klitos Pisis, passed away.
Klitos Pisis, in addition to being a father, a friend, and a collaborator, also coated many of Stelios' songs with his lyrics.
Klitos Pisis, in addition to being a father, a friend, and a collaborator, coated many of Stelios' songs with his lyrics. With pious patience he stood by his son, being a model of sacrificial self-denial. In honouring Stelios Pisis today, we also bid farewell to his father, Klitos Pis, by paraphrasing one of his own verses: We will never, remember Cleito, let the dream go out!
I close by again warmly congratulating the Mayor, the Municipal Council of the Municipality of Germasogeia and may others follow your example.
(PM/NYAN/NZ)
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