When I married my ex-wife, I was living in a Roma community. Now I am still with the Roma. To me, the truth is an understanding of, and acceptance of, your origin and the ability to remain a Rom while becoming what you want to be in the mainstream society around you. You can be a Rom or a Romni and still be a doctor, lawyer, journalist, farmer, ballet dancer, nurse or schoolteacher. I believe that men and women are equal but different.
Women have certain strengths and abilities that men don t necessarily have and vice-versa.
Romni is to me the other half, the part of you that you are not. The left-hand path is exploitation, using people for your own greedy ends, criminality, war and destruction of the environment. I have always tried to follow the right-hand path which is construction, creativity, spirituality and love of humanity and the world. As individuals with freedom of choice, we must all choose one path or the other. There is a poem I learned when I was a teenager which I feel expresses this very clearly for me.