TRACING MY FRIENDSHIP WITH ANTE GLAVIČIĆ

Sjećajući se mog druženja s pokojnim prof. Antom Glavičićem - pri ovom prvom desetljeću - svjestan sam činjenice – da mi, koji sada živimo – radimo i nastojimo činiti samo dobro, kao i on, ali ćemo i mi neminovno nestati kada za to naš čas dođe, ne znajući kada će to biti?! Antin čas došao je u njegovoj 72. godini, marljivo odradivši 41 godinu radnog staža. U mirovini je živio 6 godina, ali i dalje radno i korisno. Otišao je neočekivano – po mom mišljenju smireno, ne opterećujući nikoga bolesničkim mukama. Moji stari su govorili: "tako iz života odlaze oni koje je Svevišnji nagradio vjerujući da – ili – ne, možda doživimo i sami? Po mome, bila bi to zaista sreća! S tom neumitnom činjenicom i iza njega sada dalje žive samo sjećanja na ostavljeni trag različit od drugih – očito zbog ljudski različitog načina života. Sjećanje je omeđeno osobnim ponašanjem, karakterom i širinom ljudske aktivnosti, koju je netko obavljao ili se po nekim činjenicama izdvajao od drugih vlastitim navikama i sklonostima. Mislim, da je i u njega zaista bilo tako!? Uza svoje staračke godine shvatio sam da je samo jedno sreća, a to je dužnost koju imamo (ili nemamo!), a prečesto jedina je utjeha rad, jer tajna čovjekova bića nije samo u tome što se živi, već u tome – za što se živi?. Ante je očito znao za što želi živjeti od dana studija do zadnjeg razgovora o svom Senju i Velebitu, koje je istinski i prigrlio svojim stečenim znanjem. Za mene je ostao velebitski Ante, jer sam ga tamo i najbolje upoznao prateći ga na njegovu tragu, kada sam za to imao priliku i mogućnost, pa se sada ponovo vraćam uz njega na taj trag…Remembering his friendship with the late Prof. Ante Glavičić – in this first decade – the author states: we, as we live now, work and try to do only good things, like him, but we will also inevitably disappear when it is our time, not knowing when that will be?! Ante’s time came when he was 72, studiously working 41 years of service. He lived 6 years into his pension, although still working and useful. He left unexpectedly, calmly, not burdening anyone with his patient’s pain. His friends said: and so they leave life those who the Almighty rewarded believing that – or maybe not - we might also experience it ourselves? According to the author it would be true happiness! With this unavoidable fact and behind him now only memories live of the remaining trace different from the others – obviously due to people’s various ways of life. The memory is bordered with personal conduct, character and a wide human activity, which someone performed or by some facts separated himself from others by their habits and preferences. Does the author also really believe that this was the case with Prof. Ante Glavičić!? With his declining years the author of these lines understood that there is only one happiness, and that is the duty which we have (or don’t have!), and too often the only consolation is work, because the secret of the human being is not only in that it lives, but in that – for that which it lives? Ante obviously knew why he wanted to live from his days of studies to the last conversation about his Senj and Velebit, which he also intrinsically embraced with his gained knowledge. For the author he has remained Velebit’s Ante, because it is also there that he best got to know how to follow him on his trial, when he had the opportunity and possibility, so again he returns alongside him again on this trail