What do you think of it, so far? Do you wonder if there might be something better? Do you think about where you are? Do you wonder where you’re going? The above are lines from a song by Nik Kershaw in the 1990s, but relevant to my thoughts on this, Macedonia’s 31st birthday as an independent nation-state; yes, a very old nation and people, but since you threw off the yoke of Yugoslavia and Communism and took on the mantle of independence, you are a state with the same age, relatively speaking, as many modern-day nation-states in Europe and the world.