Posts in Thoughts

Yesterday, I was completely drained, lay down to sleep, and, exhausted by the thoughts of the past days, asked the angels for help. And then a young angel appeared, male in appearance, tall, with a round face and long curls, and he began not exactly “scolding” me, but more like “guiding” me in a very businesslike manner. For some reason, he spoke in English.

In the meantime, life has placed several serious questions in front of me, which I am currently trying to resolve. I do have a few questions (perhaps to myself?), some of which have been bothering me for quite a long time.

You listen to me. You say you don’t want to tell me how to live my […]

I completely agree with this: If you are thin (and have never been really overweight) - stop judging overweight people and giving them advice on how to lose weight. It's a separate topic - the psychology of a fat person. Everything is different there. So when thin people start reasoning and, worse, condemning someone with comments like 'how much can you eat?! Can't you control yourself?!', I want to smack them on the head... Overweight and thin people are always on different sides of the barricade. The thing that amazes me most in life is people who try to teach me how to live in this regard.

There are three types of kindness. The first type of kindness is the one a person needs and asks for. In this case, whether to give them kindness or not depends on two factors: the degree of compassion and the internal feeling of the rightness of giving.

I have a very conscious feeling that I am not doing something—something I should be doing. On one hand, I look at people who are determinedly going somewhere, achieving things, and not just for the sake of achieving, not just for the social-material benefits they gain once they do, but first and foremost because they are living a life they love fully, without reservation.

Yes, an immigrant (who is not surrounded by close people or is surrounded by those who were not around them in their homeland) may begin to yearn for the "old" days and familiar places particularly strongly.

I've determined a very important point. First and foremost, I will now always pay attention to how a person communicates. It doesn't matter - whether it's in person, over the phone, on Skype, or responding to comments in their journal....

Lately, I've been concerned (although I've almost gotten used to it, intellectually understanding it even though it's still difficult to accept) by the fact that many people draw conclusions about us based on fragments (even tiny pieces) of information about us, which not only cannot form any somewhat realistic picture but also completely distort the existing perception of us.

I was completely captivated by the Dyatlov Pass incident. I read every article I could find on the topic, including Matveeva's book. Yet, I couldn't find what I was searching for until I read "One Hundred Days in the Urals" and the publications marking the 40th anniversary.