3/22/2015

Stop complaining. I mean it.

I am abroad now and a couple of days ago in an event for scholars I have met some persons from neighbouring city of my native. In two minutes talk I felt my brain washed with shit. "The prices are so high." "The salaries are so low." "Nothing have changed." "I eat two times a day". "We haven’t bought the transportation card and walk by foot. Ten kilometres each day"."What will happen with our jobs in Ukraine?". It was a good luck that a guy from Indonesia approached our table and I have an excuse to switch.

Look. It’s hard everywhere. There is no fucking place where life is easy on this planet. People wear masks on their faces all the time in Beijing because of industrial pollution and there is no hope to resolve this issue even in a distant future. Haven’t you know that Croatia fought a war with Serbia for five years? In total 20 000 people were killed ! And what about Apartheid in South Africa, genocide in Uganda, default in Argentina, homeless sleeping on the streets inside riches of Manhattan in New York City?

The people are strangling for survival all around the globe. This is the part of life. You cant avoid it. No one can. But you can handle your response.

When on Monday February 20, 2014 in Kyiv the message spread over Facebook that "titushki" (criminal mercenaries) are going to attack Hrushevskyi Street where rebels were fighting with police we just get our shit together and went into the night arming ourself with wooden staffs. We took position down on European Square blocking the back entrance to the battlefield. And there were fifty men with us who came just because  they have read the same message on Facebook as we did. No one complained. We came out to fight. And that night we succeed.

I learned the lesson and want to share it with you. Stop complaining. Shut the fuck up. Take you weapon (metaphorical one).  Stand up and fight. The whole world are watching you. Right now!

PS By the way they have a death sentence for smoking marijuana in Indonesia.