Horrors of life. How to be actively aware and still love life.

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Do you feel guilty, ashamed, or wrong for being not okay? 

Do you feel that you feeling down, stressed, apathetic, anxious, or depressed makes other people embarrassed?


Have you noticed that in our society (social media is a great example), it’s a kind of a mauve tone to share the bitter truth about the world with the world? 


War/ hunger/ natural disaster/ poverty…


the explicit images and straightforward words get blocked, 

your accounts are banned, 

and it seems that the world wants to just keep on going, 

not knowing the truth,

just to stay comfortable.


I know it may feel like a burden too hard to carry. 


I am Ukrainian. I know what I am talking about.


It’s hard to look a homeless person in the eye, 

as it's hard to look at the pictures of people shot in the streets with tied arms.

hard to see those hungry children’s faces from Africa even in the pictures.


Hard do learn what hideous monsters people can be.

Rape, torture, decapitation, with all the sickening details, 

like no “Saw”-like horror movies could have ever imagined.


Some people have been living in the midst of this horror for years.

And the world stays silent because it stays ignorant.

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