Changes People sometimes say "You've changed!". Moreover, they most often put a negative sense into this phrase filling it with regret. Sure, I have changed and I have been changing for the whole my life. Have I become less useful and convenient than I was before? I do not care, it has nothing to do with me now. "You've changed!"... My dear reader, if you are told the same words then just be strong enough to let those people go, because you do not really need any living soul that can not accept your changes. But one way or the other, changes are inevitable. Find those who will be able to support your changes and even to change with you. I guess that changing together with someone is one of the biggest pleasures. Thus, remaining the same because someone wants you to do this is one of the biggest shames.

It's in your head All of a sudden, I realized, there was nether God, nor the Devil. People just came up with these entities to have someone to deal with their despair and another one to be blamed for all troubles. It's all about comfort, isn't it? However, it's just in our heads. There is no one to help you and no one to blame, except you. Praying to God and asking for help, you always talk with the image in your head. Eventually, you end up coping with your troubles by your own. The best part of praying is the placebo effect that seems like blessing. You can get by without it, though. As well, all your mean deeds and troubles are not a part of Devil's plans. This entity also lives in your head. Most of bad things have happened in your life because you allowed it. The only one to blame is your. Just take it, learn a lesson and keep going on. We are gods as well as we are devils. That's in our head, but what we are indeed is in between.

Anything that is beautiful, people want to break (quotation) "Anything that is beautiful, people want to break. And you are beautiful, I'm afraid." (c) "Ugly" Nicolle Dollanganger Humanity has always been a chaotic crowd which always wants to spill someone's blood, conquest someone's lands, take someone's wealth. People break everything they touch, even themselves. Beauty and otherness are not an exception. People are envious creatures. Even a tender red rose may become coal black and grow sharp and venomous spikes after a human touch. As well, those ones who haven't lost goodness and uniqueness will be disfigured, broken, brought to common standards by the society of envy and condemnation. I'm sad every time I see something or someone beutiful. I'm afraid... it may be gone. I'm afraid of losing it. That's why I'm afraid of falling in love. What if I won't be able to protect my darling! What if I destroy everything with my touch!

Usage f the dash sign

Hello!

One guy asked me in one social network what option is correct:

"Russia - the home of prosperity. OR Russia - is the home of prosperity."

My opinion is that the dash sign is needless there. However, one girl noted that we can emphasize description words with dashes.

Who is right? Can we use the dash sign in the sentence above?

Thanks in advance!

About Expectations (quotation) Hello! I stumbled across a great quotation of a great person:

Hayao Miyazaki // "In order to grow your audience you must betray their expectations."

I totally agree with his opinion. People expect you to act in the way they want that is convenient for them. One person equals to one expectation, one hundred people equals to one hundred expectations and all of them are different. You cannot meet all their expectations, it's impossible. Moreover, meeting expectations are surely a convenient thing, but it's just what people want to get, but more often not what people really need in order to grow. Our expectations are a comfort zone where things remain the same and we do not have to make an effort. If you want to grow, you must go out of your comfort zone, explore the world outside, learn something new, face troubles, respect and analyze the opinion of other people and learn a lesson from all these things. Were your expectations betrayed? Think over it, maybe, you do not want to leave your comfort zone!

So, do not expect too much from this life. Expectations can play a wicked joke with you. Today, your expectations are pretty high, tomorrow they may be betrayed and you will be left with a feeling of disappointment. Disappointment is a bad feeling, it can break a person.

Control your expectations and be happy!

Thank you for attention! I'd be glad to know what you think about it.
Have a nice day! :)

About Expectations (quotation) Hello! I stumbled across a great quotation of a great person: Hayao Miyazaki // "In order to grow your audience you must betray their expectations." I totally agree with his opinion. People expect you to act in the way they want that is convenient for them. One person equals to one expectation, one hundred people equals to one hundred expectations and all of them are different. You cannot meet all their expectations, it's impossible. Moreover, meeting expectations are surely a convenient thing, but it's just what people want to get, but more often not what people really need in order to grow. Our expectations are a comfort zone where things remain the same and we do not have to make an effort. If you want to grow, you must go out of your comfort zone, explore the world outside, learn something new, face troubles, respect and analyze the opinion of other people and learn a lesson from all these things. Were your expectations betrayed? Think over it, maybe, you do not want to leave your comfort zone! So, do not expect too much from this life. Expectations can play a wicked joke with you. Today, your expectations are pretty high, tomorrow they may be betrayed and you will be left with a feeling of disappointment. Disappointment is a bad feeling, it can break a person. Control your expectations and be happy! Thank you for attention! I'd be glad to know what you think about it. Have a nice day! :)

Six feet under... (a short story) Hello! I came up with a short fiction story. I appreciate any corrections. Enjoy reading! My soul lies six feet underground. No, I'm still alive, or rather, my body. It still wakes up in the morning, falls asllep when it pleases, eats, relieves itself, do things that don't matter. The body just obeys the impulse of the life, it drags slowly by inertia from it's birth till the death, decay and oblivion. In fact it's already dead, it's just an empty mechanism... springs are stretched, a soft creak of cogwheels is heard... Clockwork doll performing a simple algorithm. The body is made of cheap pieces that go wrong and break all the time. The most amazing piece is the mask that copies a human's face. When the body is damaged, the mask is artfully expressing a heart-rending grimace of pain; when it's in danger, the mask is like a chameleon changing it's color and becomes white like a chalk surface. Anyway it's just a part of a programm of a skillfull creator who made this body because of boredom, just for fun... the mechanism is set up and the performance has started. There was a soul too which was imprisoned in a ruby color stone, the core of the mechanism. However the body was so imperfect and the soul leaked out through numerous cracks and defects, like water leaks out of a cracked vessel, because the soul can't be deceived by empty illusions. Sprinkling the ground it got deeper with rainwater. The soul is still there and it will remain there till the end of time, till the last mechanical body falls apart, till the last star blows, till the universe becomes a tiny point that will explode and everything will start from the beginning. Thanks for reading my story. Do you like it? What do you think of it? Have a nice day! ;)

Nothing or pain?

If you had a choice, to feel pain or to feel nothing, what would you choose and why?

Personally, I would choose to feel pain if I had the choice. Why? I think that I can know with pain that I'm still alive. Feeling nothing you can't say whether you are alive or have already dead.

Am I a great fool?

I don't think it's a good idea to tell the whole story. Shortly, I love a girl, I want hug her, kiss her, protect her, take care of her. Unfortunately, I'm just a good friend for her. Moreover, she's attracted to my best friend. What a banal story, huh? Almos everybody would tell me "Hey man, you should forget this feelings, you'll find your true love". I told myself it many times, but I can't really do anything with my feelings. I can't help loving her while I know she'll never have same feelings for me. It's so stupid and it hurts so much. It looks like I'm killing myself, like I'm a hopeless fool.

Have you ever had the same situation? How did you cope with it?