Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.
A wall of suitcases from people that were sent to concentration camps in World War II; on display in the Museum of Second World War, Gdansk, Poland.
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When you get older people start to talk as if your parents should be grateful you spend time with them. “What a nice son to set aside a day for his mom.” “Your dad must be so happy you call him every week.” This is bizarre to me. As if it’s just something they lucked into and you’re doing it out of charity. When actually it’s a natural response to what they did for you—if they were good to you, I mean—how they poured out their very being to make you human and to make you whole. The great secret is that after that there’s nothing you can give that’s too good for them, nothing they don’t deserve from you.
When you’re young it’s easy to believe your own hype, but the truth is you’re not actually such a hotshot that most people would count it an honor to be in your presence. Is there anyone else in the world you can delight by your mere company? One or two people, maybe, but it’s really only your parents who have always thought of you that way, ever since all you could do to amuse them was flop around and poop. Now you have more options and more obligations than to entertain them, it’s true. You’ve changed—but I’m this respect they really haven’t. They still can’t get enough of you. And to make anyone that happy just by existing—well it’s you who should be so lucky.
“For it is not by some accident—no, it is because of our own moral failings—that we are left with the name of the Republic, having long since lost its substance.”
Cicero, “The Republic” (Book 5) (c. 50 BC)
Welcome to The First World War.🙁
(One of the main Russian Generals in charge of this debacle killed himself during the retreat). https://t.co/H5mJXJNeAe
Here's my problem with making movies about great historical stories/figures but changing them as part of "dramatic license".These are some of the most compelling tales ever,why change them? And truth is more satisfying than fiction anyway, so that's an interest force multiplier.