My quietness can be explained.
If the last year, around the same time, I have decided to take a break from social media, the break that lasted for over six months, this year, I was not planning on staying mute for weeks. Yet, the series of unpredictable events often suggest their own scenario, and all one can do is step back, take a break and reconsider the further steps. While I sit tonight alone in my kitchen, surrounded by birthday flowers, I think of the last few events and how much they altered my idea of celebrating this day, wishing for a peaceful, quiet atmosphere.
If the last year, around the same time, I have decided to take a break from social media, the break that lasted for over six months, this year, I was not planning on staying mute for weeks. Yet, the series of unpredictable events often suggest their own scenario, and all one can do is step back, take a break and reconsider the further steps. While I sit tonight alone in my kitchen, surrounded by birthday flowers, I think of the last few events and how much they altered my idea of celebrating this day, wishing for a peaceful, quiet atmosphere.
This autumn has been the utmost delightful. It was motionless, serene. As if the wind was paralyzed by the way sun rays penetrate through the crowns of poplars, it bothered no leaves; it touched none. This year autumn did not hurry; the whole appearance was of satisfaction of its elongated existence. Leaf foliage rotted gradually. Geese on the pond resembled in laziness that was not alarmed by an unexpected blizzard from the mountains. And, the spider web, illuminating under the afternoon light, gilded just like a line in a boy's hands who is learning to fly fishing. I could observe it, finally, with no intrusive feeling that much of those delights shall be over sooner than wanted.
Commitment has a certain dosage of risk in it. It is the trait that not everyone possesses; some seem to be born with it, others appear perfectly surrounded by most fascinating people without committing to friendship. Yet, that is what faith, marriage, career, and friendship, of course, do require if one desires to develop in either area.
A completely normal desire of a human being to belong, to be a part of a certain group, however, sometimes acquires traits of a radicalism where one does all possible to be a part of a group appealing to him, and later to protect his privilege meaning that only that style, that group deserve respect and appreciation.