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Title: Enough of people
Author: Antti Rautiainen
Date: 17 July 2012
Language: en
Topics: Russia, exile
Source: Retrieved on 3rd November 2021 from https://avtonom.org/en/author_columns/enough-people

Antti Rautiainen

Enough of people

Enough of people who are sorry with the fact I got kicked out from

Russia. You know nothing about it, you have never been in the same

situation and you will never be. I do not want to think about the whole

issue, so do not say anything.

Consider a situation, when your feet got torn off in some accident.

Would peoples condolences bring your feet back?

No they would not.

Condolences make sense when it is about some temporary loss, which you

may get over with. For example, if your house burns down, you maybe may

have another house at some point.

But what is the point with condolences in case of some permanent loss?

Nothing whatsoever. I supposed, I am not good in social relations, but

to me this is obvious, for most of the people — not. Apparently, it is

not social wisdom to which people are submitting, but some traditional

norms of behaviour for various circumstances, which do not make any

sense.

What is the point of “getting over it” in the first place? Obviously, it

is not goot to be completely dysfynctional after some loss, but if some

loss in your life is real, you wont get over it, never.

We are like cups, which life slowly fills with shit. With few of us the

cups get filled, for most there is enough space. Whats the point of

tossing the shit over? It would mean degradation, wiping over the life

experience which makes us what we are.