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Not apologizing for being Russian

Hi there, my dear followers.

These days we all are surviving a great shock, some terrifying feeling we were never supposed to have at 21st century, at today's enlightened time, when humanistic values seem to reign all over the world.

But shit happens. That's all I have to say of what is going on around Russian-Ukrainian conflict today. Though it's not today when it had started. Anyway. What's going on right now, should never be. When some government leaders are not able to settle a situation, citizens shouldn't suffer.

What I want to say to all of you today (and I'd love if you listen to me carefully).

1. That's not our war.

I've NEVER knew any Russian person saying "смерть хохлам" [smert' khokhlam] - "death to Ukrainians" (хохол [khokhol] - "a tuft", a slang name for Ukrainians, descending from a traditional Ukrainian hairstyle, firstly seen at 1644; as well as Ukrainians has a slang name for Russians москаль [moscal'] - "a Moscow resident" in a distorted way). Listen carefully please one more time. We. Don't. Want. Any of Ukrainians. To be slayed. No one of us wants. Except, maybe, some violent freaks, which are rare as well as in any other country. Try to remember your neighbours, relatives, some aquaintances: surely you'll find a person or two who say any problem should be solved with a shotgun, not conversations. So do we. We have radicals. Not more, not less than you have. But that's not about ordinary people consider to be normal.

2. I'm not apologizing for being Russian.

For speaking Russian, for loving Russia and every little beautiful thing about it. I know some of international communities' members now are banning every Russian person at their friendlist. Everyone of you can feel free to do the same. But I refuse to feel guilty for some shit which was never concerted with me. I am a Russian. I am proud to be. Because Russia is much more, unspeakable much more than today's actions of it's leader. Who is just a human with his human's life and weaks and challenges — while Russia has thousands years of stress and disorder and falling down and rising up again and hope and love and faith and struggle and centuries-old longing for peace.

Russia is my Родина [rodina]: from родить [rodit'] - "to gave birth". Russia is my отчизна [otchizna] and отечество [otechestvo] - from отец [otets] - "a father". All or this literally is "the Fatherland". I won't betray it. Anytime, anyway.

I'm a Russian. I'm scared. I love you. Be wise.

P.S. Some pics for your attention. This is a very old one of me. 2008, an International Air Show at Zhukovsky, Moscow Region, Russia. I'm crazy about planes and consider Russian aircraft designers ones of the world's best (for ex, BE-200, a Russian "flying boat" is an unique aircraft being able to extinguish a forest fire in a phenomenonal time), and never miss a single biennale Air Show since 2003.

And this one is from year of 2019. Me and my friends and a part of my beautiful country. Karelia, the White sea, after being 10 days on a stone shore of an unhabited island while a great storm - and finally rescued back to a mainland.

P. P. S. If you're Russian, please reblog using #not apologizing for being Russian. We shouldn't, really. God bless us all.

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thinking of when vincent van gogh said that “poverty stops the best minds in their tracks” and how art would see a new era if we funded struggling independent artists instead of hiring talentless nepotism babies.

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dress up just to study, chew on the caps of your highlighters while you scribble notes in the margins of your books, put your feet up on your desk and drink cinnamon tea with too much sugar, learn calligraphy and write your favorite quotes on pages of old books and tape them to your wall, drink wine and read in the bath and use that bathbomb you keep forgetting is in your cabinet, play your favorite music play classical music play music from the 20s and dance down your hallway just because, call your friends and read aloud like each word is the most important one on the page, see if you can light enough candles to not need to use a lamp and open your window even though it’s cold, go for a walk and see if you can take a turn you haven’t taken before, live life as a challenge of how fun and dramatic a tiny world can be

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yess, i w a n t i t

We could sit in the car for 2 hours and talk about life while eating pizza and that's a date right there

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“The universe created you for a reason, now go out there and find out what it is.”

— Nikita Gill

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Cute things to include in pen pal letters

Photos and recipes of things you’ve cooked

Photos of your pets

A sample of your favourite tea

A leaf from a pretty tree

Poems

Pressed flowers

A locket necklace or bracelet so you always have a piece of each other with you

Drawings

A playlist of your favourite songs

A list of your favourite shows or movies

A swatch of colours you’re loving at the moment

A swatch of your favourite perfume

A list of your favourite books

Or even send then your favourite book to read

Stories of odd or cute things you’ve recently seen

Photos of anything that makes you happy

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“Let someone love you the way you are - as flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you sometimes feel, and as unaccomplished as you think you are. To believe that you must hide all the parts of you that are broken, out of fear that someone else is incapable of loving what is less than perfect, is to believe that sunlight is incapable of entering a broken window and illuminating a dark room.”

— Mark Hack

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“How amazing is it to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go on in your head.”

— Nina LaCour

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Interstellar (2014)

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I really wish more companies and stores had alternate methods of contact for those with phobias of phones…makes life way more stressful than it should be.

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Anxiety

I hate that some people don’t acknowledge that phone phobia is a real thing. The feeling I get before making a call/receiving a call cannot be normal.

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“… I wonder if I will ever find a language to speak of the things that haunt me the most.”

— Bao Phi, from “Vocabulary,” Thousand Star Hotel

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Listen to it~! 💞 She got one of the most loveliest voices I’ve ever heard! Keep it up!! 👌🏻✨*two thumbs up*

voice ask- 6 and 8 🌝🌝

6 : a character you love and why?

click on this to hear my answer !

also @clowningking bc ur mentioned in this xoxoxo

8 : share a memory you love

click on this to hear my answer !