“It’s impossible to strangle yourself.” An elderly but cheerful surgeon from CELT told me this phrase, grinning. He spoke, of course, about physiology - about the instinct of self-preservation. Harm yourself with a weapon - please. With bare hands - no, it won’t work. I thought that the same is quite true for the human psyche. People are truly skillful in trying to drown out the voice of the heart. We give up the profession of our dreams in favor of “bird in hand” - for the sake of mom or dad, wife or husband, out of fear of failure and disappointment in our abilities. We let go of those we love and stay with those we don’t love - out of stupidity and cowardice, out of calculation and at random. We again and again look for advice and the right answers where we need to decide for ourselves. We bend under circumstances, betray our own ideas about beauty, and roll downhill. It would seem that we are resigning ourselves to the fact that it did not work out, did not grow together, did not work out. But the desired and unfulfilled continues to disturb and disturb. Looking for a way out. Looking for options. He is looking for a wizard who will help him find his way up. You can strangle yourself and your impulses - slightly or seriously. To strangle completely - no. No matter how hard it is for us, no matter how hopeless the world around us may seem, we are crawling towards the light. Or at least we lie in his direction. We wake up in the morning and start a new day with a clean slate. What if today?..Read also: how to understand if this is your person?