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What is the right thing?
My old friends must remember the amazing and incredible epic of trying to get a job as a postman. Which ended with me more than suddenly becoming a journalist for Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, colloquially referred to as Radio Liberty. I had been working in the field of journalism for about a month when the post office called to say: we... WE ARE HIRING YOU!
These things become amazing when they happen twice. But usually they are not repeated, remaining exceptional curiosities.
For twenty-four days and twenty-four nights I work as editor-in-chief of the Narodnaya Volya website. And then the call came - the tram depot was worried. I was waiting for this call at the end of November, I was thinking of giving myself a birthday present. Fulfill a childhood dream. True, not so much his own, but his older brother’s - to become a machinist. Although tram drivers are not called that now.
They didn't call. Neither for birthdays, nor for New Year. I was upset, but not particularly surprised. Well, I think they sensed with their sixth, administrative sense, that at some point I was capable of blocking the central avenue with my tram. To be completely honest, this thought actually occurred to me, pleasantly excited and inspired me.
But, as you already know, instead of gaining fame as the Belarusian Gavroche, I became the editor-in-chief, partly even an office plankton. Such revolutionary active plankton, true, and yet.
Yes, so here's the call. They are waiting for me at the tram depot, despite the fact that they are almost 100% sure that sooner or later I will barricade the main artery of the capital with my tram. The seams in the tram depots of Minsk are so bad.
These coincidences are like a sign from above, right? In my opinion, they are very similar. Just go and understand what this sign indicates. Either evidence that I am on the right path, where a caring hand led me. If I had called me from the post office or the tram depot a month earlier, life would have turned out completely differently. But how objective is the opinion that doing otherwise is necessarily worse? “Who sews the boys’ underpants” and so on. Or quite the opposite - they say, drop everything and run. In simple activities, in ordinary people, etc.
How would you define the criteria for doing something right and necessary? More correct and more necessary than any other. Don't offer money.