Character: Lada

- Can be the souls of ancestors? I asked a philosophical question.
"Of course," calmly said Chiu. - Snake folk wisdom says: if there's something in this mortal world, then there are certainly the egg from which it hatched. And if there is an egg there and one who blew it.

- Wanted to invite to a sacrifice, - I said through clenched teeth.
Chiu clearly reflected:
- How interesting. On the wedding name, the birthday, the days of the village all sorts too... But sacrifices...

- Is it the network?
Are nodes of the network. And between nodes - many other dreamers and ordinary people. All who care about the future of the next generations of children.
- Beautiful... But why the flower?
It's Alatyr Lada. Don't you know? One of the most famous Slavic solar symbols. Ward, known since the times of Ancient Rus.
- Here's how... And you are all its rays...
- And we have millions of rays. And all fates are tied, tied with knots, you know? If you want to change the fate of the world - start changing yourself. Become a host on which everything rests.

- So how have you lived without me, Lada?
- Peter, sooner or later, life ends. All relationships are temporary. One of the two inevitably leaves early. Anyone who has a longer have to search for new meanings.
- It's all wrong, Lada... It's all generalities, but I ask about specific things. Exactly what you would do if I did not?
- I am grieved Peter. I love you very much. And if you did not, I would be very sad. And then... I would remember you. Would continue to do what is important for you and for me when we are together. Continued to work, raise our children, and then grandchildren and great grandchildren. Tell them about you.

- And in what detail, Lada, do you find happiness?
- A Cup of coffee in the morning - cooked exactly as I like: cinnamon and a pinch of pepper. Good music for Breakfast. In the smile of my daughter and how me licks the hands of our puppy. In a beautiful blue dress that I wear to go to work. That the weather today is warm and Sunny, the sea roars very gently, and in the evening I'm sure I'll go for a swim. That I am talking with you now, and I'm interested.
But it's not all about happiness and not about the meaning.
- And about what, then?
Well, it's just a little fun. Consumerism. These small circuits can't be the meaning.
Each of them, perhaps, the title meaning and will not pull, but all together they add up into quite a capable mechanism. Happiness, like a mosaic, consists of separate fragments, day after day. I have so.
- And I have no...
That's because... what a pity that she - no! But I can't put her in the head with their view of the world.

Each person wants to see life in its entirety. To raise beloved children, love your house, your partner. To travel, to achieve results at work, to communicate, to share experiences, to help each other. This is such simple needs. In the pursuit of demographic and political achievements, we all began to forget about it.

Inga, when a woman is humiliated at home, the worst is not even the fact that her husband behaves like a monster, and the fact that a woman can not receive any assistance from other people. She said: "it's your own fault you chose". It says it all: "be Patient, endure everything, and you, too, keep silent". She say: "Change myself and then change it". Lada, we're not witches, we're just people. We can well educate their own children. But I can not remodel our husbands are not our children, but other people have grown up and formed children, who were older, which we not alter. They are the product of environment and education of their parents. We can't change their personal history with one click of the fingers. People can change and become wiser and kinder. Of course, you can! But only if he wants it. But if we want him, nothing will change. He will remain himself, because he is comfortable.

- You never told me about his past life.
Past it is the past, so he won't look back.

- A lie is a relative concept.
- It's all philosophical nonsense. A lie is a lie, without any clever explanations.

Do you ever have the feeling that you did something wrong? And painful you want to return "in the life" and fix it?
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- It is necessary to change the present not the past. The past is you. Tell him thanks and move on.

- I don't like mysteries.
- I don't like snow, but I always have to live among it.
- It's your problem. I am not where I don't like.
Wrong.

Maybe what we consider a curse, actually turns out to be the gift of God?

- A mistake is proof that you tried.
- No, Lada is just an excuse for losers. Those who try, can't always be wrong.

After meeting him I was already anyone: bitch, whore, high quality calculator, impassively counting other people's feelings and desires, cold seducer, a talented writer, anyone, but not a woman.