Writers and artisans

We have been living there for almost two years - temporarily. As long as the corona virus passes, we will hang out again, travel, watch plays, kiss three times, shake hands... I didn't believe that I could miss that peck on the cheeks. We do everything we set out to do quickly, both at work and in the city, so that we can return to the safety of home as soon as possible. And when someone comes to visit us, we are "nothing happier"...

"As long as the corona passes, then we will..."

What are we going to do?

Nothing.

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I don't walk, I gurgle. I always have a half-empty bottle of alcohol in my jacket pocket to disinfect my hands.

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When, after a text about (non)vaccination, a young man from Podgorica called me, politely introduced himself and communicated his views, which were opposite to mine, I did not take him seriously when he concluded that we would forget identity divisions, on the occasion of COVID and vaccinations.

Now it seems to me that everything is possible, even divisions over the simplest things, in which the profession and only the profession would have to have the final word.

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No one has figured out the secret of the human brain and why some people are smarter than others. It seems to me that associations have an influence here. Our whole life takes place through associations. From the moment we open our eyes in the morning until we close them at night, a sea of ​​interconnected images pass through our heads. One builds on the other. The more associations that fly through the brain's meanders, the richer a person is, I would say, in spirit.

And it must also be admitted that the one who, for example, was associated with an even better and more interesting story by a story, works mentally.

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We are inundated with bad news.

"I give the kingdom for a horse!" - exclaimed Richard III.

I don't have a kingdom and I don't need a horse, but I take you to coffee for any good news.

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Today, everyone can do everyone's work: here, writers try to engage in artisanal works, and artisans write, it's true, mostly on social networks. The difference between them is that craftsmen earn much more than writers, and the similarity is that they do not care about the work they are involved in, with the desire to stand out.

In the short term, the damage is greater than the craft writers, but in the long run, the damage is incomparably greater than the craft writers.

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"What's the political situation like?" - a school friend casually asks me from an exotic country.

"I do not know. God forbid that the former come back, and it seems that we were not happy even with the new government, whose leaders are vain and self-centered... But I know one thing: I will not participate in the extraordinary elections, and I will try my best to convince the members of my circle to do so as well. and extended families."

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Considering the parties they belong to, it would be logical for me to have more sympathy for Milanović than for Plenković. And it's not like that. The president of the neighboring country seems to have a need to defend himself because his name and surname are being dragged to the Western Balkans, so he is constantly somehow tense and in the guard, and the prime minister acts as a "boss".

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It is estimated that 18 million and 800 thousand people in Afghanistan go hungry every day. Among them are more than three million children under the age of five. The little Afghans urgently need food, water, medical care and decent housing or most of them will not survive the winter.

On the other hand, in rich countries, so much money is spent on depositing surplus food that it could solve the issue of hunger, not only in Afghanistan but in the whole world.

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I don't know which people please me more: those with whom I can say goodbye nicely or those with whom I can keep quiet...