I ran away from myself for a very long time, allowing the state and mindset of a victim to control me. I gave other people power over my life as if I were a guest in my own life. This led to chaos in my life and work on myself when I faced reality—everything starts with me, and I am the answer to everything. At first, I wanted to deny it and look for someone to blame, but then it didn't make sense because I realized that this was happening to me because I allowed it; it was comfortable for me to remain in a childish position. My immaturity was my response to this.

Love is worth everything— worth your pain, worth your separations, worth disgust and torment, worth vicious howling, worth madness and mercy. It is even worth life itself. Not to mention death.

© Serhiy Zhadan

The soul hurts the most, and its wounds may not be loud, but they remind you of themselves in a painful way. One of my favorite songs is “I know every open wound in you, I will heal them all so that you don't remember.”

Pain teaches you to live with it, adapt to it, and changes you as if you had two lives—before the pain and after it. It teaches you to fall and, despite everything, find a way to get up even when it's hard. However, when God is with you, you realize that you are not alone.Everyone may abandon you, the whole world may be against you, but there will be someone who will wait for your conversion as if he were your first and last hope, and that is God.

Sometimes fate plays tricks on you in unusual ways. Especially when you fall in love with someone you have no future with.

We all crave love. Especially in childhood. Judgment hurts so much. And especially when you live for others so as not to disappoint them.

They say that the pursuit of success and financial freedom is the most important thing. As it turns out, it cannot be compared to simple things - people who love us, like-minded people, dreams, and the absence of betrayal of ourselves and our soul.

The greatest miracle in the world is the love and support of those who love you despite everything. It's when they protect you from harm and misfortune. When they worry about you. When they pray for you. And the most sincere form of love is prayer. I don't know any other.