galerie₈ "le sens" ©

Attempts to “get out” of this state only worsen the crisis, because each new action confirms his powerlessness in the face of the scale of what is happening.

Somewhere, cities were collapsing, and this was called a "geopolitical situation." He looked at it with childish eyes, which no longer reflected a carefree world, but a waking nightmare.

He began to blame himself with the same cruelty with which bombs destroyed other people's homes. He replayed all his childhood dreams in his head—to become someone important, to grow into a hero, to protect the weak—and bitterly realized that none of them had come true. He hadn't defined himself in time. He hadn't found that one, better version of himself, who, if she had existed, could have pressed the right button, said the right word, turned the tide of events.