Take Your Seat, Or Why Am I Not So Special Yet On The Honor Board

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Take Your Seat, Or Why Am I Not So Special Yet On The Honor Board
Take Your Seat, Or Why Am I Not So Special Yet On The Honor Board
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Imagine, you come to the cinema, and so far almost all the seats are free. You buy out the cheapest place on the edge for 50 rubles, and sit in the center for the best. And then a person comes who honestly paid 300 rubles for this place, then you change to a chair nearby for 200 rubles, but the owner comes to it too.

And so you continue to change one place for another … now for 100 rubles, then for 250, but you just don't want to borrow your own. The film has already begun, and you again sat down in a nice place almost in the center of the hall, when suddenly such a terrible bogey comes, and even in a bad mood. So he gives you a slap on the head without a word for taking his chair … There is nowhere to go, and you are offended and humiliated (thank God, if you are smart enough not to try to measure yourself with him) you trudge to your paid place. The movie is on. And you can even sit and think about the plan of revenge on that brute … And then suddenly BOOM! And the ceiling collapses, filling the entire center of the hall with a pile of stones. And you are sitting on the edge, in the dust and … in shock.

But no, it was not their universe that punished them - they took their places. It is for you, after long attempts to snatch something better, lucky to return to your place. And you are infinitely grateful to all those who persecuted you or politely asked to leave their place, and especially to the bogeyman who gave you a hat, because it was after his intervention that you stopped wanting to wander in other people's places.

The main character in this story came from the current generation, of which I am a representative, including myself.

There are a lot of potentially great people now - ambitious and special (who don't want to be ordinary). People who, almost from their very first steps, want to be at the peak of success, to be the most important and significant, avoiding "fire, water and copper pipes", giving wisdom and experience, and with it the right to be someone more (emphasis on first syllable). This is the generation of those who want to "jump straight from the first floor to the tenth" (as one good person put it) …

A generation of quite good guys and girls, for the most part even very smart and capable, but often not thinking that their ideas about importance and significance sometimes diverge from reality.

But it is the most "ordinary" people who come to us in an ambulance when something threatens our life and health. It is the "ordinary" ones who bring up our children in kindergartens and teach in schools.

These are "ordinary" people who clean up the streets from tons of garbage created by us every day (it’s scary to imagine what would happen if for at least a week the garbage was not removed at all).

The "ordinary" ones build our houses. It is the "ordinary" who sow the fields, grow potatoes for us, slaughter the cattle.

"Regular" people fix a clogged toilet bowl, change a leaky pipe.

"Usual" in factories collect buses and trains, on which then other "ordinary" take us on business.

What will happen to the world if everyone suddenly becomes “not ordinary”?

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