Petra

“The people must be the ones to win, not the war, because war has nothing to do with humanity. War is something inhuman.”
― Zlata Filipović

“Ending

I lied.
I wanted you from that moment.
I wanted you, wrapped in starlight and reflections,
To be tied up with strings.
And ropes.
And chains.
I wanted you hanging around my neck
Like a charm I could press to my heart and
Make three wishes on.

But I trapped the want
And the words inside my mouth.
I buried those secret things under my tongue,
Biting down until blood and bitterness
Filled my mouth
And poured down the back of my throat.

In the beginning, you said, there was only water.
But what about the end?

I closed my eyes and lay flat
With my back to the ocean
And my face to the sky.
I lifted my hands and caught ribbons of wind
Underneath my fingernails.
I rode the water for so long,
I forgot what my skin felt like when it was dry.”
― Autumn Doughton, This Sky

“Now unable to find a sense of self-worth and individual indentity in skilled work, people looked for other ways of making sense of who they were, and what it meant to live in this modern society. There was a tangible void in people's lives - and entertainment became one obvious answer to fill this void.
Not only that, but entertainment reshaped and reprogrammed a new sense of identity in the masses. It showed them a world that was magical and mesmerizing, where beautiful women and handsome men has passionate love affairs and enjoyes a lifestyle to envy. In this dream, the lifestyle portrayed in the movies was the image of happiness. Most people didn't question wheether hapiness was really at the end of that line, even if they got there.”
― Somi Arian, Career Fear (and how to beat it): Get the Perspective, Mindset and Skills You Need to Futureproof your Work Life

“I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe