«The danger of staying in a safe place is that you increasingly slow down. In general, there is nothing wrong with that, and most people in the world do not really need to hurry. But that’s only if you still remember how to do something without fear and rush, how to put things off until tomorrow or make plans for the next week. But I no longer remember how that is. After 24 February 2022, I never put anything off until tomorrow, because my confidence in this tomorrow—which has always been shaky, anyway—has been shaken even more by the events happening around me. I am not saying I was complacent before: historically, Ukrainians have always been living on a volcano, suffering from hostile attacks against their land, culture and achievements, manifested in the extermination or relocation of our people. During the short breaks in this—when no one was exterminating or banishing us from our land—the struggle to rise, again and again, from yet another ruin, was so unbearable in a political, social and economic sense that you could never relax.» There’s a link in the stories where you can read the whole text by me at LitHub.com