Rules for living (draft)
- Observe. The kind and the unkind, the ‘modest peculiarities’.1
- Absorb, and emit back, the kind.
- Refrain from critique as attack. (Some of it will come out anyway. In any case, it is a waste of breath.)
- The answer is, no one knows.
- There are no rules.
- (omitted)
“The only true and lasting meaning of the struggle for life lies in the individual, in his modest peculiarities, and his right to these peculiarities.” (Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate)↩