Is Life So Cruel?

Have you ever broken your foot?

Or let me put the question in a more familiar form, have you ever had a numb foot?

You know how sometimes when you are sitting down you put your foot under you and when you get up you can't feel it, you know how that numb foot feels? 

Your foot is there, you know, but it doesn't obey as usual, I don't know, you want to step on it, you can't, if you try to step on it you wobble, and at the same time you feel as if it doesn't exist.

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There is a stirring in between, but that unbearable tingling sensation has not yet fully started, it is very painful when the foot starts to come to life, so we don't feel the pain yet. 

I always feel an unbearable pain when the tingling starts as the numb foot comes to life, and then it gradually passes. 

But it will pass, I know it will pass, so I wait for it to pass, even if it is difficult.

Sometimes I even step on that numb foot out of spite so that it will pass quickly, it hurts on the one hand, and on the other hand I slowly regain that foot that I feel like I have lost again.

The tingling at that moment is an unbearable tingling.

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This is how we have been with the earthquake zone lately. 

People in the earthquake zone are suffering tremendously. 

It is not easy to establish an order for life in makeshift containers in freezing weather, without a proper income.

You may know from schools what public toilets are like, imagine having to use a public toilet all the time? And your bathroom is as public as the toilets!

That is if you live in container cities.

They have built such places that two steps away from the container city you are staying in is a mud river, that is if you are staying in a place built out of containers.

There are still people living in tents, if you can even call that living. Even between tents in tent cities is muddy.

Normally it is difficult to live in such places, but people are forced to do so.

Or you have to take a risk and go into your old house with cracks and cracks. 

There is no other choice!

The majority of people who stay in the region stay there because they don't have any other means, those who do have the means have already dispersed to big cities. 

Many of them started to live in a new order in those cities, if they were able to establish one. 

Yes, his pain is great, who knows who he lost in the earthquake, even if no one in his own small family died in the earthquake, he must have lost someone from his big family, and even if he didn't, he lost his next-door neighbor, a friend, maybe a childhood friend lost his life under the rubble.

In any case, his heart is still on fire.

But he has already established a new order, started a new life in a new city. It is almost impossible for him to return to the earthquake zone.

If it's a house, it's a house, if it's property, it's already gone. Lives are gone, not to worry about property.

A new life has begun for such people!

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Those who stayed in the region are forced to struggle to survive in those bad conditions. 

If they don't go to neighboring cities on their own, they don't have the means, and if they don't go to their relatives, they probably don't have close relatives living in other cities. What should they do? If they have no chance to build a new life in a new city, they will have to live in those container cities in the earthquake zone.

Even if they have relatives, how long will you stay with relatives?

For the time being, they have to live in those poor conditions in the earthquake zone.

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Yes, they voted in favor of the government in the elections about a year ago, representatives of our state said that they would build his house and give it to him within a year, and he believed it.

But it didn't happen!

Either the state could not afford it or the state failed. Or should we not call it the state? Isn't it more correct to say the ruling party?

That's true, but people see the one in power as the state! Power means the state!

What should we do now? They promised, but they didn't do it!

This is the state, it will build the houses sooner or later, it is not like the state is going to leave its citizens starving.

The people around have not lost their faith in the state, may our state be protected!

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But people are so cruel! 

How did they cut off aid because there were no votes for the opposition in the elections? The people of the region were completely left in the lurch, since the pro-government people were not helping them properly in the first place.

There was not enough help from the state either if the municipality was in opposition hands!

Our President has openly said that if you don't vote for him, don't expect any aid!

What should be done? How should he do it?

It is time for local elections, who to choose?

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Aren't human beings cruel? 

What kind of feeling is that? 

How can people be so cruel?

How can they immediately give up on aid because they don't get votes for their own party in the elections?

Or how can those in power be so unscrupulous because they don't own a municipality in that earthquake zone?

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Are people so unscrupulous? 

Or is life so cruel?

I think both situations are very grave!

It's as if the earthquake has happened and the region has gone numb! There is no feeling left! There is no connection left! It's as if it is no longer a part of the country!

Neither the state has shown enough interest, nor the old interest of the opposition citizens who helped until yesterday after the elections!

The state may have made the tenders for the houses, but it was not possible to finish them within a year as promised. It almost deceived its own citizens.

Did anyone in the region believe the promises of those days?

Of course they did! I still think the local people have not lost their faith.

May our state be spared!

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There is a tingling, but only at the very beginning, when the numb place comes to its senses, that painful moment when you can't decide whether to step on it or not, mixed with pain, will come, and only then will we feel that our feet are in place.

When that moment comes when we can stand on our own feet, all the pain will be gone.

For some, the pain in their hearts will never end, but when they are able to stand on their own feet, their pain will subside and they will feel that they are a part of this country again.

Until that day, keep an eye on the earthquake zone. Even if you don't feel it, those are the places where we are as one.

Let not elections be your criterion, we are one, if we will not support each other in difficult times, when will we support each other?

Love and respect to everyone from Moscow.