Sooner or later, you'll probably ask yourself: why does this person hate them so much? (I think you understand which country's residents I'm talking about)
You all know about the situation in Ukraine. Many of you are probably tired of this news and living your best life. But Ukrainians' lives have stopped.
My story is that I had a friend. We'd known each other since 2016.
He died, like thousands of others. It hurts when someone you don't know dies. But when your friend dies, you start looking at it from a different perspective. It's so painful that you can't hold back tears and have a lump in your throat. You sleep and dream where he says he's alive and everything is fine with him.
This is the new reality.
This isn't a game: there are no cheat codes, saves, mods, cloning, or God here. There's only one life, and if it ends, that's it. You can't go back to the past to hug someone or at least say goodbye. No one is ready to say goodbye while there's time, because everyone believes that life can't end so quickly and easily. Eventually, this person dies in your arms again and again, lives in your head and you start going insane.
Your feelings and emotions become dulled. Your hatred grows. You're ready to go seek revenge with bare hands. They sit there and laugh, indifferent or glad that they're sowing chaos.
Imagine the person closest to you or something most precious to you. Imagine someone holding you and destroying everything you love before your eyes: home, family, loved ones. And you watch this shift+delete in your reality, completely powerless.
When your dog dies in your arms, terrified by explosions, and you look into his eyes filled with tears, and you can't explain what's happening and why the "fireworks" don't end.
What's next?
Everything crumbles to dust, ash and burns like a match, while this pain that you can't contain with anything destroys you from within. You go home and look at hundreds of ways that could end your suffering.
Besides destroying physically, they destroy Ukrainians morally. Shattered dreams, crippled lives.
They wrote: "we are against war" - but in reality nothing will change. Their friends and relatives will continue launching huge drones and missiles, and they'll continue living in a country that has drowned countless others in blood. Living peacefully, playing games, making mods, screenshots and not understanding what they're hated for?
If you consciously use mods, screenshots from russians and communicate with them as if nothing happened - you're supporting everything I described above.
