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"<p>Your job is tiring, you feel that you could work with greater strength and satisfaction elsewhere, with different people, under different living conditions. Human coexistence is exhausting, your family, loved ones, and friends are a burden, and you are driven by the desire to make new connections. You know every nook and cranny of your home blindly, and you hope to find comfort and peace of mind in your new, more modern, more comfortable home. Yes, you know the city where you were born, raised, and grew to manhood. Yes, you know the country that is your home, like a miner knows the mines where he has worked for forty or fifty years; you know it not only horizontally but vertically, with all its dangers and depths. And you have heard of foreign lands, of distant worlds, where conditions of human coexistence are fairer. You are tormented by doubts, urged and urged by the desire to leave your job, your family, your loved ones, your city, your country, and to tear yourself by violent movement from all that has been your life's environment. In the hour of temptation, examine your experience, your intellect, your character, and the true nature of worldly things in the light of these desires. New men cannot give you anything that will fundamentally change your attitude to the world; for only you can give yourself something decisive and substantial. Likewise, you remain a worker in a new workplace, and it is up to you to create for yourself the right job opportunities in the new situation. It's all up to you. Just so, in the new city, in the foreign country, where the conditions of human coexistence are more equitable, you will in time find the same human selfishness, greed, vanity, and malice that you found hateful in your homeland; for basic human nature does not change behind the barriers that mark the borders of countries. Moreover, you become a stranger; and to be a stranger is always to be a cripple. And it is one of the laws of man that you must always and unconditionally remain loyal to your country, even if that country treats its children in a tyrannical and unfair manner.</p> <p>So when do you have the right to violently change the circumstances, framework, and situation of your life? In no case, if you hope for an end to your boredom, the satisfaction of your desires, the satisfaction of your revenge. Remain where life has placed you, do your duty, and fill your soul with truth; you can have no more in the new world, nor the southern Isles. But if one day you find that your work, the environment, and conditions of your life, are not in accord with your character - then and only then will you resolve to change. And know that you remain the same through all change.</p>"
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