About the article from the eyes of New Journalism Project – 

To do good. That sounds banal. Maybe even superficial. But it’s not. On the contrary. That’s what it’s all about. From it, everything grows or wilts.

For a long time I felt like I was wilting. I felt like the plants in the garden, when summer comes. They do not die because I water them but they are also not really living; their vividness does not shine. They know they are not dead, and they are doing what they can, but that’s it.

Lies, deception, separating in order to control, thinking only of personal benefit, sacrificing others or forgetting that they even exist, intimidating in order to weaken and create despair. All of these forms create circles of fear and pain which are growing and growing. Joy and beauty, wisdom that gives life, are impossible and cannot live in such a place.

But tectonic plates have moved. The internal and public space is now free and ready for what’s time has come. Something has ripened. 

Sometimes the emptiness and pain have widened the birth canal and something new can be born. Sometimes the joy and our really good acquaintance with our nature, which loves to love and seeks to prosper in ancient and good wisdom, is the thing that does not let go, and demands to shine.

And now – to do good. To take responsibility and be happy about it, to speak the truth and know it is natural, to make decisions from there because that is the only way to create motion, possibilities and results. To love and care for everyone because that is how it is when we do not quarrel but believe in the human spirit. 

When we obey our nature, to what is true – the joy of life and the love of man will flow from us like an eternal spring. And when we deny it, refuse it and seek to control, we suffer and hurt, we get frightened and live in terror.