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[Alexandr Korol]

Why? Because in that paradise, there is this sweet temptation, where you think everything is perfect and you just want to become lazy. I wrote that people cannot be in paradise because they are too weak in front of these feelings, as these feelings eventually awaken laziness or something else. And in this regard, I have no trouble resisting it because I’ve been a workaholic since childhood, and I don’t even feel comfortable... Well, not that I don’t feel comfortable – I enjoy the feeling of happiness, like in “Forrest Gump”, but I’ve always noticed that when people fall into this world of happiness, they start turning into bad people because of it. And for me, that kind of test is not difficult – I never became arrogant in all these beautiful, sweet worlds that resemble paradise, in the world of the sky. In the world of the earth, with money and all material things, I always maintained balance. But look, in the underworld, it gets interesting... The madness begins, and I fall for it. It’s the same thing as... It’s real – the system is tormenting me. Like “47 Ronin” with Keanu Reeves – it’s shown very clearly there, and I already wrote about it before, but I’ll repeat it again. There’s an incredible test where they go into a forest to meet some sorcerers, and one person finds himself in a strange place. His task is not to touch the blade. And suddenly, terrifying things start happening – it seems to him that his entire army is being slaughtered, and he barely holds himself back from reacting. And imagine, I went through exactly that kind of test. I don’t know who else knows about this kind of trial, or who described it like that in the film, but this is a real initiation, a real test, and I failed it. So I did, in a way, take the blade. Maybe I just took it out without using it, but that’s already a weakness, and it’s disgraceful. Next time, when nightmares attack me like this, I need to be like Buddha – watching all of it and saying, “Alright, eat me if you want, I won’t react.” See, I didn’t handle it. But it’s interesting. Really interesting. Absolutely insane, what is happening.