We can argue as long as we like about the priority of free will versus the rights of other people, or acknowledgement of fatal necessity. Humankind for a long time has amused itself with these games, but nevertheless the statement is true, each of our actions implies choice. No matter if the reality we live in is the best or the worst of all possible, not a single one of them can give any guarantee but offers possibilities. Maybe, our life consists of multiple possibilities and each time choosing one of them we take actions from the most trifling at the first sight up to the fateful. Although, who can draw a border separating important things from trivia?

The butterfly effect Ray Bradbury wrote of reminds of a cruel and absolute connection of all our deeds in the endless time dimension. Therefore, the question “how not to make a mistake?”, as a consequence of another choice, we are not given a chance to replay at least a couple on one hand, is legitimate and on another — not logical. Who knows the reality of possibilities of the same situation? Here one comes to the eternal Hamlet like question, what to do? The answer is not less ageless and may be for this reason true, to live. Thousands of times Nietzsche is right reminding us of the fact that “death is impossibility of the further choice”.

So, whilst we choose, we live. And no matter how painful the choice is its existence is a proof of our free will and our right to differ from the other of our or other species in the world of nature. Same as in the famous story: “Once God created the world and filled it with creatures resembling each other. And then He made them different to make their life in this world more interesting. Some wanted to fly and Creator gave them wings and called them birds. Others wished to swim and He gave them fins and called them fishes. Third part wanted to run fast and God gave them this possibility calling them animals. Next part asked to make them small and He made

them so, calling them insects. And then God asked the last ones:
‘And what do you want?’
‘We want to be what we’ll wish’ — they said.
Then God gave them choice and called them people’.
Therefore, it is our right to choose between love or indifference, loyalty or betrayal, having Motherland

or not having it, resist the circumstances or step back to in front of them, believe in your strength or wait for others to help, destroy or build, live in virtuality laying on the sofa proud of your importance or fall and rise again in reality. And yet it won’t give the possibility to find out if the choice was good or wrong but will give the unquestionable right for the freedom of one’s choice. Because we are People.

Lara Lychagina

Editor-in-Chief