Recently, she gave the newspaper an interview about bullying among teenagers and touched upon the topic of aggression and violence during the economic crisis. For me, who experienced the severe crisis of 2008 in Latvia and its consequences, it is quite obvious that during this period all relations between people are aggravated, and all human vices take on both contour and essential shapes. It's easy to be nice, generous and forgiving when you're doing well and nothing threatens your well-being and that of your family. But when fear and uncertainty overwhelm people, they change radically. And now, first sweet and ready to help, in front of their colleagues, they turn into squabbles, tyrants, informers and bastards who tear everyone who is dangerous to them and with whom it is difficult to compete and meet in a fair match.
I understand better than anyone what is happening to people here and now. I can feel this growing aggression and unwillingness to make concessions and compromises. All I can hear from all sides is that someone is quitting their jobs because a team that used to suit you has become a “terrarium of friends”, that they are hiring loyal managers and appointing “crisis managers” - robots who optimize everything in their path. People leave their jobs almost nowhere, only to maintain their mental and physical health and not become animals in the barnyard, whose behavioral strategies George Orwell has exhaustively written about. Remembering everything vividly, in a conversation with a journalist, I suddenly spoke hard-won truths that might help those who are now faced with difficult choices. Let me formulate them here, as they will not be included in our interview.
During a crisis, the main thing is not to lose yourself - not to turn into an animal hunted and always shuddering at the thought that familiar goods can disappear from his life overnight and is therefore ready for any meanness; or an animal that can raise anyone who threatens his present and future well-being into his fangs.
Anyway, in order to save yourself, you need to get off the barnyard in time and find a job where you feel confident and at ease, and ideally, be your own boss.
And the most important condition for surviving the crisis is to turn your family into a reliable bastion, behind whose strong walls love, compassion, mutual assistance, equality and brotherhood reign.
And another condition for waiting out the crisis like a plague is to surround yourself only with good, sincere, kind, disposed people you can rely on during the most difficult periods of your life.
And no toxic and strained relationships - they need to be broken off immediately.
I'm writing basic truths right now, but I'm overwhelmed by the idea that we are rapidly moving away from everything that is simple and understandable. I borrowed my truths that helped me through difficult times from Eastern philosophy, and they sound like this: we don't even realize that at any point in our lives we can throw out everything that gets in our way, and we must always keep death in mind to know why we need to do it from time to time.
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