You Need It

I always wonder how people can ignore the things they don't like. I can't. Though it is usually difficult to get rid of of those annoying sad thoughts, you always need to find the way out. I'm trying. You need to be an optimist, I need it.

70 Years to Learn the Lesson

Poland fell in autumn like this. Its Army was unable to withstand such an unexpected and cynical aggression of the united aggressive regimes of Germany and USSR. The ‘civilized’ Western nations closed their eyes and gave Hitler Czechoslovakia. They were to afraid. Great Britain, France – they were afraid of the possible new big war, afraid of the inevitable changes in their lifestyles. Meanwhile, the aggressors just made the preparations. And the partition of Poland became the first action in a long movie.

The divided Europe – especially its Eastern countries – could say big ‘Thank you’ for the Western standards in quieting the aggressive political regimes. They welcomed the Red Army as a liberator in 1945, they drove them out as an occupant in the 1980s. The Eastern Europe nations suffered the most from that conflict and were so happy to return to the democratic standards in their lives.

Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact no more seems to be a warning for the modern Europe. One could notice the same sounds as in 1938 in the EU modern behavior. The comfort of living is a too big seduction. Who will care about a country with a constants mess in all spheres of life?

Today, the representatives of the Ukrainian intelligentsia called for the USA, Great Britain, France and China to convoke an International conference to secure the real guaranties of our country security as the Budapest memorandum doesn’t work any more. They asked the Western countries to be principal when Russia wants to interfere in our internal life once again.

As for me, I have no hope the West will hear them as we know too much examples when history doesn’t teach anything.

We got visas

We waited for three weeks and finally received them. They give us no garancy of going to England tomorrow. At least, they make an inspirition for thinking about going there. Sometimes it looks like an absurd - our country is not developed enough for us to be considered as the 'reliable' person. It is funny - big nations suffer from their own mistakes. So does Great Britain. At such moments I'm happy about living in Ukraine.

Hot 25 of the 25-years' life

They'll come in a week, my 25s. I just started realizing they underline a period in my life. Not that big and still important. How they say in their thick scientifical books - "the major achievements of the age?" Doesn't matter. I know, you understand what I wanna say. Well, they just say something to you. If you would hear them. To be a boring weeper who regrets for the past is the last thing I want to. I'd rather look on my life as a series of the funny snapshots. The ones you can find in the Year's Final Magazin with the photos from January to December. With all their smiles, crimes, weddings, disasters and victories. 'Then why funny?' - you can ask. 'Take it easy, my boy' - I would answer with Al Pacino's voice - 'Thay are all funny when you can talk about them with your friends.'

So, Mykhailo Ivanov's Top 25 Life Snapshots according to their significance are available just now

1. I was conceptioned. As my mother told me, she saw a dream of the aliens giving her a tablet :)
2. I was born with 4,7 kilos
3. I started writing before I could read what I wrote
4. I sat in a newly painted 'car' in my kindergarten. That was the first and the last day of my cool new suit and the first time from the many when I coloured my hair
5. I studied singing with an old man with bayan. He thought I could sing :)
6. I studied judo, karate, circus and swimming
7. I met Pavlo Ivanovych and thus stuck in TV for almost 10 years
8. I met my best friends. I really miss all of them
9. I tried beer for the first time and liked it
10. I didn't enter the university
11. I entered the university
12. I tried vodka and hash for the first time and didn't like it
13. I changed my lifestyle
14. I visited my first football match with 'Dnipro'
15. I've got new friends in University
16. I used to the toilets in a dormitory
17. I've been to Kyrylivka for the first time :)
18. I drank at 'Europe' with Frid
19. I was an active 'orange' in 2004
20. I travelled to Lviv with my friends for the first time
21. I started 'Nichna Zmina'
22. I met her
23. I kissed her
24. I married HER...
25. I'm gonna be a Godfather

The questions I ask

We need friends...
How often you miss this idea. We DO need friends. At the same, we MUST have a courage not to leave them. You change your place of living, you change your job. Are these the reasons to stop calling 'em?
Did you ever count them? Did your ever realize you may be alone without them? Strangely enough, isn't it? The world is small, in fact, and cruel. No, it won't be easy with them. You can not be a good guy for the many. You can BE, though. I hope, I AM not only here, in the flat I work in. Not only for the guys around me.
I always miss them... They are far away, they are in a 5 min's walk. I need to know they sometimes miss me, too.
I haven't been calling my best friend for six months... I forget their names... I want to expirience the moments of that closeness once again altough It's impossible.

Am I dissolving for them?...

Burn, Metalist, Burn! :))

The Dnipro's Break Through

Again football. Or - it is better to say - my nerves again. While testing them during the FC Dnipro games I used to establish a regrettable tradition as long as this team entered its streak of bad luck the year 2008.
It is always difficult to explain smbd why do you go on the stadium when the team's game worths virtually zilch. However, there is something in this sport you cannot explain. It happens when a set of the well-payed players becomes a part of your life, when a stadium transforms into the most visitable place in your city and the result of the game itself matters less then atmosphere on the arena. So, frankly speaking, I just felt - they will win this time.
How could they lose when at least a thousand of fans organized a spectacular procession along the central city streets? The march was planned beforehand, still, in a view of the current Dnipro's results it seemed as an expressive demonstration of the supporters' will to see their club's real strength. As a crowd approached a stadium shouting 'Dnipro' & 'Dnipropetrovsk', everybody undersood - It seemed to me - smth gonna happen.
Overtime. 90 + 1 min. Maksym Kalynychenko scores a goal with his head. Stadium roars.
Was that a Break Through we all waited for?