October 2025

Stronger

The last few days have been very difficult and I feel like I lack some kind of support. But on the other hand, I don’t need it, because I don’t know what it should be. There is no force that would change anything in my life more than I can do on my own. But sometimes I don’t have enough strength to drag this world along.

Today, as an example, I was stopped by the police for the first time in my life. For…driving a three-wheeled electric scooter. I didn’t break anything, the scooter has a 1.5 kW engine and, accordingly, is not a mechanical vehicle according to our laws, so it doesn’t require registration and a license, but, at the same time, that’s exactly what they asked me for. Why? Because there was nothing else to complain about. I was driving according to the rules, the lights were on, I turned on the turn signal where it should be, we were both riding in helmets. Moreover, they specifically drove after us and caught up with us by about 1.5-2 kilometres. That is, they were driving after us purposefully. It’s hard to say whether it was to see if I was eligible for military service and why I’m still not fighting (they even asked me about the reason for my exclusion from the register), or to ask about the new transport in the city, but they let me go without any written or verbal warning. It’s hard to say what it was, but it’s unpleasant.

Often the world is tougher on us than it should be, because today, epically, I was almost hit by a car that didn’t let me through when I was driving on the main road. No matter how you say it, everyone is always “right” except me. Life? Ugh…

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As a child, sometimes when asked “How are you?” people would answer “plus-minus”. This meant that something good or bad was happening in life.

Now a lot of things in my life are connected with electricity (in general, my ability to work depends on electricity and I get to work on an electric three-wheeled cargo scooter), but because of the shelling we have been without electricity for several days now. In my case, everything is not so bad, because I prepared the “ground of comfort” long before the war. And that’s why my house is mostly powered by the battery of an electric bicycle. Which I recently assembled. But for other people it’s getting worse, sometimes someone writes that people are “planning to leave”, but I think it’s more of a rumor, because those who wanted to leave have already managed to.

So today this is my work. So today I have a new drawing on myself…