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About Hopelessness

Your post reached into my soul. I know what it's like to feel that you're drowning while the world keeps spinning. I can't take away your pain, but I can share something with you — three moments from my life that changed how I see hopelessness.

I want to tell you a few metaphorical situations that ACTUALLY happened in my life. Situation 1. Winter has begun in my city. It snowed heavily that day, and it suddenly got very cold. I was walking down the street and saw a pigeon trying to fly but unable to fly far. I picked it up. The pigeon obviously understood that it should stay away from me as a human, but the warmth of my hands was better than the frost of the street: the pigeon resigned itself to fate and stopped struggling. I brought it home and put it in a large cage, sprinkled food. I saw that his beak was tapping on the surface with food. Five days later, there was a dark green liquid droppings in the cage, and the pigeon still couldn't fly. I realized something was wrong with the pigeon.

I started looking for information, and I found a specialist who knows a lot about pigeons. Thanks to him, I realized I had a fledgling at home, a young pigeon, a chick. AND IT JUST DOESN'T KNOW HOW to eat on it's own yet, that's why the droppings were green… That means my pigeon had been hungry for 5 days! It lived for 5 days without food or water and didn't die! Obviously, when I found it, it was also exhausted from hunger and frost…

I started force-feeding and watering the pigeon, then it learned to do it on its own. Two months later, I released the pigeon. The bird soared high into the sky!

Situation 2. Sometimes mice appear in my garden house. I catch them in a «humane trap» and let them go… I leave a large piece of dried bread in the trap to keep the mice alive… But sometimes it happens that I'm not in the garden for two or three days, and a trapped mouse dies. Most likely it dies from hunger, because in such a situation, my bread disappears…

The young pigeon from the previous story survived without food and water for more than 5 days, a mouse dies after two days, even with some food… Maybe they're different creatures and can't be compared… But it seems to me that mice die more from stress, panic, and a sense of hopelessness than from hunger…

Situation 3. I have a water tank in my garden. One day I saw a beautiful bird in it, trapped by thirst. I don't know how long this bird had been floating, it looked very exhausted and tormented. But it was trying with all its might to stay afloat and not drown. When I saw this bird, I understood what hopelessness and despair ACTUALLY look like… The bird found its salvation through me when there was no hope at all…

The conclusions I personally drew for myself:

Panic kills more than a situation or a trap…

Even when you objectively fall into a trap, it doesn’t mean that this is the end…

I hope it helps in your difficult time!


Я хочу рассказать тебе несколько метафорических ситуаций, которые НА САМОМ ДЕЛЕ произошли в моей жизни.

Ситуация 1.
В моём городе началась зима. В этот день выпало много снега и неожиданно сильно похолодало. Я шла по улице и увидела голубя, который взлетал, но не мог улететь далеко. Я взяла его в руки. Голубь, очевидно понимал, что от меня как от человека , нужно держаться подальше, но тепло моих рук было лучше мороза улицы: голубь покорился судьбе и перестал трепыхаться. Я принесла его домой и посадила в большую клетку, насыпала корм. Я видела что он клювом стучит по поверхности с кормом. Прошло 5 дней в клетке был жидкий помет темнозеленого цвета, голубь по-прежнему не мог летать. Я поняла, с голубем что-то не так.

Я начала искать информацию, и нашла специалиста, который много знает о голубях. Благодаря ему я поняла, что дома у меня находится слёток, то есть молодой голубь, птенец. И ОН ПРОСТО ЕЩЕ НЕ УМЕЕТ есть самостоятельно, от того и помет зелёного цвета... То есть мой голубь был голодным втечение 5 дней! 5 дней он жил без еды и воды и не умер! Очевидно, когда я его нашла он так же был обессиленным от голода и мороза...

Я начала насильно кормить и поить голубя, потом он научился это делать самостоятельно. Через два месяца я выпустила голубя. Птица взмыла высоко в небо!

Ситуация 2.
В моем садовом днмике иногда появляются мыши. Я их ловлю в гуманную ловушку и отпускаю... В ловушке я оставляю большой сухарь, чтобы мыши не погибали... Но бывает случается так, что меня нет в саду два- три дня, то пойманная мышь в ловушке гибнет. Скорее всего она умирает от голода, так как в такой ситуации в ловушке отсутствует, исчезает, мой сухарь...

Птенец голубя из предыдущей истории выжил без еды и воды более чем 5 дней, мышь погибает через два дня, даже с какой-то едой... Может это разные существа и сравнивать их нельзя... Но мне кажется , что мыши погибают скорее от стресса, паники и ощущения безысходности, чем от голода...

Ситуация 3.
У меня в саду стоит бак с водой. Однажды я увидела в нем красивую , попавшую в капкан жажды птицу. Я не знаю сколько времени эта птица провела на воде, выглядела она очень истощенной и измученной. Но при этом она всеми силами старалась держаться на воде и не тонуть. Когда я увидела эту птицу, я поняла как НА САМОМ ДЕЛЕ выглядит безысходность и отчаяние... Птица через меня нашла своё спасение, когда надежды не было никакой...

Какие выводы сделала лично я для себя:
1)Убивает не ситуация или безысходность, убивает паника...
2) Даже когда объективно ты попал в западню, это не значит, что это конец...

Надеюсь, это поможет в твоё непростое время.

Corrections

I know what it's like to feel thatlike you're drowning while the world keeps spinning.

"like" is more natural here.

Winter hasd begun in my city.

"had" is the past tense of "has"

I was walking down the street and saw a pigeon trying to fly but (it was) unable to fly far.

Poetically you could omit the "it was", but it's more natural to include it I think.

I brought it home and put it in a large cage, and (fed it / sprinkled food in the cage).

If you're attached to the image of sprinkling food, you kind of need to elaborate more here like specifying where you sprinkled it.

That said, most native speakers would probably just say they fed it.

Five days later, there was aere dark green liquid droppings in the cage, and the pigeon still couldn't fly.

"were" since "droppings" are plural

Sometimes mice appear in my garden house.

"garden" is an outdoor area, "house" is an indoor area, both at once is contradictory.

I catch them in a «humane trap» and let them go…

We don't use « in English, when we quote we use ". I'm not sure this needs to be quoted unless you're trying to make them scare quotes.

The young pigeon from the previous story survived without food and water for more than 5 days, but a mouse dies after two days, even with some food…

Added "but" here as it makes a more natural feeling of contrast.

About Hopelessness


Your post reached into my soul.


I know what it's like to feel that you're drowning while the world keeps spinning.


I know what it's like to feel thatlike you're drowning while the world keeps spinning.

"like" is more natural here.

I can't take away your pain, but I can share something with you — three moments from my life that changed how I see hopelessness.


I want to tell you a few metaphorical situations that ACTUALLY happened in my life.


Situation 1.


Winter has begun in my city.


Winter hasd begun in my city.

"had" is the past tense of "has"

It snowed heavily that day, and it suddenly got very cold.


I was walking down the street and saw a pigeon trying to fly but unable to fly far.


I was walking down the street and saw a pigeon trying to fly but (it was) unable to fly far.

Poetically you could omit the "it was", but it's more natural to include it I think.

I picked it up.


The pigeon obviously understood that it should stay away from me as a human, but the warmth of my hands was better than the frost of the street: the pigeon resigned itself to fate and stopped struggling.


I brought it home and put it in a large cage, sprinkled food.


I brought it home and put it in a large cage, and (fed it / sprinkled food in the cage).

If you're attached to the image of sprinkling food, you kind of need to elaborate more here like specifying where you sprinkled it. That said, most native speakers would probably just say they fed it.

I saw that his beak was tapping on the surface with food.


Five days later, there was a dark green liquid droppings in the cage, and the pigeon still couldn't fly.


Five days later, there was aere dark green liquid droppings in the cage, and the pigeon still couldn't fly.

"were" since "droppings" are plural

I realized something was wrong with the pigeon.


I started looking for information, and I found a specialist who knows a lot about pigeons.


Thanks to him, I realized I had a fledgling at home, a young pigeon, a chick.


AND IT JUST DOESN'T KNOW HOW to eat on it's own yet, that's why the droppings were green…


That means my pigeon had been hungry for 5 days!


It lived for 5 days without food or water and didn't die!


Obviously, when I found it, it was also exhausted from hunger and frost…


I started force-feeding and watering the pigeon, then it learned to do it on its own.


Two months later, I released the pigeon.


The bird soared high into the sky!


Situation 2.


Sometimes mice appear in my garden house.


Sometimes mice appear in my garden house.

"garden" is an outdoor area, "house" is an indoor area, both at once is contradictory.

I catch them in a «humane trap» and let them go…


I catch them in a «humane trap» and let them go…

We don't use « in English, when we quote we use ". I'm not sure this needs to be quoted unless you're trying to make them scare quotes.

I leave a large piece of dried bread in the trap to keep the mice alive…


But sometimes it happens that I'm not in the garden for two or three days, and a trapped mouse dies.


Most likely it dies from hunger, because in such a situation, my bread disappears…


The young pigeon from the previous story survived without food and water for more than 5 days, a mouse dies after two days, even with some food…


The young pigeon from the previous story survived without food and water for more than 5 days, but a mouse dies after two days, even with some food…

Added "but" here as it makes a more natural feeling of contrast.

Maybe they're different creatures and can't be compared…


But it seems to me that mice die more from stress, panic, and a sense of hopelessness than from hunger…


Situation 3.


I have a water tank in my garden.


One day I saw a beautiful bird in it, trapped by thirst.


I don't know how long this bird had been floating, it looked very exhausted and tormented.


But it was trying with all its might to stay afloat and not drown.


When I saw this bird, I understood what hopelessness and despair ACTUALLY look like…


The bird found its salvation through me when there was no hope at all…


The conclusions I personally drew for myself:


Panic kills more than a situation or a trap…


Even when you objectively fall into a trap, it doesn’t mean that this is the end…


I hope it helps in your difficult time!


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