# What have I lost? A philosophical questions for the approaching sixtieth anniversary

Vladimir Vladimirovich Zalesski

What have I lost? A philosophical questions for the approaching sixtieth anniversary.

MMLXIV. What have I lost? A philosophical questions for the approaching sixtieth anniversary.


Yes, the sixtieth anniversary is approaching! (My personal). And worldview questions arise.


What have I lost?


Somehow the era of religious and sincere, independent and self-sufficient people is gone off.


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It's possible to speculate about friends, comrades, colleagues ... About the pleasures of communication - personal and professional ...


Or maybe I lost the beaches of Egypt or Turkey?


Or - collective excursion trips to Europe or to other destinations? ...


Or - the any a position (a post)?


As a result, it is even incomprehensible: may be, I have lost something, or I have not lost anything.


Such is the time now, such a social environment, such a common culture ...


Sometimes I think: the diplomas - are they needed? Well ... First, honour thy father ... And - your mother ... Therefore, it's necessary to please them ... Secondly, it was necessary to earn a living. Thirdly, there weren't such a manors and such a number of influential relatives in important positions as the great writers had ...


Yes ... diplomas ... it's good ...


It is obscure ... to be sad ... or to look at the past and the future with a positive view ...


A some humorous questions turned out ... The answers are - rather, to a greater extent, - the optimistic ones...


March 13, 2021 21:13


Translation from Russian into English: February 25, 2021 22:32.

Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Что же я потерял? Философские вопросы к приближающемуся шестидесятилетию'.