In every person’s life there was at least one situation that caused him incredible pain. This situation hurt my soul and heart. And this pain did not last a single day, but for months and years it did not leave him. It seemed that this pain was everywhere - inside, outside, at home, on the street, in the looks of other people, in one’s thoughts, in every cell of the body. This pain pierced through and seemed to squeeze the person so much that he felt it more vividly than at all the presence of yourself in your life. This pain could not go away for a second, but as soon as it seemed to you that everything, period, it returned again with incredible force, and like a hurricane, swept away everything in its path. You were alone with this pain. Alone in this world. And no one, not even the most sympathetic, most empathetic and attentive person to you, could feel what you felt. Because, despite such a general word “pain”, for everyone it is different, with its own experiences, emotions and intensity. This pain filled everything - eyes in which there were tears, hands that did not rise and did not want to do anything, legs who didn’t want to go somewhere, the body as if it didn’t belong to you... You wanted to lie there, not think about anything, block the phone and yourself from the whole world. You wanted to shove yourself into a dark corner and hide there until better times, not breathe, not think, freeze in the hope that all this will let go, pass like a bad dream from which you will wake up... And you tried that, but nothing helped. And Do you know why? Because you put all your pain in a glass of water. But not just with water. There was a tablespoon of salt. And you drank this water, sometimes greedily, sometimes wincing, and sometimes adding another spoonful of salt to this water. You tortured yourself by looking at this glass and drinking again, remembering your pain and thinking about the impossibility of surviving it. Now imagine that I take you by the hand and lead you to a lake in the mountains. Now add the same spoonful of salt there, into this lake. How do you like drinking from a lake? Does the water seem as salty to you as it was in the glass? No? And you'd be right. Because your pain does not depend on the situation that happened to you, but on the place, on the container where you put it. And the larger this container, the simpler and easier it is to survive.