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When I asked my psychologist, how to digress from a problem, she told me that the best way is to find another problem, which will be pleasant for you. Or you can do something to let you feelings out, but nobody should know about it. And then she gave me a book by July Larny, which is called

"An offendless revenge". This book is about a man, his name is Martin, who married a woman and had to take part in her family's business. His salary was pretty high, his job was not very difficult, he was always with his relatives, so everything seemed to be fine. But very soon he understood that these people were not a family, they were a bunch of snakes, who tried to make profit of everything, every of whom wanted to be higher than the others were, they always lied, deceived people and each other. He tried not to notice it, but he couldn't, every day he waited for a blow to his back. He wanted to stop working with them, but he didn't know how to tell them about this (he just had no reasons), he didn't want to find fault with his wife. But step by step, it became unbearable. Once, Martin came home from his work, he heard accidentally as his father-in-law was up to do something against his son. Martin was deeply depressed, he was sitting on the sofa, thinking about nothing. Suddenly he got up and rushed out from his apartment. He went to the zoo shop, bought some snakes and went with them to his country house. He placed them in cages, sat down in front of them and stared at them...

They were the same, yes, just the same: so calm and silent bysight and so dangerous and an predictable inside... He drove back to his apartment without feeding them. He didn't feed them at all. He came to the country house every day and watched how they died slowly. And then a terrible thing happened, his wife's brother was killed, all his shares were given to his father.

Martin understood that his father-in-law did this... He killed his son for the sake of shares!!! This was the last straw, this evening Martin went to the country house, carefully took all the snakes out of their cages and made them bite each other. With great pleasure he watched how they died. Then he went to the zoo shop and bought some snakes again, but when he was driving to the country house, accidentally the door of the cage opened... All snakes creeped out of there, they crawled to Martin, wrapped his legs...

He didn't know what to do, he tried not to move, but suddenly one snake bit him and all the others began to bite him too. Martin got out of the car, but nothing could help him now, there was too much poison in his body. The one thing he was able to do was to write a few words. When he was found, there was his diary near him and it was written :" They made me live with them and they killed me". But nobody understood the meaning of this words...

I can't say that I liked the story very much, but when I read it I was really impressed by it. I can't say that I felt sorry for this man, I don't know why but I didn't. I've got another feeling. A feeling that I took part in this story, that I was someone, whom Martin told all his thoughts and feelings. And I was watching and praying for him to put up with all his problems, for him to find strength and finally to do something to break with his family. But I've got a strange feeling when he died, like for a long time I was coming to the same market and looked at a wonderful thing, which I was eager to buy, but when I finally got money and came to the market to buy this thing, it had already been bought! The feeling was the same, frustration, emptiness. And after I read the story I understood that clearness of our soul and conscience, our peace are very important things.

By Tanya Trushina