Did you know that the first female supercentenarian (someone reaching the age of 110) was also the first person whose life spanned three centuries?
Margaret Ann Neve was born in Guernsey in 1792. Her father was a wealthy privateer who died aged 49.
She remembered the #French#Revolution & visited #Waterloo just after the battle. She was married but childless. She did not eat or drink between meals, climbed an apple tree aged 110 & got her first ever illness at age 105.
As a #russian I’ve read this book hoping to understand the current situation better. It is affecting me emotionally in the ways I am not ready to share, but the most important thing is, it shows how people are not that different anywhere and how decisions are driven by personal loyalties, family dynamics and personal experiences more often than by commitment to ideals/ideologies good or ill
As a German, with a confusingly divided family history concerning my nationality's particular history - remember that what happens around you is not your fault - your reaction to it is what matters.
Ideologies are rarely (or ever) shared uniformly by all, but the consequences of them are often accepted because it is easier & safer than resisting.
The fact that you're conflicted means you are more concious than most.
