Rules for living (draft)

Observe. The kind and the unkind, the ‘modest peculiarities’.1 Absorb, and emit back, the kind. Refrain from critique as attack. (Some of it will come out anyway. In any case, it is a waste of breath.) The answer is, no one knows. There are no rules. (omitted) “The only true and lasting meaning of the struggle for life lies in the individual, in his modest peculiarities, and his right to these peculiarities.” (Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate)↩