Dmitry Troshin

Football business in Russia has never paid back, yielding only loses. We have our sport almost entirely funded by the state, which brings to the fact people feel reluctant to do something to advance. A private business also trying to invest into this sphere experiences losses as well. We are still approaching the Western pattern, where football clubs pay for themselves. I really hope that we get the point one day too. Well we definitely won’t if everything will be just as it is.

I wouldn’t say that travelling enriches me with some special emotions. I’ve been to the places you can stay for ever and you’ll not have to care a damn about anything on Earth if you do. Today everybody is discussing downshifting but that’s not my piece of cake. After some two or three weeks on holidays I can’t help thinking about coming back to this Moscow rhythm, to drunken guys by the metro station, to the newspaper stalls, to the crowd by the tube, to traffic jams and street boorishness. I lack the things sooner or later at any place, should it be a Paradise in itself. That is my House and here’s my place.

I happen to lack time for self-education due to my work. I am always experiencing spiritual hunger, I just never can have enough. Of course I manage to watch some worthy movies, to read something on the Internet, but I don’t have any global hobby as I just do not have enough time for the thing. Well, I do my best though.

I rarely evaluate myself, let it be other people. Self appraisal usually leads to deplorable consequences, to collapses and your self-appraisal discrepancies with other peoples’ opinion. And that is really bad.

I don’t know why but Russia is not a free and democratic state. I have never voted for the present government and I have nothing to accuse myself of. I have always taken part in the elections, indicating my civil position. But when they abandoned “against all” item, me being a considerable advocate of the latter, I ceased going to the event. They took away choice from me and once you don’t have one, all is left is to stay in the inner opposition. No, I do not show off with transparencies, but I am highly dissatisfied with the current situation in our country.

I adore being lazy, I would even say that’s my hobby (laughing). In the call of duty I work really much, I come back home late and have no time for some other things. I dream to wake up one morning, to turn on the TV and spend some 6 hours in such a way, being disturbed neither by people, nor by the phone. At the same time I wouldn’t say that I am a workaholic, I can both work hard and relax well.

I am sure there will be no other life, I don’t understand why people should console themselves with this kind of illusions. They invent such things to be less afraid to pass away.

I don’t advocate the fact everybody ought to go by the Biblical Commandments. But I try not to do evil to people. That makes other people love you and overall love adds wings to you and gives you positive energy. This is a kind of energy vampirism, positively charged though.

People have got accustomed to neglect such key human truths as kindness and honesty, while they take part in the overall hunt for money and everybody’s respect. There come very many severe people today, ready to violate something very important for the sake of their ambitions. People go over every line today, being sure that they are omnificent. I guess this may be the underlying reason why Russians can not be given real freedom.

They always teach us how to act and what to say. They teach us to look at the world rather than to see it. Who told you that the sky stands for the sky and the sun is the sun, I can proceed here. Castaneda has devoted his nine books to the issue. But there were few, who got the message. Any human value can be doubted. We are drummed with some stiff values. We do not get to the thing on our own. So I feel like rejecting everything imposed. And this is not a nihilism, this is rather a neonihilism I’d say.

I’ve met several people with several high educations, still extremely dumb. Wallpaper degree, should it be even red, does not stand for knowledge. Well, knowledge in itself stands for the past. We need to accumulate wisdom, which will enable us to look into the future. I can’t remember the author. Why should we care about the source of the bread — this is all food.