"You think you work hard? You spoiled American brats have no idea how good you have it!
"In Old Country, every day, the Commissars would chain me to a plow, and force me at gunpoint to plow an entire field. I worked twenty hours a day, except in Spring, when I work double shifts. Then, they would keep me awake by driving nails into my eyes and shouting in my ears through a bullhorn. I was not allowed to rest until they ran out of insults. Six weeks, it would usually take them. When my shift was finally done, they would take a pitchfork and stab me through the heart, and throw me into an open grave. And in the morning they would wake me up by beating on the grave, shouting 'Get up, Josif! Get to work!'"
"In Old Country, every day, the Commissars would chain me to a plow, and force me at gunpoint to plow an entire field. I worked twenty hours a day, except in Spring, when I work double shifts. Then, they would keep me awake by driving nails into my eyes and shouting in my ears through a bullhorn. I was not allowed to rest until they ran out of insults. Six weeks, it would usually take them. When my shift was finally done, they would take a pitchfork and stab me through the heart, and throw me into an open grave. And in the morning they would wake me up by beating on the grave, shouting 'Get up, Josif! Get to work!'"
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felicia_____:
It seems that you are much more of an optimist than I.
wildswan:
Where are you? Where do you need to be? Why have you assessed yourself as being so far away from that place?