Vasilisa Kobets
1 min readAug 8, 2020

Kartika Prasad. Let me give you an example. In December 2014 it happened that I was in a country thousands of miles away from my home because the war started where I lived (Donetsk) and I had to run away to survive. I had no job (the contract finished), no money (no job-no money, easy), and nobody I asked for help - to let me stay in their house for a week or two before I find a solution helped me. I had no documents to work in that country and I didn't speak the local language. What happened? Since I didn't really see sleeping under the bridge as an option, I managed to find a job in 3 days and rented a room to stay. 3 years later one Russian guy was in exactly the same situation in exactly the same country. What did he do? He was complaining in social media that people are bad and not helping him, and he has no money and nowhere to stay. For more than a month he was only asking people for money in the streets. Now, my position of not helping weak people is more clear to you?

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