Feat

A feat is an outstanding, heroic deed, a victory of fearlessness, courage, will over fear and weakness. However, the dream of accomplishing a feat, of sacrificing one’s life, is the dream of a romantic, a frivolous person. “In life there is always a place for a feat, the main thing is to be away from this place.” There is no task to die heroically, there is a task to live with dignity. It is easier to notice a bright, thundering feat, but on a par with such there are quiet feats that are performed day after day, day after day, and go unnoticed. To perform feats, it is not necessary to rush into the embrasure, it is enough to courageously and calmly do the best for people every day that you are capable of. Live every day so that life becomes more beautiful and stronger.

Janusz Korczak brought up 200 orphans during the difficult war years. He did not just provide them with life — he gave them a strong, bright life — he made them people. And he did not leave them alone on the terrible journey to Treblinka. His feat did not ring loudly, it was a feat of every day, which proved that «there is still more good in the world than evil.» Towards death, he and his children went out under the green banner of King Matt. In his diary he wrote: “Warsaw is mine and I am hers. I will say more: I am she. One boy said to me, leaving the Orphans’ House: “If not for this house, I would not know that there are honest people in the world who do not steal. I didn’t know it was possible to tell the truth. I didn’t know there was truth in the world.»

Reading his immortal «Matiusz» — in which, it seems, the incarnation of Korczak himself, reading the story of the life and death of the great teacher, you ask yourself one single question: can I live this life as boldly, decently, strongly? Everyone will probably answer differently for themselves. But if one person did it, why not others?

It is very useful to read stories about the lives of wonderful people. These were (and are) absolutely real people, we meet them on the street, the only difference is that their life is a feat. Will we get to know each other?

What will be your feat?

It seems that feats are performed only by others, some special people far from us. However, lying down on the embrasure once is perhaps easier than actually taking care of loved ones every day, or at least going to bed on time. Daily feat is clear and simple. Your feat is a great and difficult task, for which you will especially respect yourself.

Thanks to Baron Munchausen from a wonderful film scripted by Grigory Gorin, this hint, of course, was given by him: “10.00. In the schedule of the day — Feat. Indeed, how is it: a day, and without a Feat?

What can be a feat?

• Have a difficult conversation with your mom without resentment? “I don’t claim that this is a feat, but there is something heroic in it …”
• Solution: “I’ll douse cold water all week!” We sing a song to the madness of the brave!
• Go to bed on time? “It just seems like a simple thing…
• Maybe your feat will be that you start running. And not just run for a while, but assign yourself a clear, defined route, and you will time each run — with the condition that during this week every day you must run at least for a second, but earlier than yesterday … Every day is a victory over yesterday’s self. However, perhaps after a while you will get used to it, then you will remove jogging from the category of a feat and do something else with a feat.
• Once — and throw out the TV!
• Pull up a little. Approached — and pulled up!
• Giving up computer games is easy: you erase directories and break boot disks.
• Enroll in the pool, forbid yourself dinner after 20.00 …

Maybe today your Feat will be to eat this nasty Frog, but it’s better if every day you have all these different things to do.

Today Frog: I’m going to the doctor. Today Cleanup: I’ll take apart the shelf in the kitchen. And also, today I will get up in an organized manner and have time to run to work, and today I will run not a shortened, but a full route, and make the final dash of 100 meters — long live the Feat!

The fresh wind of a possible feat invigorates and pleasantly cools the soul… As long as feats are possible in your life, you are alive, and ahead is your Maximum Life!