Excessive purposefulness sometimes interferes with the achievement of the goal. Reflections of Vladimir Vishnevsky.
“This line, known to someone from the song of Alexander Bashlachev, actually belongs to the wonderful poet Alexei Didurov, my departed friend. (The quotation was mutually conscious and friendly.) My generation, originally from Soviet childhood, grew up to the refrain «Whoever wants, he will achieve.» It was repeated in every way: you just have to really want it! And we were zealous, achieving, acting, setting all sorts of goals, at different turns of our biography … And how many efforts turned out to be vain and futile! But there is such an expression — «let go of the situation.» When, remembering the dignity and exhaling in our hearts: “But burn it!”, We stopped breaking into closed (and not those) doors, everything suddenly happened and easily came true. And then this came, already classic: they themselves come and give everything. And I’m already tired. I do not need it anymore. And this is also familiar to almost every man who is free to remember how his very great desire scared away the desired woman. But then he woke up, cooled down and … However, this is a classic: “The less we love a woman …” But attention: it works only naturally! That is, if you don’t build ingenious tactics: I’ll pretend to be lost in desire … «
* Alexei Didurov (1948–2006), poet, bard.