Today, I feel like a rebel.

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I love the world — but I disagree with such a big part of what it’s doing.

That’s possible, right? We know it is as soon as we look at our relationships with our parents, partners and children. We love them. But what they do often seems ridiculous.

I rebel against myself, too. Why am I pushing myself to do anything at all, while I am gradually discovering how predetermined the reality may be? But is it?

I am rebelling against my own writing, for I have reshaped it into a job. Nobody wants a job. Everybody wants passion. And I am no different.

We also want a multitude of other things, including beautiful bodies, clean planet, peaceful society and a bright future. Then why are we not doing everything in our powers to achieve that? Why, in spite of all the available knowledge and even the so-called common sense, do we keep buying plastic bags and paper cups, for example?

Maybe because, indeed, most of us believe, on a very deep level, that much of what happens in the world is predetermined anyway.

But there is a chance that it isn’t — and if you think about it intensely for a minute, you will agree. There is a chance — let’s not go into how big — that what we’re doing on an individual level matters a great deal. If not for the entire Universe, then maybe at least for…