When you put the first grain on the scale of the bad thoughts, you should be ready that this scale pan will soon be full and you’ll soak to the very bottom. At first you do that only in your thoughts and devil’s advocate will be consoling himself that these are nothing but innocent fantasies. But actually every fantasy of such kind is drawing you closer to him like a fish on a hook, like an old man his marling and he won’t leave you alone anymore. That is why when you’re going to swallow the hook you have to think whether you want to become this fisherman’s dinner… But… Youth and reason like day and night are on the different poles of life. The luckiest man is the one the starlight shows the right way and those who can’t read these signs are to be regretted.
Synthetic
On a warm October evening Jacob in a good mood came out to the yard where Barney and Nicole were waiting for him. Pleasant light wind was freshing the air removing the heat from the pavement.
«Have you seen that commercial?» he ased his friends, «You don’t have to sweat in the gym to make your abs great! – Huh! So you can become just like Arnold without any working out? And what happens when they’ll learn to put the knowledge into the heads without any effort of their owners? Huh? Can you imagine, the years of suffering – just like that…» he loudly clicked his fingers.
«Why would you need that?» Nicole asked, «You are in a great shape.»
«That costs a mint of money so it’s not for everyone, get it?» Barney said.
Jacob’s family was having a tough time: his father didn’t have any concerts recently, his family was supported by his mother who was a doctor in a hospital. She got nice money and the family wasn’t lacking the necessities but Jacob wouldn’t take the money for his own need from his mothers, he had part time jobs either as a home help for an old professor of biology or delivering the groceries to the lonely old people. All of them were very willing to use his services: he wouldn’t simply deliver the products and then go away. Oh, no, he would have a seat, tell about news in the world and in the city… In short, he bought his jeans and phone himself but Synthetic that was being promoting on every street corner was too pricey for his pocket.
Barney’s family, on the contrary, was doing better and better. He didn’t mention that but his father was one of the co-owners of this new start-up but when the commercial for Synthetic started going throughout the city Barney got a new life and as it usually happens new opportunities often open the doors the demons that were sleeping out of weakness.