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Challenge #100englishdays
Hello! Could you please find mistakes and correct them? I'd be very thankful for everyone's help :)
All day it seems that I’m thinking about a lot of different and unimaginable things. Nevertheless, when I sit down to write something here all the thoughts in my head are becomeing void and insignificant. I can’t understand - there is my problem or the gist is in writing exactly in English I have trouble putting the gist of what I want to say into exact English. Recently more and more often there is a desire in my soul to give up and leave all attempts to complete this goal. The only thing stopping me from this spontaneous and foolish idea is awareness that in the long run, without any doubts, I’ll have to mount this challenge. Because if my indolence wins and I don’t do anything, I’ll lose all respect for myself. Furthermore, knowing my impermanent and restless nature, with stormy floods and sudden low-tides in my ocean of motivation, I definitely can declare that in a little while my desire will be awoken, and I will be back to square one and working from A to Z. However, then I’ll have to start from the very beginning, back to the first day and I will need to redo these hard days, weeks, months of writing again and again. Whereas right now I’ve already passed almost a third of the path and should stand out just a little more.
You know, I’m composing this text in Russian and realising how easy and loosely I handle with it. There aren’t any blocks or clogs in my way. I don’t have to squeeze out of myself picturesque sentenses. The words are being flown as an endless river and it seems that just my typing speed can interfere with this stream. Although for the last couple of years of constant practice my pace has overtaken my thoughts. Because sometimes, without this ability some valuable grains of the inner feelings are being missed. The grains which later can seem as an island of treasures for the strayed soul in the dark wood.
When all thoughts pop out from the gate of subconsсiousness on the paper, then I’ll try another style of writing. Earlier I used to note everything instantly in English, so now I’ll try being a translator. Then I’ll decide which kind of activity comes easier to me. Although I’ve still reckoned that it’ll be much more productive to write everything just in the foreign language.
29/100This was pretty good. Make sure to use commas after conjunctive adverbs (such as "however") and around dependent clauses. I wasn't entirely sure what this sentence meant: "there is my problem or the gist is in writing exactly in English". If you write it in Russian I might be able to translate it better. -Michael
0 votedFebruary 28, 20162In any situation a good follower is more important than a good leader
The suggestion (an allegation usually implies that someone acted badly) that a good follower is always better than a good leader is very controversial from my point of view.
Can you imagine what a group of obedient followers without a leader would do in a critical situation? Think of real followers who are not used to taking responsibility, who avoid making decisions, and who lack the charisma to convince others to follow. In the best case scenario, a group without a leader will reach a basic decision. Nevertheless, the speed in making the decision will be deteriorated. But time is of the essence.
On the other hand, I believe that a society inhabited only with leaders cannot remain stable. Remember the experiment described in "Brave new world" by Aldous Huxley: an island inhabited with alphas, an (in-born leaders who are able to take responsibility, to make the right decisions and to do intellectual work), turned to a state of constant riots and revolutions. The in-born leaders refused to obey and to do dirty jobs. Thus, a group of leaders without those who ready to follow and execute is equally useless as a group of followers without a leader. Adding parentheses to the second sentence makes it easier to understand which subordinate clauses apply to the "in-born leaders". Also, something to consider, when the senetence's subject has multiple infinitive verbs, it sounds more natural to only use the word "to" with the first infinitive, for example "...refused to obey and to do dirty jobs."
As a result, there is no black and white in real life and any situation demands both good followers and good leaders do their respective jobs properly.0 votedFebruary 27, 20163
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