[General] A short metaphor

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Nick D. Lukashevich

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I was walking along the railway platform and I pictured how I ballooned myself up and flew right up to the skies. In a cool way, just like Mary Poppins would do. And then I just exploded into thousands of little pieces, so everyone would get a bit of me. Just one little piece.

This of course is not possible; there is no way one can make oneself into a balloon or blow up, or anything like that. But it's not bad, it's not at all bad to look at the skies that are not much of a blue. It's OK not to have a sandwich with strawberry jam by the hand. For it makes us strive to find something else, something brighter. It makes us dream.

And when you dream, you create — be it music, writing, singing, or whatnot — and you do share a bit of yourself.
 

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Welcome to the forum. :)
I was walking along [STRIKE] the [/STRIKE] a railway platform, and I pictured [STRIKE] how I ballooned [/STRIKE] myself [STRIKE] up [/STRIKE]all inflated like a balloon and [STRIKE] flew [/STRIKE] flying right up to the skies, in a cool way, just like Mary Poppins would do. And then I just exploded into thousands of little pieces, so everyone would get a bit of me, just one little piece.

This of course is not possible; there is no way one can [STRIKE] make [/STRIKE] turn oneself into a balloon or blow up, or anything like that. But it's not bad. It's not at all bad to look at the skies that are not much of a blue. It's OK not to have a sandwich with strawberry jam [STRIKE] by [/STRIKE] in the hand, for it makes us strive to find something else, something brighter. It makes us dream.

And when you dream, you create — be it music, writing, singing, or whatnot — and you do share a bit of yourself.
 

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Welcome, Nick!

Do you have a question? Does it have something to do with literature?
 

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Moved to Editing & Writing Topics.
 

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Nick D. Lukashevich, that's pretty good for somebody whose first language is Russian. There is one thing that puzzles me, thus:

It's OK not to have a sandwich with strawberry jam in your hand. (Edited.)

I can't figure that out.
 

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I'd say, "in hand," "in your hand," or "in my hand" — not "in the hand."
 

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But what does it mean?

(Maybe the OP will tell us.)
 

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Nick D. Lukashevich, that's pretty good for somebody whose first language is Russian. There is one thing that puzzles me, thus:

It's OK not to have a sandwich with strawberry jam in your hand. (Edited.)

I can't figure that out.
Having a strawberry jam sandwich in your hand might be a Russian expression for everything being rosy.

But it looks like Nick has left the building.
 

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The OP's last activity on this site was one minute after posting this thread, nearly three weeks ago.
 

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