- Расскажу тебе одну притчу. Однажды некий человек...

“I will tell you one parable.” One day, a man went fishing in the sea. He caught only one fish, but large and beautiful, and brought it home. I must say that in his yard there was a pond where another fish lived, which a man had caught a long time ago, maybe five years ago. “Where are you from?” She asked the new one. “From the sea,” she answered. “From the sea?” Said the resident of the pond. “And what is it? What is it?” The new woman thought: “The sea is deep and huge. Imagine a thousand, no, a hundred thousand or even a million such ponds, and the sea is still larger.” "Full! Does this happen? All this nonsense!" - the old fish laughed. You see, she forgot. Once she also lived in the sea, but now she forgot, and the whole world has narrowed for her to the size of a pond. He preferred to plug his ears than to remember, than to find out again that the world has no boundaries, that somewhere out there the sea is always rustling.
My interlocutor is 29 years old, in fact, and my passport is 32. He is from Pakistan, we met in one of the many cafes in the Bukit Bintang district in Kuala Lumpur, where I wandered after a long day.
- You see, I had to get a job, but I was not yet the right number of years. Then I went to my school, my sister and I went to a school at the Christian church near the house. (Sharif is a Muslim). He told about everything, asked to give me new documents. I was told that this is illegal, but .. - Sharif makes a characteristic gesture, - the bribe decided everything. In Pakistan, everything is possible for a bribe. There, if you are an official or a military man, you can do anything. And if not ... then you should always get lower, bow down and ... yes, sir, there is, sir, okay, sir.
“That's why you left Pakistan?”
- Yes. In general, everywhere there are good people and bad ones. Everywhere.
“But are there more good ones?” - I am semi-interrogative, semi-affirmative.
“Yes, but do you know why?” Because good is in you. But God sees everything and sends only good people to you. What is inside of us is also outside. So it was, so it is and will be. And it doesn’t matter whether you are a Muslim or a Christian, God is one and one for all. Do you want to tell another parable?
A man caught a bird and put it in a cage with a high glass ceiling. The bird flew up to the ceiling, thought it was sky and hit glass. Then the ceiling was lowered lower, and the bird took off and hit. Then even lower. And then the ceiling was removed. But the bird did not fly up. She was afraid. But there is no need to be afraid. Gotta fly. Is always. Remembering the sky - always, that there are no borders, about freedom.
We were silent for a while and parted. Everyone went their own way. A road created by centuries of past lives and leading to Infinity. There are no borders.