Иностранец. Тайные игры

Kazhdyĭ mechtaet bytʹ glavnym. Kazhdyĭ khochet otdavatʹ prikazy. Kazhdyĭ khochet na vershinu. Kazhetsi͡a, chto tam, naverkhu, uzh tochno net problem. V li͡ubom sluchae kazhetsi͡a, chto, podni͡avshisʹ vverkh, luchshe kontrolirueshʹ, chto nakhoditsi͡a vnizu. I tolʹko tot, kto podni͡alsi͡a, znaet: ėto vse samoobman. Esli ty naverkhu, to tebi͡a stremi͡atsi͡a skinutʹ te, kto snizu. A te, kto sverkhu, nikogda toboĭ ne dovolʹny. Ibo, podni͡avshisʹ vverkh, ty stal khishchnikom.Poėtomu, dazhe esli ty podni͡alsi͡a na odnu stupenʹku, nuzhno karabkatʹsi͡a dalʹshe. Ibo ostanovka smerti podobna.

Everyone dreams of being in charge. Everyone wants to give orders. Everyone wants to go to the top. It seems that there are certainly no problems up there. In any case, it seems that when you go up, you have better control over what is below. And only the one who has risen knows: it's all self-deception. If you are at the top, then those who are at the bottom tend to throw you off. And those on top are never happy with you. For when you went up, you became a predator.Therefore, even if you have climbed one step, you need to climb further. For stopping death is like stopping death.