Raphael. The last generation with values.

About growing up, sincerity and the right to be alive.
Rafael Arzumanyan is 26 years old. An age when a person has already seen a lot, but has not been able to comprehend everything. Inside him is the voice of an observer, a participant, a survivor. He speaks quietly, without pathos, but his words are like a stone in water: they spread in circles.

"I think we are the last generation with values. There are none after us. Already different. Not bad - just deprived of this code. We still had it - in the voices of our parents, in the films that taught not only to win, but also to forgive."

Raphael does not romanticize. He looks into the eyes of time.
He says that we must live fully. And he adds, as if for himself:

"It seems there is still time. But there is not."

This internal paradox contains the whole truth of the generation. It is in a hurry because it senses the end of one era, but does not fully understand how to build another.

Prematurely Grown

"I was given a lot of responsibility, beyond my age. It gave me strength, but also fear. Learning to be yourself is hard when you've been wearing the armor of an adult since childhood."

Rafael admits: he is just learning. Not to be successful. Not to be strong. But to be himself. And in this process, the hardest thing is not to run away from the most important thing: vulnerability.

"Yes, there is a part that I am afraid to show. It is real. It is soft. But it is where I am."

A man who listens to himself

When bad days come, when everything seems pointless, Rafael does not look for external motivation. He listens to his inner voice.

"He speaks simply. He does not save. But he is alive. And he is mine."

In matters of good and evil, he chooses the difficult:

"I am overly kind. Sometimes it hurts. But I wouldn't want to be any different."

The right to be yourself

Raphael knows what revaluation of values is - not as a fashionable term, but as a personal experience.

"The dream changed because I realized that I was chasing the wrong thing. The value was not the same."

He doesn't want to change the world anymore. He wants to find his place in it, but not by any means.

"I don't want to be the person who regrets. Anything."

Turn to the reader

"One day I found myself in a place where I realized that no one would help me except me. Not my family, not my friends, not God, not the universe. Only me. That was the turning point. After that, I started to grow up."

He knows what it's like to lose friends. He knows what it's like to hide sincerity. He knows what it's like to live on the edge.
But from all this he took away one piece of advice - not feigned, not bookish, but lived:

Advice to readers from Raphael:

"As long as you are alive, you have the right to do what you want. Not for someone else. For yourself. True freedom is to do without prohibition. For yourself. For life. For feeling. For a dream.

And if no one can help you, then it’s time to become