"Labyrinth of contention"
Construction of the maze was a real challenge for the participants. On the third day, Irina had dizziness, Katya had a backache, Tolik parried his finger, and Victor threatened the psychologist.
| "Why do we have to expand them again? We narrowed here. I do have brain cancer already!" |
Tension was growing each minute. The hardest hit for them was not even physical but emotional. Irina was the first to be nervous. She and Katya had a hard time to join the process, as they spent the night in silence and the guys have already done half of the work without them. Therefore, it was difficult for her to understand on what basis you need to build a track of the maze.
"Why do we have to expand them again? We narrowed here. I do have brain cancer already! We have tones of unfinished work! I wish I kept silence all week,"- she complains while working.
In contrast to Irina, Katya did not lose a positive attitude. She got distracted by a small lizard, fearfully flashing between stones, and she was voicing her associations.
"Before, with my parents we went to pick mushrooms, I was not allowed to smoke ..." - she remembers.
However, a little later, she also gets tired, noting out loud: "I think I am going to see this maze in my dreams!" And to the phrase, "Let's go eat!" she commented: "I do not want this labyrinth!"
The next day the situation escalated even more. It seemed that the more the participants moved closer to completing the work, the harder it became to keep their emotions. The weakest in this regard was Victor. On this day he was particularly talkative, probably the reason for this was a daily silence. To the question of Fatima Raimkulova, the psychologist, under whose direction the ancient construction was built, what he can say about the maze, Victor snapped: "Nothing!"
"What did not you like?" - the psychologist asks.
| "Victor only muttered: "I also know how to bite”. |
"But in general, you didn’t initially explain everything! First carrying stones, and today the pyramid building. You have a new assignment every day, I just do not understand: today it is one way tomorrow it’s different. Give the work from the beginning", - he gets angry.
For what the psychologist replies that she gives an assignment every day. And fear has big eyes and the faster guys will start working, the faster they will finish. Victor only muttered: "I also know how to bite”, and continues to carry stones. For a long time, he will still be quarreling with the psychologist. Irina supports him in this. She thinks that the psychologist provokes them.
"She's waiting for us to begin to fight with each other ..." - she says to Tolik.
After several hours of nervous work, the psychologist congratulates the participants with ending the construction. A long-waited passage of the maze is ahead.
"You have conquered yourselves!" - she addresses the exhausted participants. And Victor wearily says:
"We understood your strategy!"
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