For several years now, a short text about real hopelessness, the author of which is listed as a Russian actor, has been spreading across the Internet. We checked whether this attribution is correct.
The full quote reads like this: “Hopelessness is when on the 40th day you stand at the grave and understand that this is not a bad dream, not someone’s stupid joke, that now you will continue to live like this, only without this dear person. You can't change anything, the choice is made from above. This is what hopelessness is. And not yours: there is no job, the guy quit, the girl turned out to be a creature, there is nothing to wear, the weather is bad and there is not enough money. While you’re alive, you have a million options and exits.”
With attribution to Khabensky, it is distributed by entertainment portals (“Peekaboo", Fishki.net), sites with aphorisms, users "Zena" And "VKontakte" The text gained particular popularity on Facebook, where only the community “The best poems of great poets. Literature” published it four times (31,000, 22,000, 10,000 And 1600 reposts). The quote was also replicated by other users and communities on this social network (5500, 5500, 2000, 320 And 230 reposts).
In 2008 died the first wife of Konstantin Khabensky Anastasia. The actor had a hard time coping with her death, and in a recent interview admittedthat he was never able to fully recover from this blow. A few months before the death of his wife, Khabensky founded a charitable fund, which to this day helps children and young people with brain and spinal cord tumors. Talking about working with the foundation’s wards, the artist more than once emphasized the need to fight and believe in a cure, no matter how illusory it may seem.
Perhaps this is why it is easy to imagine Khabensky as the author of this quote. However, “Verified” did not find a single interview with the actor in which he defines hopelessness in this way. These words do not appear in publications of reputable media, especially with such attribution. In addition, back in 2013, Khabensky admitted that doesn't lead social networks - only his charitable foundation has accounts there. True, after a few months the artist still registered page in "VKontakte“- according to him, to stop attempts by scammers to collect donations on his behalf through fake accounts. However, he warned that there would be no personal posts on this page, and he still stands by his promise.
At the same time, on Facebook the text being verified began to be attributed to Khabensky in 2015, and for the first time it was there published (without attribution) at the beginning of 2014. Similarly, in LiveJournal, the actor began to be mentioned as the author of the text in 2016, and the quote itself appeared in 2014. Same picture observed on social network X (Twitter at the time).
The earliest post with text about hopelessness was discovered by “Verified” on VKontakte, where on February 21, 2014 it posted public “At home they won’t understand.” The post quickly became popular (26,000 likes, 1,100 reposts), and the link to it was actively shared by Twitter users.
In the public page “They won’t understand at home,” when asked “Verified” about the possible authorship of the quote, they answered that the data had not been preserved. Nevertheless, it is safe to say that Khabensky has nothing to do with her. This is not the first time that an actor attributed to motivational texts that are actively distributed on the Internet.
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