10 Facts About Me That I Tell Few People About

2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-07-31 03:38

1. My umbilical cord was tied in the city of Pechora, in the Komi Republic, on the great northern river Pechora, which flows into the Arctic Ocean. On my birthday there was nothing at all - (minus) 50 degrees.
2. My family nickname is "Komi - Perm", probably someone was called "the sun, hedgehog, elephant, sweet, beloved." And me like that!
3. Parents say that as a child, like all normal children, I looked at the Northern Lights, ate fish oil and lay under an ultraviolet lamp to grow bones. But I still turned out to be of short stature, however, the ultraviolet was pumped up.
4. Snow fell in human height, on the street I was dressed in several sweaters, socks and even scarves! Will you go for a walk in the yard at minus (-) 15? And we are children, that's the only way we walked. When else to walk, if 8 months a year there are snow storms and frosts, but as soon as it gets warmer to minus (-) 15 - you can walk!
5. My parents were restless, they traveled around the Soviet Union in planes and compartment cars, across the seas and resorts. And along with them, I am. Since 6 months I have already flown in airplanes, and I started to travel in trains even earlier. I am very grateful to them for that.
6. I remember well the last Soviet year in Moscow. I am 8. We were walking on the Sparrow Hills and I was suddenly seized by a heavy and sad foreboding. It was bigger than me, incomprehensible and frightening. About a huge disaster, destruction and death of a great country, about the disappearance of a large people and difficult years of extinction. So through the Field (deep unconscious) I saw the future for the first time.
7. Sometimes dad would sit down to watch a movie, call me and ask me to start telling what will happen next. I told you. He always shouted: “How do you do this? Well, how can you know what will happen if you have never seen this film! " I was scared when he screamed, and I decided not to tell what I saw and felt anymore.
8. Pain has lived inside me for many years. Parents took and moved from the Komi Republic to Ukraine. Nobody asked me, nobody talked to me about it, I didn't even say goodbye to my friends, I didn't even KNOW that we were leaving forever. I was torn away from my beloved land, beloved grandfather and beloved friends, from my people. Uprooted with young northern roots. And then the Soviet Union was destroyed and the road home was FOREVER closed for me. This is something that I will never forgive my parents. And they know about it, but, like all parents, they bear the guilt for their decision.
9. When I told my friends to Ukrainian children that in my homeland, there is also summer, albeit one month! And that I, too, like them, swam in the river. Nobody believed me. Everyone believed that I came from the place where polar bears live, and there cannot be summer at all. It stuck in me for many years - I speak the truth, but I DO NOT BELIEVE. People don't want my truth, and I shut myself out.
10. After university, I did not go into the profession and did not work as a psychologist, I lived for 7 years on business trips, traveled all over Ukraine, I know it better than the Ukrainians themselves. I have lived in 100 cities and visited about a thousand museums and attractions. Probably no Ukrainian can boast of such a thing.