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[Alexandr Korol]

— What is that?
— An empath is a person who feels other people.
— Well, that’s nice, but what should I do with it? What’s even happening to me?

So that’s how it was. It was interesting. Imagine, just because I wrote a little bit about myself so that someone could give me a hint — since I didn’t understand what was happening to me — I was basically still a child. Today an 18-year- old is an adult, but back in 2008, at 18 you were still a kid. It’s like children today who are 12 years old.

And so back then I gained, you could say, my first readers, although I was very afraid of them. I even later deleted and blocked them all, because they kept forcing their labels on me, almost making me out to be some kind of deity. And I would say: “Guys, cut it out. I’m just a normal guy, I have a mom and dad. I’m just a person, I like watching cartoons. What’s with you...” But they already had all these complicated words, terms, labels, putting them all on me. And that’s why I would delete my social media accounts every time some strange people showed up in my life. I always tried to be alone with myself, listening to classical music, and I was happy. So what’s next?

And so it turns out that the first incident was with the old woman in 2008, when I was standing in line at some clinic. The second incident was when I told the chief doctor at the hospital what was wrong with the woman who had fainted — everyone was rushing to save her — and I described what was happening with her. Later they were all shocked: “How did you know that?” And I told the doctor:

— I can feel it all, I don’t know how, but it’s as if I can see right through every person — what they think, what they do, what they want, what they’re going to do.
— I believe that someday in the future I’ll see you on TV. You’re magical.

And then even her husband would call me to ask for advice about real estate, about construction. Me — an 18-year-old kid. Can you imagine?