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[Alexandr Korol]

with your mother and grandmother in the summer. And people only see these photos and have only heard these stories about you. And what do we see now? What picture? It turns out society, the social environment, people, whom not all are worth trusting, they form the impression that you have only a bicycle or a scooter, you work in a clinic or in a hospital somewhere, you never travel abroad and do not do anything else. And imagine, this society, these people, sooner or later will want to hurt you, or will want to devalue you somehow. Well, and generally to manipulate you, to attack you. Society likes to attack you. And imagine what will happen to you, and how you will feel, when now a person from society will say to you: “You are empty, needed by no one, you are a nurse in a clinic. And all you do is go to the forest, to the village, to your dacha with your parents, you have not even seen the world, you know nothing. You had better get a grip on yourself, change your job to some other, read smart books. And maybe later you would even buy yourself a car, instead of riding a scooter.” Just imagine, some angry person says this to you. Will it hurt you afterward, will it hurt your soul, or not? Will it affect you? Will you get upset somehow? Will you start to doubt yourself somehow? If suddenly it turns out that this is how society or a person from society judged you. He only judged what he sees. How can this hurt you? It will not hurt you. It will make you very happy, you will smile in your soul like the happiest child. I often smiled like that when I heard or saw something like this. I always made a separation and a boundary. I always said to the readers: “For you I am a writer. You do not need to imagine anything else, you do not need to spin anything in your head about who I am, what I am. My life should not concern you, who I am, how I look, where I live. What difference does it make? I write books. That’s it, I fulfill all the functions. If you discovered me through books, then read the books. And the questions should be within the framework of the books. And on the basis of all this, when I kept a diary for more than 10 years, I know for certain that I made not one but many chapters, I made references in my books about the fact that, “Guys, there is a little key, how to preserve your inner world, your inner self, to protect your soul. You must not always tell everything, show everything, and reveal everything.” Because if you truly showed everything and told everything: your favorite treasured place, your favorite music track, your favorite friend, boasted on the very first day