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[Alexandr Korol]

you begin to remember all your moments in life, and you remember them very easily, not through fog and noise, but as if it happened yesterday. And it begins to be highlighted for me, as if it were yesterday, everything in my life where I felt the same way. And it turns out that on April 10–11–12 I began to be different, as if I came out of the darkness, as if I woke up a different person, feeling some crazy kind of love for people. And at the same time I very much wanted to listen to music about travel. I have a playlist called “Travel,” it’s that “travel” music, often played on guitar, also called “folk,” American. Similar to Angus & Julia Stone — there are these guys from Australia whom I have been listening to since childhood, since about 2005–2006; also there is Gonzalez — he did the soundtracks for the movie “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.” So, all kinds of such music: kind, light. And I really feel it, and incredible happiness, and everything so beautiful. Everything around is as if beautifully lit, and I did nothing for it. But at that moment I begin to remember right away — not intentionally, as if I want to recall it, but as if images of my entire life where I felt the same way simply appear. And certain friends “surface,” meaning I remember them, their faces; I remember their kindness and my own; I remember where I was at that moment, what I looked like. And it strongly reminded me, first of all, of the state I recently felt, about a month ago, on April 10–12. It reminded me of August 2010, when I was in Cyprus, Ayia Napa, if I’m not mistaken, with a large group of friends. That was, you could say, my first trip abroad at the time without my parents. And it was very wonderful. Back then I was listening to The XX, their first album, listening to Yoav, his first album, and that was when I started collecting travel music. That is, I already knew Angus & Julia Stone, but back then in some street, beachside, pleasant bar I heard even more travel-style music and began collecting all of it for myself.

But the most interesting thing is that from that moment, meaning from around April 10, 2025, about a month ago, I completely stopped feeling any pain or tension in any muscles of my body. As if my body had relaxed so much, as if I had gone through a whole year of acupuncture, cupping, massages, and so on, can you imagine? And yet I did nothing, and physically