Preface

by Masha Dumanska

Every time I remember myself I always dreamt of being a successful person. I always wanted to study hard and to get good marks. At school teachers praised me for studying. Then I wanted to enter Kyiv-Mohula Academy because that was the only university in Ukraine, in which I wanted to study.
And I still think about how to become successful and how can I reach that sphere, in which I want to work. The problem is that I don’t know exactly what I want to do. I definitely know that I don’t want to work as a social worker or a psychologist. Although I study these subjects at the university this is not on what I want to spend the rest of my life. On the contrary to that I like watching films, reading books, fashion (in the meaning of history and all the news there, not just the clothes). It may sound childish. I don’t know. But I know that I can reach this and I have time to make my decision.
Also I am happy that my friends have the same aims. They also want to achieve something in their lives. We may seem like a dreamers but this is who we are. We are young and we want to have a better life.
But there are other people, who don’t think about it at all. I also know such people. They have different opinions about their lives. They just live and don’t think about big goals, that they would like to achieve. They are comfortable with their lives. And those people just can’t see and even think that there is something much more bigger in this world than their home, work, study, drinks, TV and a computer.
My friend from the university told me this about her ex-classmates. She was surprised and confused to find out that for them living in a small town, meetings and drinking alcohol with their friends and compulsory study at the university is ok. Then they will have a job that they may not like but it is comfortable for them. And in a such way they will spend the rest of their lives. And for those people it is normal.
We thought that maybe there are some people, who set for themselves big aims and they train themselves, always discover something new, to read, to watch, to listen, to observe something. And there are other people, who are comfortable with the living, that have their parents and they too.
I think that this is normal, because people are different. We make the diversity. It would be too boring, if everybody was the same. My mother calls me a dreamer. But I truly hope that I will achieve my aims.  All in all, sometimes we should see the world and think about people beyond our worldview.