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Marina Hrabar

Getting beyond the image

Kharkiv, Ukraine

I`ve always thought that the first lines of any story would be the hardest to write. Where do I start? How do I begin to tell you, someone, I don`t know my life? My story. How do I do this? I`m forty –six. This may sound incredibly strange for you to believe, for a memory to be this vivid or important at such a young age, but I promise you. I remember this as if it was yesterday. I was in that class. But in my eyes, this was no longer a classroom. This was a fairy world. I don`t know what happened to my insides up there, but they changed forever. This felt good. Really. As I stood there, looking out on the other children, I realized- even at the age of six! — that this was the greatest feeling I had ever had. ‘You get the feeling, children?” my first teacher yelled. “ The happiness! Everyone is happy and we show it” What was that? What just happened? I`d had a fix of something incredible, and in a flash, it went. From invisible to normal in a few seconds. In my heart it became simple: if a teacher can give an idea of what`s possible in this world, discover a new world, it feels amazing. And that was that. From that moment forward. To stop settling, to start exploring and creating what I truly want for myself. I am happy to say that reality is as good as the fairy-tale. Of course, it`s not perfect, but perfection is never a goal.

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