Where we live, not a single snowflake has fallen in the past two or three days. A few days ago, it snowed for about twenty minutes and then stopped. But there was nothing left in the supermarkets—almost eighty percent of the supplies were gone. All because of a possible storm that might never even come, and yet everything was shutting down.

When I was a child, we would cross roaring rivers through the snow, trudging to school in the midst of it all.

Sometimes the wind passing down by the trailers which traveled to Northern Caucasus and back, would toss us down, but we would get back up and keep going. And all this while we didn’t even have proper shoes or clothes.

People, calm down.

We really lived life to the fullest. Sure, it was full of hardships and torture. Many aspects f it, was unnecessary. But we truly lived a full life. That’s why we are happy, and feel accomplished.