Hello and Welcome!

My name is Marina and back in the 80′s I used to look like this (would you please check out those cheeks! hamsters got nothin’ on me! holy moley!):

My Mama says they had a hard time finding hats to fit that moon-face, but things have since turned around for me and these days I look more like this:

I am 27 years old. I am Russian.

I am a thinker and a self-proclaimed people scientist and this is where I write about my research subjects. If you know me in real life, sooner or later I will write about you too.

I have always been drawn to the written word, but for a long time was unable to articulate with clarity what it is that I want to write about. Well, turns out there is books out there that teach you how to go about sniffing out your passions. One of them asked me to think of one thing I love doing so much that I would do it for free. I thought. I thought hard. And then I thought some more…

People is what I discovered. I love analyzing them. Their actions, the intentions behind them. I love looking for answers. Mainly to questions that begin with ‘Why?’ I find it fascinating that we can have everything and feel nothing. I often fail to understand why we are so unhappy when in fact all the blessings have been showered upon us. Why so many of us are lost with little hope of being found? Why do we not realize how much power we have? Why do we lose our strength? Why do we waste our lives hating and resenting? And so many more of these…

I have no way of proving that I am any authority on the subject, but there is one thing I do have - the love of life – deep gratitude for what it has put in my hands, and belief. Belief that everything will be right.

Why would I possibly think that somebody will listen to what I have to say? Because I have found that I sometimes inspire people. Because I have good intentions. Because I don’t lie. Because I think we each every so often need somebody to remind us of the light within, of the things that matter, of how much we have to be thankful for, of kindness and of truth.

These are the tales of strengths and weaknesses, successes and failures, of pain, of struggle, of survival, of happiness and sometimes of loss and gain. Mostly my own. Other times somebody else’s. With stories not my own I mean no disrespect or judgment.

I currently live in Shanghai, China. I work in apparel manufacturing, because a girl’s gotta eat and contemplating life doesn’t pay as much as one may have hoped.

Thank you for stopping by and I welcome feedback.