Olga looked at old pictures in social network and couldn`t believe that it`s she on them. How many years ago she studied in college and lived in student`s camping? Ten or even twelve...Long time ago. On this picture she is sitting at the table and eating a cheap soup from package. Being a student she couldn`t buy meat and fish every day. Sometimes Olga and other girls bought groceries for common money. They found different ways to earn it: worked at cinema, as waitresses at the restaurants, in library...But study was expensive and life in big city was expensive also, so girls always nedeed money. Olga looked at second picture: she had red strands of hair in that time. Of course now she doesn`t dye it anymore.
Maybe the real happiness was in that time? Nobody envied each other, everybody was equal. All students nedeed money and ate a cheap food.
Olga opened the virtual album with photos of her old friend Julia. That girl always was the most beautiful girl in college. All guys wanted to date her and she knew it. Of course Julia found a rich man after graduation. He gave her well-of life, now Julia is living in a very big and nice house, has a rest on Maldives and in Italy, wearing expensive dresses and has a lot of jewerly. Olga was sure: Julia even doesn`t remember that cheap soup and poor student`s life in college. Olga felt a small anger. It is not fair: Julia got everything and Olga got a life in small apartment with two rooms, husband who couldn`t earn big money and two kids who always tore the clothes and demanded a lot of food. Olga was sure that Julia`s son eats best fruits, best Swiss and Belgian chocolate, maybe even a caviar. And Olga`s children eat simple food and wear cheap clothes.
Phone call returned Olga in reality. It was an educator from kindergarden. Olga`s son got sick and had a high temperature. Taking small daughter out of bed Olga ran for son thinking how much money she has to pay for medicine. And she felt very unhappy.
Maybe the real happiness was in that time? Nobody envied each other, everybody was equal. All students nedeed money and ate a cheap food.
Olga opened the virtual album with photos of her old friend Julia. That girl always was the most beautiful girl in college. All guys wanted to date her and she knew it. Of course Julia found a rich man after graduation. He gave her well-of life, now Julia is living in a very big and nice house, has a rest on Maldives and in Italy, wearing expensive dresses and has a lot of jewerly. Olga was sure: Julia even doesn`t remember that cheap soup and poor student`s life in college. Olga felt a small anger. It is not fair: Julia got everything and Olga got a life in small apartment with two rooms, husband who couldn`t earn big money and two kids who always tore the clothes and demanded a lot of food. Olga was sure that Julia`s son eats best fruits, best Swiss and Belgian chocolate, maybe even a caviar. And Olga`s children eat simple food and wear cheap clothes.
Phone call returned Olga in reality. It was an educator from kindergarden. Olga`s son got sick and had a high temperature. Taking small daughter out of bed Olga ran for son thinking how much money she has to pay for medicine. And she felt very unhappy.
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Of course, life in camping was absolutely different than life now. Julia looked at old pictures in social network where she and other girls ate a cheap soup from package. She remembered that poor but cheerful time, and that soup and different ways to earn money. Suddenly Julia understood that she would eat that soup right now and it would be delicious. And cheap canned goods, and cheap sausages. That food was so simple but so tasty.
Julia remembered the old cafe where she went with Olga after lections. They ate mushed potatoes with lumps and drank a cheap coffee there. Nowadays Julia`s husband won`t let her visit the same place. Nowadays Julia eats only expensive meals.
Julia looked at picture where Natasha has been photographed. That girl was a real nerd. She came to Moscow from small town in Siberia and had a goal to build a great career. While other girls had fun after lections, Natasha went to the library and studied, studied, studied...And it was not in vain. She graduated from college with the best kind of diploma. And Natasha`s career is also awesome: she opened her own financial agency. Julia almost doesn`t communicate with Natasha now because she is working all day, all night. Natasha is an example of independent and strong woman. And what about Julia? She depends on her husband, he doesn`t want her to work but she doesn`t do anything at home too. Julia`s family has a housekeeper, a cooker, a nurse and own teacher for son. Julia even shouldn`t raise her own son because other people do it! Everything what is material can be bought by Julia`s husband. She can have anything she wishes. But it is not a happiness...Julia suffers from some implementation, she feels that she is just an annex to her successful husband. Natasha is smart, successful woman, she is happy. And Julia...Julia is a nobody.
Sitting in her huge and rich house, Julia felt very unhappy.
Julia remembered the old cafe where she went with Olga after lections. They ate mushed potatoes with lumps and drank a cheap coffee there. Nowadays Julia`s husband won`t let her visit the same place. Nowadays Julia eats only expensive meals.
Julia looked at picture where Natasha has been photographed. That girl was a real nerd. She came to Moscow from small town in Siberia and had a goal to build a great career. While other girls had fun after lections, Natasha went to the library and studied, studied, studied...And it was not in vain. She graduated from college with the best kind of diploma. And Natasha`s career is also awesome: she opened her own financial agency. Julia almost doesn`t communicate with Natasha now because she is working all day, all night. Natasha is an example of independent and strong woman. And what about Julia? She depends on her husband, he doesn`t want her to work but she doesn`t do anything at home too. Julia`s family has a housekeeper, a cooker, a nurse and own teacher for son. Julia even shouldn`t raise her own son because other people do it! Everything what is material can be bought by Julia`s husband. She can have anything she wishes. But it is not a happiness...Julia suffers from some implementation, she feels that she is just an annex to her successful husband. Natasha is smart, successful woman, she is happy. And Julia...Julia is a nobody.
Sitting in her huge and rich house, Julia felt very unhappy.
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Natasha drove her car and thought about important meeting with colleagues. Her head has been filled with thoughts and she noticed that she is driving past the college at the last moment. Everything is different here but also so familiar. Natasha remembers the years of studying, remembers how girls called her "nerd", how she could learn some subject during all night...No, she doesn`t miss all this. It was just a step to better life that Natasha has nowadays. And she is glad that she studied a lot. All this was for career, for chance to live in the capital and never go back to her native small town. Natasha is independent, she has her own agency, she earns her own money. What can be better?
Of course, Natasha was lying to herself. She dreamed about real love. She wanted to meet a man who will adore her, who will write poems to her, who will be with her untill the end. Natasha believed in such kind of love because her classmate Maria has it. She met Victor in college and it was the love from first sight. Victor and Maria were a perfect couple and they are still together. They married and look very happy from pictures in social network. They look at each other with tenderness and passion in eyes. Maria always can ask Victor about help and he will help her because he loves her. Natasha has to do everything herself and sometimes it is very hard and annoying. Last time she is thinking only about strong male shoulder on which she could put her head and forget about independence for a while.
Successful and independent but lonely Natasha understood that she is very unhappy...
Of course, Natasha was lying to herself. She dreamed about real love. She wanted to meet a man who will adore her, who will write poems to her, who will be with her untill the end. Natasha believed in such kind of love because her classmate Maria has it. She met Victor in college and it was the love from first sight. Victor and Maria were a perfect couple and they are still together. They married and look very happy from pictures in social network. They look at each other with tenderness and passion in eyes. Maria always can ask Victor about help and he will help her because he loves her. Natasha has to do everything herself and sometimes it is very hard and annoying. Last time she is thinking only about strong male shoulder on which she could put her head and forget about independence for a while.
Successful and independent but lonely Natasha understood that she is very unhappy...
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Maria cried in the toilet squeezing the test for pregnancy which has appeared negative again. Third attempt- and it is vain again! Maria didn`t care of anything, she wanted only one: a baby, her own baby, small and warm, boy or girl or maybe even twins. Every day Maria thought how she will raise her kid, how he or she will look and how they will spend time together.
But all was bad...Maria and Victor visited doctors, made analyses and nobody could explain why they cannot conceive a baby. If they had so big money as Julia has, they could make a vitro fertilisation but they don`t have this money. Of course Maria can lend a needed sum from Julia but it will be a proof that she and Victor are not a Perfect Family without any problems how all their friends think.
And, of course, the happiest person is Olga. Sge has two babies, TWO! And Maria doesn`t have even one.
Sitting in the toilet with wet face and useless paper strip Maria felt that she is the unhappiest person in the world.
But all was bad...Maria and Victor visited doctors, made analyses and nobody could explain why they cannot conceive a baby. If they had so big money as Julia has, they could make a vitro fertilisation but they don`t have this money. Of course Maria can lend a needed sum from Julia but it will be a proof that she and Victor are not a Perfect Family without any problems how all their friends think.
And, of course, the happiest person is Olga. Sge has two babies, TWO! And Maria doesn`t have even one.
Sitting in the toilet with wet face and useless paper strip Maria felt that she is the unhappiest person in the world.
