Amber Pieces. Life Situations That Make Us Who We Are

Some situations that happen to us in life change us forever -- they make us stronger, older, wiser. There is a trendy word for this now -- transform. That is, before the situation and after it -- we are already different people. Before -- one person, after -- another. And the situation itself is frozen in the amber of time and does not change. It is what it has already happened, and there will be no other. It can be some large-scale life event, or it can be some random dialogue in which every word got so deep that you froze, experiencing your insight. Some days are just amber crumbs, while others are real huge amber pieces. But each of us has such metaphorical beads around our necks. “My world will never be the same!” -- we exclaim after experiencing yet another amber piece. And we live the next day a little differently, considering the new knowledge gained. This book is a whole handful of stories-amber pieces. Each story tells about some situation that divided the hero's life into before and after. And about how the hero noticed their amber piece. Or did not notice. And what they did or did not do with it. What they chose to take with them into their tomorrow.