Anna: We took my grandmother from the village in the fall, and in the winter she died. I can’t stop reproaching myself for taking her away from my native walls. She could have lived there for several more years. Boris: I spent a long time trying to persuade my parents to move to California with me. They did not agree and I gave up, followed their lead, and flew away alone. As a result, my father had a stroke and died. Veronica: I became pregnant at 15 and gave birth at 16, having barely finished 9th grade. There was no time to get an education. The child took all the energy and time. Now I regret that I didn’t have an abortion at school. My life could have gone completely differently. Now it's too late. The only thing I can do is work as a cleaner. Galina: I got pregnant when my husband and I were students. Well, what kind of child is there? We lived in a dorm on a scholarship and occasional part-time jobs, barely making ends meet. Now we have everything: a career, an apartment, a car, but I can’t get pregnant, although neither my husband nor I have any abnormalities. I think this is my payback for that abortion. If I turned everything back now, I would give birth then.________________________________None of these people CAN know for sure HOW IT WOULD BE BETTER. Because it is impossible to verify. WE CANNOT KNOW what would have happened if we had made a different choice and COULD WE have influenced the events. In the movie "Groundhog Day" there is a storyline about an old homeless man. The first time, passing by him, the main character pushed away his outstretched hand. A few frames later, the OLD MAN DIED. The next day, he gave the old man a coin and the OLD MAN DIED anyway. Another “Groundhog Day” has arrived and the hero is already taking the old man to the dining room and buying him a huge amount of food. THE OLD MAN IS DYING. Finally, he takes the old man to the hospital and sits in the emergency room, handing the old man over to the doctors. A nurse comes out and reports that the OLD MAN DIED. “How! Why!” exclaims the hero. “He died of old age. Nothing could be done,” the nurse answers. Yes, it also happens that you CANNOT influence events in any way . Your own OLD MAN will still die, no matter what option you choose. We cannot always know what is best. And we cannot always influence events. It happens. This must be accepted. The text was published on my VKontakte page https://vk.com/paksevatkina_viktoriia