It’s real: unexpected miracles that made us believe in the magic of the New Year again

Mary, 32 years old

“I was 12 years old and sitting on the couch on the evening of December 31st, crying about the fact that there was nothing good in life. I finished the semester very badly, I had a feeling that I was going to get screwed, and in general, all children have Santa Claus, but he never came to me… And suddenly, the bell rang the door. My heart sank: I was sure it was our classmate, who lived nearby, was friends with my mother and loved to complain.

But on the threshold stood the real Santa Claus, with a red nose and a huge beard. My amazement knew no bounds, and my parents were also surprised in one way or another. My grandfather was already pretty drunk and gave me a radio-controlled sports car, a bunch of candy, some gum, and binoculars. From that day on, I believed that at the most desperate moment, a miracle would definitely await me. And at the graduation, sitting in a group and discussing future admission, I told the story of this new year, accompanied by the comment that I will be successful, I am lucky in life.

At this moment, the face of the guy sitting opposite fell. It turned out that Frost was walking and didn’t reach him, and he spent New Year’s Eve sobbing while I sang and danced. We laughed for a long time, called our parents and told them. And a year later they got married. Besides, we still keep this car, it even runs every other time.

Svetlana, 46 years old

“My husband and I went through a very difficult time in our lives, we were seriously ill with Covid, he lost his job. And now the New Year is just around the corner, and the mood is simply cemetery. My husband’s cell phone rings, I sit next to him, listen with half an ear and understand that the conversation is somehow strange. And suddenly he starts crying…

He was found by an adult girl he didn’t even know existed. She came to our town for the holidays and how she got his phone number is another story. She is already an adult woman, she has a husband and a son. I’ve never experienced such complex emotions in my life, to be honest. We do not have our own children and never had any, we married as mature people. And there you have it! In general, the family has grown; for the New Year we received not only a daughter, but also a son-in-law and a grandson.

Larisa, 58 years old

“Perestroika, a period of terrible and desperate lack of money. Mom was fired, dad’s salary was delayed, there were no gifts and there was not even a festive table – they did not receive anything. And so, Dad, an hour before New Year’s, came home through a snowstorm from his shift; And he literally crashed into a new suitcase full of tangerines placed in the middle of a deserted snowy street. Tangerines were incredibly rare; there was nothing to say about the imported suitcase.

A few months later, we moved into a new apartment with this suitcase – of course, we ate the tangerines, wishing all the best to whoever gave them to us like that. God bless him today too.

Olga, 42 years old

“At the end of November, my mother died and just before the New Year, I had to come to her house to sort out her affairs. The atmosphere was not at all festive. We had, you could say, a bad relationship; everyone considered my mother a difficult person. We didn’t communicate at all for many years, then had to reconnect when she got sick – she has no one but me. And these two years of her illness turned out to be a nightmare, we could not find a common language, she tormented me with harassment, I was angry with her, then angry with myself. I came to sort out his apartment and thought: well, another empty and lonely new year, why bother? And I found his archives, which I knew nothing about at all. It turns out that throughout my childhood she kept notebooks in which she pasted photos, wrote about what I could do, recorded some thoughts about my motherhood, about my character, my reasonings, funny phrases . It was like an electric shock. I looked through these papers and thought: how much love was lost, but how much, ultimately, there was in life. It was such a gift, a true miracle.

Marina, 38 years old

“I just experienced a disaster last New Year – just before the holidays I moved to a new apartment, but it is simply impossible to live there, there was a problem and the developer was in no hurry to solve it. I have never felt worse in my life: all the money went to the mortgage and renovations I have long dreamed of raising a glass of champagne at home to the sound of the chimes, but. in reality I found myself with crooked walls, a bulging floor, an elevator that didn’t work (22nd floor!), and even the water was turned off on December 31, and at 10 p.m. the electricity was also cut off. A friend came to visit me. sitting in the dark, we did not understand what to do, and suddenly there was a terrible crash: the double-glazed window burst and flew out, quite simply, a hole instead of a window frame And he! starts to snow, little by little small It was such a strange, wild and beautiful image that my friend and I wrapped ourselves in blankets and sat with champagne in front of the window – chatting and watching a snowdrift sweep across the windowsill and the. ground. I have never felt so calm and happy in my life. Everything ended well – the window was repaired, and then everything else. I plan to celebrate this new year with electricity and without a snowman in the house.

Olesya, 30 years old