Ekaterina Time

I am philanthropic. One can find something good, cool, positive and interesting about anybody! Not loving people is no good. You just tick over if you don’t love people, don’t try to investigate their nature, to feel them, to learn more about them.

People usually take career as the priority when they can’t get enough incentives in their private life, their self-actualization, intellectual development and cultural enlightenment. I take career as merely a way to keep fit, stay independent and help those who need my help.

Career is a good way to show your potential.

Now I feel great. Several months ago I changed my life completely. I used to work as a journalist. When entering the Institute I told to myself: “I want to dig some dirt up on Leonid Parfenov”. You know that was NTV high time. And journalism had been my major direction for 8 years. And it was several months ago that some crucial change took place, it was like a turning point. The idea of becoming a psychologist came back into my mind, I’ve been always longing to be the one to help people.

I am fond of solving puzzles, I also collect board games.

I love the words “Shokolad” and “Shelk” sound. They are so smooth and mellifluous…

I try to trust people a priori. As a matter of fact, there are very few people in the world willing to hurt others. I guess I do not trust people who are afraid of displaying their weaknesses by trying to make up some illusionary image. I mean this way they lie to themselves and thus don’t deserve anyone’s trust.

I am not a perfectionist and I believe everybody has a right to commit mistakes and there can be some tricky moments in every process, moreover, each disadvantage could be possibly turned to an advantage. I prefer slight drawbacks to perfect forms.

I guess every person at a certain period of life has got his or her own set of words to describe love. I, for one, now identify it as tranquility. When I realized I loved my husband so much that I was ready to marry him, I felt as if my heart, which had been hurt a lot during my youth, was carefully placed under a chocolate fountain…

I mostly get inspired by nature and water. I guess I was a forest elf in my previous life. Once I get stressed, I try to get to a water bank and I have no more tension, I am purely calm and happy. I just can’t do without water.

I haven’t left Moscow for two years already. Now I can clearly imagine my perfect holidays like going to the sea, stretching on the beach and melting on the sand, yes — and having a glass of orange juice… Still I prefer a more energetic way of having rest.

I love meat and fruit. It’s my Armenian claret that speaks for itself.

What I appreciate most about friends is their readiness to come over at the very moment I need them.

If I went to an uninhabited island I would take my husband with me. Well, in any other cases I can have fun everywhere, I don’t need anything special for it.

Revolution? What do we need it for? One can always find a reason to start it off. But that’s not my way. I am for the smaller-scale politics that would bother about the ways to change the world. There’s a good English proverb «If each would sweep before his own door, we should have a clean city».

Happiness is not about getting the most, earning the most, but about being thankful for what you’ve got for now.