Stalina: You see, health is such a thing. There are seemingly inevitable events, but if you make an effort, you can postpone them for a while. If you have a task more important than yourself, you concentrate on it and get away from your personal problem, but it doesn't disappear and you can always come back to it. If it's a health issue, then take care of your health.
Concentrating on one's responsibility, especially to one's children, always helps one.

Stalina: How do I feel? I've lived 1,000 lives. And each time from the beginning. In fact, even the stages of my life were not just age categories. Each time it was a different life: childhood, school, adolescence, college, moving to another city, teaching, having children and being involved in their lives, having grandchildren. I was engaged in both scientific activity, teaching economics at the university, and engineering. And in general, I have always been a free person.

My father was a military man. We were not told that we should live according to our conscience. We did live according to our conscience. And my mom was an incredibly free person. She was free and courageous by nature. She lived that way. Growing up, I didn't see any examples of double standards.

My father treated me as if I were a “magic love flower.” My brothers grew up with the mindset that the woman is always right, that's what Dad believed. So I always had a sense of security.

Stalina: I'm not gonna tell you! Who knows what real love is?! You can love in abstractions, and that's love too. For example, I love beautiful people.
I have a lot of respect and rather wonder how you can live with one person all your life. Love does not last forever, it is impossible. People should not stay with each other because of children or sense of duty. It should be a free union of two free people. One can love once or many times; the main thing is not to become a cause of unhappiness for another person.

Stalina: I think my life mission will be fulfilled if my children and grandchildren are persons of conscience and integrity.

Stalina: How's that? The most important thing in life is our children. As Shakespeare said, “And in a son I shall repeat myself.” It's a blessing to have children, grandchildren and even great-grandchildren.
I have two children: a son and a daughter. Four grandchildren. Two great-grandchildren.

Stalina: It's a very stretchy concept. It depends on your perception. For example, my mother might seem very strict to someone, but for me it was normal: if my mother told me to do something, I had to do it. There were four of us, and my mom barely repeated things to us. So I had a very easy childhood.

This is where the correlation between strictness and justice comes into play. You have to apply the word “reasonableness” here. There are red lines that must not be crossed. These are your moral qualities towards other people. You have to bring up your children to be honest, fair, merciful.

Stalina: That's what others say about us. It's a kind of magnetism, an energy field around us, an aura. This field both attracts us and, incidentally, can also push us away. This is an absolutely necessary quality for public people or leaders. When we interact with people, we often don't think about charisma, we just trust each other.

Stalina: It seems to me that you are open when you are not afraid of anything. And when you have a sense of inner freedom. But that doesn't mean that I'm an open-minded person. And my openness is not an act, I am just open to people.

Stalina: Being impressionable, I guess.

As long as we have an unfulfilled life task, we continue to live, that is life. And age has nothing to do with it. Our ideas about age are based on associations, so I can imagine myself even as a child, of any age. For example, my first memory is of 1944, evacuation, in Penza. When I remember it, I feel like a child. So age is a relative concept.

Stalina: Sure, it takes time and a serious attitude. First of all: it all starts from childhood, if your mom makes sure that you are always clean and washed. Of course, heredity.
It is necessary to properly care for yourself, do not use any bad creams. For example, I use only Estée Lauder cosmetics and perfume exclusively from France.

Stalina: I could always pull myself together and not be lazy, especially when life's challenges, as I said, also involve other people, especially children.

Stalina: Work on yourself. Study. Don't be lazy. Live life to the fullest. Don't be afraid. And don't give up.