Let's exclaim! Just…

Hooray! Finally, the long-awaited New Year has arrived! And then Christmas! Let's enjoy it! Hooray (three more times)! No, of course, the past year is a little pity, because he gave us so many interesting things - conversations and meetings, new people and impressions, outstanding events and travels, international automobile premieres and theater performances, new films and the pathos of red-carpet festivals associated with their releases ". ... There were a lot of things - both funny and sad, but you have something to remember, right? For this we thank 2009 and honestly spend it with a festive glass of champagne! And you know what? Let’s stop frowning, as a Russian, he’s always serious, he is so preoccupied with something so terrible and therefore has a constant, gloomy expression on his face. Well, why do you need it? Then to run and try to remove deep wrinkles from the forehead with all sorts of “Botoxes” there. So, whether it’s the matter of people from other countries (it doesn’t matter, western or eastern) - everyone smiles at each other, and every day they meet in offices, but they rejoice as if they had not seen one hundred years! It may have played enough, but it's so nice to see when someone smiled at you. Just! Of course, I will not argue, and they run to beauty salons to soften their wrinkles, but they are facial expressions around the eyes and mouth, arising from endless smiles.

Or here - standing in the middle of our hospitable Radisson BLU hotel is a huge gingerbread house and smells of Christmas, childhood and gifts! Such a large kiosk pasted with real gingerbread and sweets, sugar icicles and glazed cookies. Okay, let it (to be honest) smell like cinnamon and spices, but they build it in the hotel lobby every year. Just! And adults (!) And children constantly tear away sweets and cookies from it. Sometimes, of course, an ad appears in the window of the house asking “not to eat jewelry from it,” but everyone who is not lazy continues to eat it with great pleasure. Just! And the hotel staff is happy about this business and do not scold anyone for real. Because people need both gingerbread houses and joyful memories that bring us all back to childhood! To a Christmas tree in my mother’s apartment with funny toys and Santa Claus from papier-mâché, to homemade snowflakes carved from a notebook and glued to the black square of the window, to the confetti scattered across the floor, which everyone will not be willing to clean tomorrow. Long live winter and the holidays that have come with it!

Let us greet the coming year 2010 and wish it to be happy, kind and joyful! Let’s start right from January 1, we’ll start smiling all together and each individually! Let's give each other presents! Just like that, no chance. Let's not offend each other in vain! Let everyone congratulate his (his) beloved on Valentine's Day. And let this not be “our” holiday, but what a wonderful one. And let's recall the lines from the song of Bulat Okudzhava written by the poet back in 1975:

"... Let's exclaim, admire each other.

Arrogant words should not be feared.

Let's compliment each other -

it's all love happy moments.

.... Let's live indulging in each other, -

moreover, such a short life "....

I have nothing more to add to this, but you? Let's live in peace! After all, the year of the Tiger (which can bite and scratch on occasion) is just beginning .... See you.

Sincerely, Elena Olkhovskaya

Chief Editor