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The value of Money
In philosophy there is a group of scholars, called Frankfurt School. It comprised such eminent scholars, as Adorno, Horkheimer, and Marcuse. They were Jewish academics who managed to escape Germany under the fascism and live in the United States of America. After several years of living there, they reached quite a sad conclusion: America wasn’t… Continue reading
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Coping mechanisms for ‘bipolar disorder’
I don’t believe in diagnoses, but I do have a fragile mental health. I am vulnerable to ‘psychoses’, which for me are incredible spiritual experiences, but they are considered as mental illness by the psychiatry. I do take medication for it, simply because even if I find my psychoses beautiful, they bring havoc to my… Continue reading
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Give Hope to Others
What is your mission? A question of today from WordPress is ‘What is your mission?’ When I saw it, I decided to reflect on it in writing, as it’s a question I ask myself daily. What is my mission? You see, I really want to contribute to our humanity and in a good way. And… Continue reading
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Tickets to Taylor Swift
What is the greatest gift someone could give you? Hello! Interesting prompt today by WordPress, asking what would be the greatest gift to receive. I would love to be very ethical and ask for a world peace, but what can I do, as an ordinary human? As everyone else I don’t understand what is happening… Continue reading
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One Russian New Year
Due to the absence of most grocery products in the 1990s in Russia, people had to develop quite remarkable culinary skills. One had to be truly inventive in order to come up with any interesting dishes, besides a piece of bread with butter (and even butter was at some point totally unavailable in the shops).… Continue reading
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Is it capitalism?
You get to build your perfect space for reading and writing. What’s it like? WordPress assumes that all of us, bloggers, are extremely rich people. Yesterday it asked us to reflect on ‘what’s you all time favourite automobile’, and today we are invited to write an essay about how we can build a perfect reading… Continue reading
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Tesla, of course!
What is your all time favorite automobile? This is a very weird question from WordPress prompt today (they ask questions everyday, trying to boost some creativity, which works). I don’t drive at this moment. I have a license but I forgot how to drive. I got my UK license six years ago, at the seventh… Continue reading
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A place called home
It was at the age of nineteen that I left my beloved Russia to go and study in Brussels. I had a big family trauma and my move was out of desperation, more than anything else. The opportunity to escape was there, and being so naïve, I took it. In retrospect, I am not sure… Continue reading
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On Faith
I was baptized in one of the most beautiful places on earth: Sergiev Posad in Russia. Sergiev Posad is a religious center in Moscow’s region. It belongs to ‘gold ring’ of Russia, a road to travel if you want to see the most amazing old towns in the northeastern Russia. Sergiev Posad encompasses Lavra, which… Continue reading
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Saying goodbye to perfectionism
What skills or lessons have you learned recently? With my bipolar disorder I have learned in the past couple of years to take it easy. I used to be a perfectionist in the past. I was always achieving something. If it wasn’t for work, then it would be for sport. At some point in life… Continue reading
About Me
I am a doctor of philosophy, a university lecturer, and a lover of cats, fine wine, dancing, theatre, and human eccentricity. I was born in the Soviet Union (Moscow). I am fluent in four languages, and have spent all my adult life studying (except from 18 to 19) working and living throughout Western Europe. Despite a surname-Netchitailova- that translates from Russian into English as “unreadable”, my greatest passions in life are reading and writing. My personal struggles have made me appreciate the manifestations of weirdness that exist everywhere.