Невозвратный билет

Obstoi͡atelʹstva byvai͡ut silʹnee nas… Vyrazhenie, izvestnoe kazhdomu. No okazyvalisʹ li vy v podobnoĭ situat͡sii? Naverni͡aka kto-to otvetit, chto takoe proiskhodit chutʹ li ne kazhdyĭ denʹ, a inye, kak i geroi rasskazov, voshedshikh v ėtot sbornik, nikogda ėtogo ne priznai͡ut, kakie by istorii s nimi ni sluchilisʹ, budʹ to zaderzhka samoleta ili smena pasporta. Kazalosʹ by, banalʹnye situat͡sii, v kotorye vmeshivai͡utsi͡a te samye obstoi͡atelʹstva… No imenno oni mogut raz i navsegda izmenitʹ zhiznʹ cheloveka. I kak raz v momenty bessilii͡a, kogda vse idet ne po planu, ne poddaetsi͡a kontroli͡u, kogda pochva ukhodit iz-pod nog ot strakha i neizvestnosti, chelovek okazyvaetsi͡a sposoben na samye udivitelʹnye postupki.

Circumstances are stronger than us… An expression known to everyone. But have you ever been in a similar situation? Surely someone will answer that this happens almost every day, and others, like the heroes of the stories included in this collection, will never admit it, no matter what stories happen to them, whether it's a plane delay or a passport change. It would seem that banal situations in which those very circumstances interfere… But they can change a person's life once and for all. And just in moments of impotence, when everything goes wrong, cannot be controlled, when the ground goes out from under your feet from fear and uncertainty, a person is capable of the most amazing things.