Unexpected miracles that made us believe in the magic of the New Year again
Many people have experienced this: the holiday is just around the corner, and everything is going from bad to worse. But just one detail — an act, a meeting, a discovery, an event — can change everything and make you believe that New Year's is truly an extraordinary time.
Readers told us about the small, bright, and even a little absurd miracles that happened to them on the eve of the battle of the chimes. And although these true stories lack Hollywood pomp, they do have the charm of real life.
Maria, 32 years old
I broke up with my fiancé two weeks before the New Year, it seemed like life was over. We were going to celebrate together at my house, everything reminded me of him – I prepared gifts for him, bought delicacies for the table. I counted down the hours until the New Year, hoped that he would still show up, painted such heartbreaking romantic pictures for myself. I made one bleak decision after another about what I would do if he still didn't come.
And suddenly – some noise in the entrance, drunken screams. My heart was pounding in my throat, I thought it was him, I started running. But it turned out that some rascals had thrown a tiny kitten with a broken paw under my door. That's how I got a cat. I forgot about my ex at that very moment, and, in fact, I never thought about him again.
Svetlana, 46 years old
I was 12, and I was sitting on the couch on the evening of December 31, feeling sad about the fact that there was nothing good in life at all. I had finished the semester very badly, I had a feeling that I was going to die, and in general – all children have Santa Claus, but he never came to me… And suddenly the doorbell rang. My heart sank: I was sure it was our classmate, who lived next door, was friends with my mother, and loved to complain.
But on the threshold stood the most real Santa Claus with a red nose and a huge beard. My surprise knew no bounds, and my parents were also somehow surprised. Grandfather had already put on some order, gave me a radio-controlled car, a bunch of sweets, chewing gum and binoculars. From that day on, I believed that at the most desperate moment a miracle would definitely await me.
And then at the graduation, sitting in the company and discussing the upcoming entrance, I told this New Year's story, adding the comment that everything would work out for me, because I was beautiful. At that moment, the guy sitting opposite me, his face stretched out. It turned out that that Frost was walking and did not reach him, and he spent New Year's Eve in snot while I sang and danced. We laughed for a long time, called my parents and told them. And a year later we got married. By the way, we still keep that car, it even drives sometimes.
Larisa, 58 years old
My husband and I had a very difficult period in our lives, we got seriously ill with Covid, he lost his job. And now New Year is just around the corner, and the mood is just like a cemetery. My husband's cell phone rings, I sit next to him, listen with half an ear and understand that the conversation is somehow strange. And suddenly he starts crying…
He was found by his adult daughter, whose existence he had no idea existed. She came to our city for the holidays, and how she got his phone number is a separate story. She is already an adult woman, she has a husband, a son. I have never felt such complex emotions in my life, to be honest.
We don't have children of our own and never have, we got married as mature people. And suddenly this! In short, the family expanded, for the New Year we got not only a daughter, but also a son-in-law and a grandson.
Olga, 42 years old
Perestroika, a period of some terrible hopeless lack of money. Mom was laid off from work, dad's salary was delayed, there were no gifts at all, and there wasn't even a festive table – they didn't get anything. And so, an hour before New Year's, dad was walking home through a blizzard from duty, at that time he worked at the fire station. And he literally crashed into a new suitcase lying in the middle of a deserted snow-covered street, stuffed with tangerines. Tangerines were in incredible shortage, not to mention the imported suitcase.
A couple of months later, we moved to a new apartment with this suitcase — we ate the tangerines, of course, and wished the person who gave them to us all the best. May God grant him good health today.
Marina, 38 years old
At the end of November, my mother died, and just before the New Year I had to come to her apartment to sort out things. The mood was not at all festive. We had, one might say, a bad relationship, everyone considered my mother a difficult person. We didn't communicate at all for many years, then we had to renew contact when she got sick – she has no one except me. And these two years of her illness turned out to be a nightmare, we could not find a common language, she tormented me with trifles, I was angry with her, then angry with myself.
I came to clean out her apartment and thought, “Well, another lonely, empty New Year, why all this?” And I found her archive, which I knew nothing about. It turned out that throughout my childhood, she kept notebooks, where she pasted photos, wrote about what I was doing, recorded some thoughts about my motherhood, about my character, my thoughts, funny phrases. It was like an electric shock. I was going through these papers and thinking, “How much love was lost, but how much of it, it turns out, was in life.” It was such a gift, the same real miracle.
Olesya, 30 years old
I had a disaster last New Year's Eve – right before the holidays I moved into a new apartment, and it was simply uninhabitable, with problems upon problems, and the developer was in no hurry to fix it. I've never felt worse in my life: all my money went to a mortgage and repairs. I'd dreamed for so long of raising a glass of champagne in my own home to the chimes, but in reality I got crooked walls, a bulging floor, a non-working elevator, and even the water was turned off on December 31, and at 10 pm the electricity was also turned off.
My friend came to visit me, we were sitting in the dark with her, not understanding what to do at all, and suddenly there was a terrible crack: the double-glazed window bursts and flies out, completely, instead of a window – a hole! And the snow starts to fall, slowly, slowly. It was such a strange, so wild and beautiful picture that my friend and I wrapped ourselves in blankets and sat with champagne in front of the window – we chatted and watched as the snow drifted across the windowsill and the floor.
I had never felt so calm and happy in my life. Everything ended well – the window was fixed, and then everything else.
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