Today I want to tell you how I became a psychologist. Since the age of 25, people have been annoyingly asking me: are you a psychologist? Not yet understanding the meaning and purpose of this profession, this made me terribly angry. It’s strange how many people pointed, suggested, convinced, but I resisted. Constantly hearing the phrases: “It’s so calm with you, you would be a good psychologist,” “Marina, I want to trust you,” “Have you never studied psychology?” Sometimes I wanted to shout, “No, no, no! No psychology! I don’t need other people’s problems, I have enough of my own! Those who want to communicate with me will come anyway. And I’m a teacher! I teach children! This is my calling!” And not surprisingly, that I also entered the institute at the suggestion of someone else. One friend suddenly sent me a letter and it contains approximately the following text: Marina, the Moscow Institute is holding a promotion and admits without exams, only according to a questionnaire and a short story about yourself. Try! I think this will be interesting for you." Oh! - I thought and decided to write this story, in the hope that no one would even read it. I sent it and forgot. At that time, I was going through a very difficult period in my life, I was saving my life and I was facing a dangerous and difficult operation, which was completed successfully on August 30. A week later, I was already at home, unable to work, without physical and moral strength. All I could do was lie down and surf the Internet. I opened the mail, where a letter was waiting for me. “Dear Marina Gennadievna! We really enjoyed your essay and questionnaire. We believe that you have every reason to be a student at our institute! Congratulations! You are enrolled in the first year of distance learning. Classes started on September 1." What?! Am I a student? What other institute? I'm almost 40 years old, should I study again? .....okay, I'll just see what they write there. There's nothing to do anyway!" I must say that My rehabilitation course was not easy, it flew by. Because I diligently completed all the assignments, listened to lectures at night and read a lot, a lot of literature. And I couldn’t answer myself the main question of life: How?! How could I live without this before? This is what I am made of, it’s all about me! I felt like a fish in water. It is mine! This is also my calling. “What about the teacher?” she asked herself. And she immediately answered: Yes, even better and of higher quality. Two in one! Now years have passed and I am immensely grateful to every person who pushed and connected me with invisible threads with this science of the soul and for the soul. I am grateful to God that through people, through cases, he led me, unhearing and stubborn, to the work of my life. I’m happy that I have a job I love, I’m doubly happy that I have two of them! Happy holiday, colleagues!