Another highlight of the meeting was an unexpected visit from Munira Kuspanovna Temirgalieva, a notable member of the Taraz intelligentsia. She said that she heard about our project from a friend and decided to pay a visit herself. Although an advanced scholar of economics, she has been lately engaged in the study of akmeology, a subset of psychology that studies phenomenology and the development of adult 'maturity' proposed by Russian scholar N.Rybnikov. One of the tenets of this field is the use of childhood memories as a prophylactic against afflictions such as depression, oncological diseases and others.
Munira Kuspanovna generously shared a childhood memory that has been with her throughout her life. Because she was born premature, she was growing up as a sickly kid, and her parents frequently tried to arrange little treats for her. Once her father took her on a boat ride along the Volga river in the city of Ulyanovsk where they lived for a brief period of time. They decided to stop by one of the islands in the middle of the river. Suddenly, Munira Kuspanovna remembered, she saw her mother walking towards from another side of the island. It was the most wonderful, the most magical moment of her life. Her parents must have talked to each other and arranged this meeting, but for little Munira this was sheer surprise. Seeing her mother in this place and in this moment was the brightest experience that to this day fuels Munira Kuspanovna's life. Whether she's going through a happy or sad period of her life, the memory of her mother appearing in this way and joining them keeps her going and loving life. Her utmost desire, Munira Kuspanovna said, is to provide the same kind of experiences for her children and her grandchildren.
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