The document presents various challenging life scenarios involving relationships, career decisions, family expectations, health issues, relocating to another country, and rumors of an affair. For each scenario, the response "IN YOUR SHOES" is given, implying the reader should put themselves in that situation and consider how they would handle it.

1. You’ve met a foreigner and
fallen in love with him/her.
You don’t speak his/her
language.
IN YOUR SHOES

2. You’ve been invited to a job
interview. You want the job but
you don’t have any smart
clothes. And the company has a
very strict dress code.
IN YOUR SHOES

3. You have a chance for a better
job in another city. You don’t
like the other city, but you
hate the job you have now.
IN YOUR SHOES

4. Your next-door neighbor is a
very sensitive old lady who
visits you every evening. You
don’t know what to do
IN YOUR SHOES

5. You have very important
negotiations with foreign
partners in a month. Your don’t
want to hire an interpreter
because they don’t know the
technical terms.
IN YOUR SHOES

6. You are a Russian actor. You
have been invited to Hollywood.
You have to start working on a
film in a month. You don’t speak
the language.
IN YOUR SHOES

7. You have a chance to buy a
beautiful house very cheaply.
The people who own the house
moved out because of ghosts.
Nobody else will buy the house.
IN YOUR SHOES

8. Your parents have always
wanted you to have a big
wedding. You prefer a small,
quiet wedding and would rather
spend the money on your
honeymoon.
IN YOUR SHOES

9. Your partner is a heavy smoker.
You’ve asked him/her to stop it
but he/she refuses.
IN YOUR SHOES

10. Your parents, who are doctors,
want you to become a doctor,
too.
But you want to be a musician.
IN YOUR SHOES

11. You’d like to emigrate but you
have neither connections nor
friends abroad
IN YOUR SHOES

12. Some colleagues saw you having
lunch with someone from your
office who is married.
Everyone thinks you are having
an affair
IN YOUR SHOES