120 philosophical essays you must read in your life

Chapter 127

Chapter 7 Chapter 13 Life is Good

[Russia] Chekhov

Life is a very unpleasant joke, but it is not very difficult to make it good.In order to achieve this, it is not enough to win the lottery and win 20 rubles, get a "White Eagle" medal, marry a beautiful woman, and be famous as a good person-these blessings are impermanent and easy Habit.In order to continue to feel happy, you need to: ([-]) be good at satisfying the status quo; ([-]) be happy to feel: "Things could have been worse." This is not difficult.If the match ignites while it's in your pocket, you should be glad, and thank God—for your pocket isn't a powder magazine.

If a poor relative comes to the villa to see you, don't turn pale, but exclaim happily: "That's good, luckily it's not the police!"

If you get a thorn in your finger, you should be happy: "It's good, it's a good thing the thorn didn't get stuck in the eye!"

If your wife or aunt practices the piano, instead of losing your temper, be grateful for the blessing—you're listening to music, not howling wolves or meowing cats.

You should be happy because you're not a long-distance carriage horse, Kirk's "little spot," a trichinella, a pig, a donkey, a gypsy bear, a bedbug... Be happy because right now you You didn't sit in the dock, didn't see your creditors in front of you, and didn't talk to the editor-in-chief Turba about the payment of the manuscript.If you don't live in a very remote place, don't you feel happy when you think that fate has not sent you to a remote place?

If you have a toothache, you should be glad--thankfully it's not a mouthful of toothaches.

You should be glad you don't have to read The Citizen, sit in a garbage truck, marry three people at once...  

If you're sent to the police station, you'll be jumping for joy, because it didn't send you to the fire of hell.

If you've been hit with a birch stick, you should be jumping up and down, and crying, "It's my luck that I'm not hit with a barbed stick!"

If your wife has a change of heart about you, be happy, because she betrayed you, not the country.

And so on... My friend, do as I advise, and your life will be full of joy.

【Together with you】

He who rejects the shadow also blocks the sun.Everything is like the positive and negative sides of a coin. When you encounter the good side, you will definitely encounter the unsatisfactory side.People with a strong ability to adjust their mentality can see the good side in a bad situation.People with poor mentality adjustment ability will fall into an extremely depressed situation once faced with a bad situation.The quality of mentality can affect our life and also affect our destiny.Optimists and pessimists sometimes only have a difference in one idea, but it can make a huge difference between the two worlds.Whether your life is full or not depends on your attitude towards life.If life is not happy here and now, why not be brave and try to change it?See it as an opportunity to innovate, and perhaps bring joy along the way.

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