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Chapter 97 Life is Beautiful
[Russia] Chekhov

Life is a very unpleasant joke, but it is not difficult to make it good.

Life is a very unpleasant joke, but it is not difficult to make it good.To do this, it is not enough to win the lottery and win 20 rubles, get the Order of the White Eagle, marry a beautiful woman, and be famous as a good person—these blessings are impermanent and easy to get used to.In order to be consistently happy, you need to be good at being content with the status quo, feeling happy about, "Things could have been worse." It's not hard.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.

Heart mark notes
The color of the mood can determine the color of the world.People with strong mentality adjustment ability can see the positive side in a bad situation.And people with poor mentality adjustment ability, once faced with a bad situation, will fall into an extremely depressed 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.

Hold a grateful heart!No matter what kind of suffering, it is not the worst.As long as you adjust your state of mind to Xianming, you will find that life is always beautiful!

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