Today (I wrote this text on the 15th of August, 2025), I will provide a guarantee of health and well-being by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
I’ve already written a text about seventeen trees. A famous Russian writer wrote in one of his letters to his brother (while being imprisoned in jail) that the only thing he needed to be happy was seventeen trees in the jail garden. In another letter to his brother, he wrote about another guarantee of health and well-being. It was a piece of blue sky that he saw from his prison cell. He wrote he was alive and healthy, and this blue sky guaranteed it to him. Now, remind yourself, my Dear Friend, when was the last time trees or the blue sky made you happy? I hope it happened on the day you read this text. If not, I recommend starting to appreciate the most usual things in our lives to not get crazy, and to simply be happy.
After all, happy people do not need much (except a piece of blue sky and a couple of trees), because they are happy.
I often try to remind myself of all these things when I have a lousy mood. Of course, I am only a human, not a demigod. I know that a lousy mood is an inevitable part of human life. Still, until I am healthy and alive, I should not be sad. Undoubtedly, I do not try to find peace and comfort in material things and consumptionism. I do not want to be a mindless consumer who buys stuff for the sake of buying it. Money, in general, is a trap. Of course, we all need money, but I do not believe earning money should be people’s main aim in life. I will stop writing. I need to go to sleep and enjoy one of the most mundane and beautiful activities people can do. Being rested after a long sleep is also something that makes me happy.
