Today (I wrote this text on the 18th of February, 2024), I will try to explain how little I need for happiness.
Of course, I wrote many times here, on the www.adammazek.com website, that happiness is a choice and happy people need nothing because they are happy. Still, while walking on Warsaw’s streets on the day when I wrote this text, I simply felt endorphins buzzing in my blood. While walking, I started to wonder how little I needed for happiness: a walk in the sun in mid-February, doing street photography, exposing my body to cold (I walked around dressed in summer clothes at 7 degrees Celsius [44.6 degrees Fahrenheit]), and an empty stomach (the last meal I ate was one day earlier at 10 p.m.; also I decided that I won’t eat anything on the 18th of February, 2024.
Thus, my next meal will be on the 19th of February in the evening).
While walking in the chilling cold, I felt spring was coming. It was a moment when my mind and soul were reborn. I suppose many people have a similar feeling regarding the upcoming spring. Nature is being reborn slowly from the long winter dream. I also saw a guy who also wore summer clothes. He was walking as it was the middle of summer. Perhaps he also felt the upcoming spring or was simply exposing his body to coldness. I do not know it.
What I understand is that I do not need many things to be happy. When I walk, I feel totally free. When I do street photography, I feel I realize my soul. Also, when I expose my body to cold, I feel alive. When I eat rarely, I feel healthy. Once I felt the sun’s rays in the middle of February, I felt a euphoric state of mind.
