The Book of Living - страница 6

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Withta, it comes unnoticed, someone immediately, after any illness, that it is very difficult or almost impossible to recover in age. It is rare for people to maintain working capacity, as in their youth, but age is not an appetite, if it starts, it does not go back.

Look for your person from the heart, external beauty is lapped, and after some time you will begin to communicate with souls, not bodies.

Don't be jealous

There are many commandments, but envy is one of the most terrible, because it is the locomotive and idea of other crimes. There will always be someone who lives better than you, always. So it's a dead end idea to be envious.

Stop looking at others with a sense of envy, and when they say "white" or "black" envy, it's still envy. Envy eats up happiness, so they say simply: if you want to be happy, be happy. Try to notice people around you who are more unhappy than you are, and, of course, help them whenever possible. But compared to them, you may feel happier.

Most importantly, do not forget that you are a person, and not one who sets out to find the best place for yourself.

Friends

There's no point in compressing everything you've said about friends in this chapter right now. The idea of this book was to say something else that I think is very important.

You can have thousands of friends, but no one will conditionally congratulate you on your birthday. Although I have already described about the birthday, and I have my own attitude to it. In general, there is no need to confuse friends and acquaintances.

Otherpeople who are not related can sometimes be much closer to you than relatives. Although, rather, it even happens more often. And there's nothing wrong or negative about it. The fact is that the probability that there is a person among your relatives who is closer to you inmentality is very small. Navernoe, you may now recall that your character was often compared to an uncle or grandfather, a grandmother who lives in another city or is no longer alive. The probability of similarity in the character of the closest first-line relatives is very small, and it is much easier to find your own person, like-minded person in society.

And in fact, people with the same mindset or lifestyle are more likely to find a common language, they are attracted to each other, they are interested in each other.