What should you do if you still wobble like that palm over there? Our travelers went along the marvelous Dominican beach and realized it was a bad idea to visit the Atlantic in winter. Yet we cannot turn back to the past, I think you know it, and the past teaches us a lot. It teaches there is absolutely no need in standing under palms while Dominican wind. One of these trees was just rooted out and floated somewhere into the distance, towards the irresistible wind and to any outcome.
So what do you have to do when you rock? The key is to accept the existence of the wind strength, calm down and come up with how you can get the maximum advantage from it. For example, if the wind blows, you can at least set sail and move at full speed in the direction of your goals. Zhenka and Earlyborn had great goals. They were enthusiastic about travelling, notwithstanding fierce wind attacks on the land, and they craved to have a trip around the world. Would they meet the Carcharocles megalodon? If yes, they would take a photo with it. And what would they do if they turn shipwrecked? They would break the world record in swimming breaststroke. Various thoughts literally leaked out of siblings’ ears, they had fun, and if the wind was to blame for it, the wind had to stop blowing. The wind stopped blowing, and fun disappeared. Such changes like these, with the weather, occur in the mind of a dubious, yet mostly steady person. When the storm finished, they continued walking alone the beach. It became sunny and amazing, and you could well tell there was no disaster if there was no pit after that palm tree was ripped out from the ground. The night passed by, and exactly during this part of the day all the colours mix together, and the world draws as the dark matter, consisting of black holes. And, conversely, we face with white holes of our consciousness that craves to realize why we are so afraid of night.
The lesson Earlyborn and Zhenka learned yesterday was that he laughs best who can laugh well. They argued, sitting under a small tarpaulin awning of a hut near the shore, about what is better: to live in comfort, working hard and from your heart, but a bit slowly, on your favourite doing, say, writing poems, or to work tirelessly, as a black raven that caws at 3 a. m. in the Moscow sky. They disputed a lot and then went for a stroll, still pondering about. The siblings found neither of their ideas good.
In this life two things are not worth doing: to believe other people’s ideas and use them obediently, as though it is the universal truth, and to argue with somebody and stray them from their conceptions about the life. When we sincerely want to help a person and try to speak with him, we still argue. It is better to be silent. Humility often leads to good continuity. The restlessness, on the contrary,—to good discontinuity. The last good can easily go from you to other people. I have a piece of advice for you, my friends: you must never believe anybody. Believe your parents only, yet, maybe, also that seller on the beach, who told Zhenka and Earlyborn that the coffee with bananas and mint he made today was, frankly speaking, not excellent. Stop trusting other people as soon as they start imposing you thoughts that breaks down your morality and your theories on being successful. The storms at the beach continued and took away the boredom from our characters’ minds.
If only someone could take away our boredom like this! If you have not read my book “Honesty", I will explain: imagine that you have an execution in a moment, and you will feel your tedium fading from you. I mean when you are in danger, you realize that your life is the complete enjoyment. If you have not read my book “Kindness”, you have now the chance to do that and learn that there are people, either soldiers or unknown people, who died to let us live happily. And here again you should not get way to sadness. Let’s have a look at reasons for melancholy. The first one is when a person runs himself ragged, like a runner, who breathes wrongly, or a horse ridden to death, and cannot get his breath back to write the word “life” so that “l” does not touch “i”, and “i” does not touch the lower line. This person is most lucky, to be honest, since he is able to continue his doings (for everyone has their plans), and he will succeed. Others, for instance, those who are sad on account of luck of goals in life, will be glad to hear that everything which can be returned to its normal state, will sooner or later improve. And what cannot be improved, should be consigned to oblivion. Why does a person need some unnecessary information? Most directly, if you feel sad, but not mourning, you either continue your doings or start everything from the beginning, what is, to tell the truth, is more satisfying. Well, in all three situations, it is better simply to go and work. Then the sadness will surely disappear.
Chapter 17
Luisian arrived in Moscow. So pleasant a feeling you experience when you get right into real Russian frost! This emotion cannot be compared with any of the life attractions – neither a massage session on the Bahamas islands, nor the satisfaction of the hunger. It is equal to a dining table after the New Year’s Eve, where there is nothing except black and white bread and a little bottle of water.
There was approximately minus twenty degrees Celsius. The night fell on the city when Luisian arrived. The carriage which brought him here had no boredom and sadness inside. One of his travelling companions managed to bring an electric fireplace. It smelled wonderful and emanated warm light through the darkness of night. Obviously, Moscow is a city of thousand thousands lights, but I suppose each Muscovite should draw in mind a picture for a moment that his pleasure finished, and cold autumn came to Moscow, and all the lights were cut off. The clocks showed already ten p. m. Luisian arrived at Kievsky Railway Station in the city center. And where the city is, there the Red Square also is. There is a well-known esplanade along the Kremlin—the beloved area for strolls as everyone enjoys walking there and still walks. Imagine this city with no famous lights, just without those charming gleams of Krasnaya Presnya, reflecting in the eyes of Peter the Great’s monument right in front of the Krymsky Bridge… Moscow. Imagine how changed people’s way of life for the quite short period of time—some hundreds of years! Some twenty one hundreds! How strong is the impact of the social networks, computer, TV and, which is the most predictable, going to bed late. That is an awful feeling when you see you can hardly do things in time, you are always in a hurry! I say, these talks are rose from nothing. Here you can either move to the village to be calm down by the drizzling rain of years or to take for granted the situation in which everyone lives in society and prefers to be on the same footing. Yet and computers, and social networks do not influence on our position in society.
Let’s dream there will never be any light in the world. People will use to it, and the sadness will vanish. Things will return back to their origins – savage era, where veal stakes will be replaced with mammoth ones. There will be no colossal changes in life. At times you should think about yourself and not others. This is better for your heart. The minutes come when your health is needed in your care. If you want to live for two hundred years (as I do and put it as my first goal), you should take care of your health first. You will not worry about trifles. Are you interested in your C mark in maths? Well, now you are. But in twenty years you will deem it a little thing! And in two hundred? We often fume about nothing. And this is the reason for people not to live up to the age they wished to. Yet they wished. It worth not to be on tenterhooks that much and not to hamper yourself from reasonably walking toward your aims and not hamper other people. You should meticulously work on yourself and move at a slow pace through the field of your aims, as sometimes a submarine moves through the freezing in ice when the temperature is about zero degrees Celsius.