"Tell me, why is it I'm so happy
today? As if I were sailing, with the wide, blue sky above me, and great white birds
soaring in the wind. Why is it? Why? I woke up this morning, I got up, I wash and
suddenly I felt everything in this world
was clear to me.
I felt I knew how life had to be lived. Dear Ivan Romanich, I
can see it all. A human being has to labour, whoever he happens to be, he has
to toil in the sweat of his face; that’s the only way he can find the sense and
purpose of his life, his happiness, his delight."
"How fine to be a working man
who rises at first light and breaks stones on the road, or a shepherd, or a
teacher, or an engine driver on the railway...
Lord, never mind being human
even better to be an ox, better to be a simple horse, just so long as you work anything
rather than a young lady who rises at noon, then drinks her coffee in bed, then
takes two hours to dress... that’s terrible!
In hot weather sometimes you long
to drink the way I began longing to work. And if I don’t start getting up early
and working, then shut your heart against me, Ivan Romanich."
"Three Sisters"
Anton P. Chekhov
Yours truly,
CFJ team
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