I almost knocked on the window. I wanted to tell Gagin at the same time that I asked for his sister's hand in marriage. But such a match at such a time... "See you tomorrow", I thought, "tomorrow I will be happy... ".
Tomorrow I will be happy!* Happiness has no tomorrow; He doesn't even have yesterday; He does not remember the past, does not think about the future; He has a gift - and it's not a day, but a moment.
Asia.
Ivan Turgenev.
*It is interesting how differently Eckhart Tula and Ivan Turgenev present happiness in the moment. For Tull, this is the practice of presence: not holding onto the moment, but simply being in it. After all, there is nothing else. For the hero of the Russian classics, everything is different: the young N.N. In anticipation of tomorrow's happiness, he does not hear himself, but is revealed by the already older narrator - the same person who remembers his naivety. The sadness here is not even that you can't hold the moment, but that the hero didn't notice it: he was all about "tomorrow". Start your day with wisdom and beauty 😍.
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