I know it might sound strange but relaxation for me doesn’t always mean the traditional form of having a rest. Since I do intellectual work most of the time and my mind can’t have a break even when I’m trying to sort out my things in the city, so for me real relaxation is physical work. In my experience, intellectual tiredness (even bad mood) can be cured with physical work. If you are dead tired and don’t even want to move, you won’t burden yourself with mental or spiritual problems for granted… Well, you don’t have to think of any very burdensome work! But if I think it over a substantial cleaning really makes you move…
When All Seems Lost — and Even When It Doesn’t… As a writer, I read more than average. Not necessarily books that fall within my immediate interests, but rather those I can learn from, marvel at, analyze word by word, and sometimes even those that demand more effort from me than usual. That is how it is with Alice Munro. I bought my first book by her when she received the Nobel Prize. Then life happened, and the volume sat on my bookshelf—either I had no time for it, or it lingered somewhere at the bottom of my list of priorities. When I finally picked it up, I could hardly believe my eyes—or my reaction. First, I was utterly outraged; my blood pressure shot through the roof in an instant, and I almost started swearing in disbelief. I had barely skimmed the first few lines, yet that was enough to know: it was perfect. A true masterpiece. Excellence among the excellent. Every word reached the deepest layers of my soul. I was touched by its purity, its delicacy, the noblest simpli...
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