MEDITATION ON...

We, people of well-developed countries, are unhappy because we focus to much on our emotions. I love a scene from the movie The Iron Lady with the fantastic Meryl Streep who plays the role of the prime minister of Great Britain — Margaret Thatcher. She went to the doctor and he asked her how she was feeling. She was outraged and answered that nowadays too many people focus on emotions and feelings instead of thinking about how to solve their problems and to work. Better ask me what do I work on, or what do I do, what goals do I have.
Covid changed a lot, confused many things, but if it hadn’t appeared, I would probably never have written a book and would never have found out how much pleasure I find in writing, and how it helps me to chill out. I would never have learnt so many things about writing, marketing, and e-commerce. I just want to say that there’s always a way out of every situation, and that we can always look at the positives. Sometimes, the only thing we need is to put less attention on ourselves, on how we feel, and simply begin to act, work. We can use this time to learn new skills. Perhaps we never had time to do that and now we have. We can learn a new language or fast typing. We can begin to explore the world by reading books or watching vlogs on YouTube. My friend began to embroider and she makes a lot of nice and useful things.
Christopher Reeve is an actor, I guess, widely-known by most of you. He had a specific face and played the role of Superman. However, he was a simple human in a real life. Once he fell off a runaway horse, broke his neck, and was paralyzed. The injury was so serious that since then he could never breath on his own and was connected to the respirator. How did he feel? He surely had many reasons to go to pieces. He had a promising career — he was a movie star. He likely had some moments of doubts, crisis, or just as he had said “a will to die”. But he never focused on that. He never allowed his mind to feel sorry for himself, and he began to act. The former Superman was elected Chairman of the American Paralysis Association of the National Organization on Disability whose goal is to make people aware of the importance of medical exams on paralysis. He agreed to test on his body new methods of the therapy with the goal to heal his spinal cord injury. He released an autobiography Still Me in 1998 which became a bestseller. Together with his wife Dan, he opened in Short Hills, New Jersey the first center for paralyzed people in order to help them cope with life challenges. His wife led a foundation which supported research on curing the effects of paralysis. Surely his life as an actor would have gone in a different direction, but due to his strong will to fight and good attitude he never gave up and made perfect use of his possibilities.