We often feel we could do with some new material improvement that will bring miraculous changes in our health. Some people actually believe that by increasing sports facilities they get a healthier nation in no time, for example. Others are not so sure about it and suspect that we need some altogether different approach to the public health issue.

 

I don’t think that sports centres or gyms at an arm length can motivate anyone just for being there. And talking about sport addicts, they must be happy to jog an additional mile or two anyway, no doubt. No one from my family, myself including, goes more than once or twice a year to the wonderful stadium we’ve got just next door. I have reasons to believe that our neighbours don’t use it too often either - the place is very quiet most of the time.

 

Fortunately, there is always hope for the not healthy enough population.  There are some well-known measures, health benefits of which it’s hard to deny. Let’s think of imposing the Spartan lifestyle on a nation; I cannot see how that can fail to bring some increase in the health level of its citizens. Although there might be some difficulties in execution of the great plan, yet we could imagine the benefits.

No matter how much I would like to get some help on the path to health, still I have to rely on simple stimuli like a handsome friend around or at least a charismatic film star I can watch on the screen, to make me energized enough to keep fit and be happy using all available means around.

    I was not brave enough to take responsibility for my life even in my late twenties – it’s just the truth I have to face. I’ve got it in me to embellish everything around and wear rose-tinted glasses at any time, but I think, in order to be a successful writer, I have to face some facts about my situation and be more observant of others.          Wearing eyesight-correcting lenses, paying attention to my posture are also not entirely useless activities. All I need is a bit of conscious effort and my experiences would change their flavor.  I mean, I have to make an effort to expel Russian traditional expectations for a proper woman’ senses such as self-sacrifice, suffering and victimhood from my system completely. They, probably, still influence me in no small degree. I had seen it in my mother, and since then I have been trying to get rid of those feelings. I understood how harmful conformity was to intelligence and joy, how all the effort to please others was in vain anyway. Most of the people I know always think themselves better than others and some of them envy success even of their nearest kin.

     Love and friendship must be beneficial and bring joy instead of being harmful or abusive.  By the way, the same applies to getting knowledge; it’s definitely a good idea to learn from inspiring and creative people one really likes and understand. Life is indeed short and there is a lot to enjoy in mine, I just have to brave independence, firstly of mind, and let’s see what positive changes it will bring.