Alexey Navalny: "Recipe for happiness"

"Well, let's talk about achieving happiness. Category: Lifehacks from Alexei Navalny. In fact, the prison really contributes to a feeling of happiness. A short-term, but still. You just need to be able to arrange a holiday. As soon as they put me, I decided that it is very important to celebrate and celebrate something. So that the days did not merge into routine. I decided to celebrate Sundays. I turn them into a holiday. I really love bread.

“So, I didn’t take bread all week. And on Sunday morning I took a loaf, spread oil on a piece of bread, brewed coffee and had such a divine festive breakfast, which is never in the wild.

Guess why the clone?

23 days of hunger strike + 23 days of a very strict, conservative way out of it. I did not violate anything. He surprised himself with the power of will. Apparently, Vera helped her rightness. And since March 11, I have not eaten anything sweet at all. I'll write about this separately. Therefore, when I started to leave the hunger strike, I knew exactly what I would do on May 16 in the morning. And in the diary he immediately wrote: "A very good day. Bread, oil, coffee. The first time in 46 days."

The plan almost broke. Bread and oil are given here in the morning, but I did not have coffee. Fortunately, a neighbor with a soluble jar drove into my camera.

And here is May 16. Usually at such moments you feel a slight disappointment. Reality is a little boring than what you have been waiting for a long time. But not in my case. The weather is excellent. I opened the window - and hell with him that there was a grille - brewed coffee, smeared a piece of white bread with oil. He sat on the bunks. He bit and drank from the mug.

I say to you: if there was a device that measured happiness, then no oligarch that has breakfast on a yacht, not a single visitor to the Michelin restaurant experienced 1/10 of the complete happiness that I had. One of the sips made for your health - everyone who helped and supported.

So the recipe for happiness (short): Choose what you love very much, deprive yourself of this for a while, and then return it. Well, just remember that this does not apply to people. You always love your beloved people. "