📍Background: Anseong Farmland, Korea
📖 Source: “Nietzsche’s Life Lessons: 66 Pieces of Wisdom Left by Nietzsche”

The path ahead, warm light between the trees.

They say that if you live an average lifespan,
you’ll spend:
🛏️ 22 years sleeping,
💼 26 years working,
😟 10 years worrying,
😠 7 years being angry.

And laughing?
Just 89 days.

That number stopped me in my tracks.
It made me pause,
staring into the distance at nothing.
How could a life—lived with so much striving,
so much searching for happiness—
contain so little laughter?

❓And so I ask myself:

• When was the last time I laughed so hard I cried?
• How many times did I smile today?
• Have I let the little things make me happy?

🌱 I remember this moment:

That peaceful moment when light broke through the clouds.

One winter, I traveled alone.
Snow was falling. The world was quiet.
A Shiba dog looked up at me with snow on its nose—
and I couldn’t stop laughing.

It was simple. It was silly.
But that laugh stayed with me.

Sometimes, the most lasting happiness
comes from the most ordinary moments.

🗣 Nietzsche once said:

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
(paraphrased from Nietzsche’s thoughts on joy and lightness in life)

✨ So here’s my promise to myself:

Today, I choose joy.
Not success.
Not meaning.
Just joy.
Even if only for a few seconds.
Because in the end,
those seconds are what I’ll remember.