Everyone knows that time spent in joy and pleasure passes unnoticed and very quickly. But painful waiting or difficult work, on the contrary, drag on endlessly, and it seems that there will never be an end to them. Writers, prose writers and poets formulated this idea in different ways and repeatedly. Scientists also have their own opinions on this issue.
Poets about time
The German poet Johann Schiller was one of those who said: " Happy Hours They’re not watching.” He expressed his thought, however, somewhat differently. In the drama Piccolomini, written by him in 1800, there is a phrase that, loosely translated, sounds like this: “For those who are happy, the chime of the clock is not heard.”
“Stop, just a moment, you’re beautiful!” - in these lines Goethe hears regret that everything good in life passes too quickly, and at the same time expresses a passionate desire to expand the time boundaries of this joyful state.
What did the one who said: “Happy people don’t watch the clock” want to express? The elusiveness of happiness, the impossibility of feeling it instantly, and only its subsequent understanding has always worried both philosophers and ordinary people thinking about life. “Happiness is what once was,” many people think. “Now I remember, and I understand that it was then that I was happy,” others say. And everyone agrees that “good, but not enough...”
Griboyedov and his aphorisms
To the question of who said: “Happy people don’t watch the clock,” there is a clear answer. This is Griboyedov’s Sophia from the comedy “Woe from Wit,” which was published in 1824.
In modern Russian there are many proverbs and sayings borrowed from literary works. They are so widespread that their use no longer indicates erudition. Not everyone who says the words “I would be glad to serve, it’s sickening to be served” has certainly read the immortal comedy and knows that Chatsky said it. The same applies to the expression “happy people don’t watch hours.” Griboyedov wrote aphoristically, he became the author of many catch phrases. Just four words, one of which is a preposition, convey deep For anyone who understands literature, it is clear that the ability to convey in a laconic form complex picture being is a sign high art, and sometimes the genius of the author.
Alexander Sergeevich Griboedov was a multi-talented person. A poet, composer and diplomat, he passed away at tragic circumstances, defending the interests of the homeland. He was only 34 years old. The poem “Woe from Wit” and Griboyedov’s Waltz forever entered the treasury of Russian culture.
Einstein, love, clock and frying pan
Scientists were also not indifferent to the issue of time. One of the people who said, “Happy people don’t watch the clock,” was none other than Albert Einstein. He generally believed that if a researcher cannot explain the essence of his work to a five-year-old child in five minutes, then he can safely be called a charlatan. When a correspondent with no understanding of physics asked Einstein what “relativity of time” meant, he found figurative example. If a young man is talking with a girl dear to his heart, then for him many hours will seem like an instant. But if the same young man is seated on a hot frying pan, then every second for him will be equivalent to a century. This is the interpretation given to the phrase “happy people don’t watch hours” by the author of the theory of relativity.
Seven years ago, on December 5, 2008, Patriarch Alexy II left this world
The Patriarch is always a historical figure, and they remember him as the High Hierarch, and evaluate his deeds in the same way. For many, the title itself obscures ordinary person. This is understandable, because the inner circle of His Holiness is very small. Today “Orthodox Moscow” gives the floor to those who are lucky enough to know Patriarch Alexy from this very human side.
If it weren't for Berezovsky...
Archpriest Vladimir Vigilyansky
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rector of the Church of the Holy Martyr Tatiana at Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov, in 2005–2012. Head of the Press Service of the Moscow Patriarchate (in 2009 transformed into the Press Service of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus')
In late autumn 2000, I received a call from the Patriarchate:
– You should be with Patriarch Alexy on Thursday at 14.00.
He asked with excitement:
– You don’t know – on what issue?
Answered:
– I’ll clarify now... Yes, yes, exactly at 14.00
I racked my brain for a long time - why did His Holiness need me? For some reason it seemed that this challenge was not good. Before this I had never communicated with the Patriarch. Or rather, I served with him - more than once, but I never had the opportunity to speak.
Arrived at the appointed time, waited half an hour. I enter the office. The Patriarch gets up, walks towards him, smiling, sits him in the chair opposite, and offers:
- Tell us about yourself.
I was taken aback. He started talking about his parents. When I told him that on my mother’s side my ancestors were French who lived and worked in Russia, His Holiness perked up and began asking clarifying questions. Then he started talking about his German ancestors. He told how he was raised as a monarchist, that one of his grandfathers was a White Guard shot by the Bolsheviks. I mentioned in passing that I live in the same place as him - in Peredelkino.
An hour later the Patriarch got down to business:
– Boris Abramovich Berezovsky invited me to become one of the shareholders of the Public Russian Television, enter a certain Teletrast. I, of course, want nothing to do with this gentleman, but I am advised not to shy away from the offer for the sake of the church's benefit. However, I won't be able to do this myself. We need a trusted person to represent our interests in managing the channel. Do you agree to be this person?
I answered as is our custom:
- How bless, Your Holiness.
The Patriarch wrote down my phone number and gave me his number. He said that they would call me to formalize the power of attorney, and that I could call him at any time.
As I learned from the press some time later, Boris Berezovsky sold 49% of his ORT shares to Roman Abramovich for almost 150 million dollars (later it turned out that “only” for 10 million). And now I think: if not for Berezovsky, there would not have been this confidential conversation between His Holiness and me, this “secret” between us. Subsequently, he jokingly called me “countryman” (due to the fact that we lived in Peredelkino), noted, driving past my house, that I had “changed the picket fence,” and eventually offered to become his press secretary.
Talking chronometer
Deacon Sergius Pravdolyubov,
cleric of the Church of St. Innocent of Moscow in Beskudnikov, 2001–2007. – Subdeacon of His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II
In September 2002, during the all-night vigil at the Epiphany Cathedral in Yelokhov, the senior subdeacon and cell attendant of His Holiness Sergei Kuksov left me for a while in his place. At that moment, one of us had to be close to the Patriarch in case he needed something. I stand and look at His Holiness as he blesses and talks to someone. Everyone came up, was blessed, the Patriarch stood alone. Suddenly he makes a sign to me, I approach:
- How much time? - asks the Holy One.
The fact is that the Patriarch always wore a watch in a thin case, so that under the straps it would not put pressure on his hand. Therefore, when he was in vestments, he often asked the nearest subdeacon what time it was.
– Your Holiness, I don’t know! I don't have a watch, but I'll go and ask now.
Behind the column, the rector of the cathedral, Protopresbyter Matthew Stadnyuk, sits on a stool and extends his hand to me: “Here, look at what time it is.” I return to the Patriarch:
– Twenty minutes to six, Your Holiness.
– Happy hours don’t watch!
I still don’t know if His Holiness just said this, or if he meant my recent wedding, for which I asked him for his blessing in the spring.
Aristocrat of the Spirit
Abbess Victorina (Perminova),
Abbess of the Nativity of the Mother of God stauropegial monastery
Patriarch Alexy was born into a deeply religious family and inherited from his parents the love of God, as well as aristocracy in in the best sense this word... More than once I observed how His Holiness the Patriarch communicated with the most different people. He could, contrary to protocol, devote time to an ordinary, unremarkable person, listen to him with attention and respect, seeing in him the Image of God. And the interlocutor felt warmth and participation and understood that he was heard.
Only a loving, spiritually sensitive person who does not live for himself can truly hear another. True ascetics had such sensitivity. This shocked the boy Alyosha on Valaam, where he saw the elders high life who supported his spiritual spirit and warmly responded to his childhood letters. And all his life he tried to follow their example.
The ever-memorable Patriarch Alexy could business conversation or simply, when communicating with people, say a simple and seemingly insignificant phrase, but do it with such love and kindness and so timely that what was said encouraged and inspired hope.
Photo by Vladimir Khodakov
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