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eudemonia

By Elvis LanzaPublished 3 years ago 3 min read

In the northeast of England, there is a small town called Catchy Town, the people of the town live in peace and contentment, and enjoy a peaceful and happy life. The people in their village benefit from the blessings of their ancestors, and the welfare treatment of the government is good, so for some time, the work they need to do every day is how to play? How to be free? The men would gather to study poker cards, said to be an ancient Oriental art form, while the women would gather to idle away their time.

Such a day has been continued until one morning, a woman called Chia began to appear strange headache symptoms, her love was shocked, immediately sent her to the nearby hospital, but the results of the examination turned out to be, her body did not have any strange, the doctor shook his head, thinking that it may be cold, pack some medicine to let her go home to recuperate.

She had not yet recovered, and another man had the same disease, with more symptoms than Chia.

Less than half a year, the small village strange sick people began to increase, but everyone's test results show that there is no strange, all the tests are qualified, the town for a time the legend has, we think that the earth gas of the problem, some people simply invited the witch to come, some people think that can not so let the happy life go by, Should hurry up and move out of this "hellhole".

Chia's lover loved Chia very much, watching her symptoms worsen, his heart was very painful, and he spent all his savings on Chia's illness, but the effect was not very obvious.

In this way, they soon returned to the poor origin of life. As a result, Chia's husband became the first man in the town to go out and earn money digging coal not far from the town. Chia knew that the coal mine was very dangerous, so she often brought him food, and after a few days of continuous running, Chia felt that the symptoms of illness had eased. She was overjoyed and extended the distance and frequency of her running. At first she brought food once a day, or sometimes she did not go, until she brought all three meals a day to the mine. Every day she measured the distance between life and the land with her feet.

Half a year later, Chia's disease was strangely better and no longer needed to be treated with drugs, until suddenly one day, she appeared in front of the doctor with a healthy face and her husband, and the doctor had not seen this disease for many years.

Until the patients in the small town began to emulate Chia to make every day full of life, no longer gather together to do nothing, their pain began to ease one by one, and gradually recover.

The doctor's name was Drow, and he was also a psychologist. After carefully analyzing the causes and consequences of the matter, he decisively reached the conclusion that they were suffering from "happiness disease".

The reasons he explained were as follows: everyday life was plain and easy, the body was idle for a long time, the body was stuck, the brain could not maintain the normal metabolism of life, until typhoid fever accumulated and began to appear illness, which he called "happiness disease".

Turns out, too comfortable life, can actually breed such a strange disease.

A lake, quiet as a virgin, after a long time, dirt is abundant, dangerous animals breed, local residents take many measures, are ineffective, one day, a passerby heard the news came to see, he said the solution to the problem: Let the new water continue to inject, let the fishermen continue to gain benefits from the lake, let the children keep coming, and play a beautiful water float on the lake.

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    Written by Elvis Lanza