LGMW MAGAZINE

Whoever lands on Mars first will have all the power imaginable. Or rather: whoever lands on Mars first will have all the power of imagination. Of those who first imagined the planets among those dots in the sky. Of those who first branched away from the flat‑Earth worldview and indeed separated knowledge from belief. Of those who created telescopes and calculated the orbits of the closest astronomical bodies. Of all those who were first in their tracks on this path and who ga

What does the word “happiness” mean, and what makes me happy? There is a Russian saying: one person complains that his pearls are too small, another – that his soup is too thin. Everyone has their own idea of happiness, and the criteria for this state change as life goes on. The more I observe myself and others, the more I become convinced that perhaps a person cannot be happy in principle. Or if they can, then only for a very brief moment. Right now, happiness for me mean

Happy is such a short word for everything that it entails. What makes me happy? Things that happen in my life. Not all the things, of course. But also, not only joyful ones. It makes me happy to feel alive, which means feeling all sorts of feelings – from excitement to sadness, from pleasure to pain, from relief of letting go to the loss of what mattered. Hap-py – can I call myself a happy person? I’m not sure. I can definitely call myself a “happening” person – I like this l