"If you only knew how many friends I buried who led an exceptionally healthy lifestyle!"

There are so many pretentious "storehouses of wisdom" on the web that teach how to live properly. But there are also honest, simple messages to people written from the heart, convincingly and strongly. 

Svetlana Kazina (Vetka) is a traveler, artist, self-taught photographer whose pictures have flown all over the world. And she's just a good and wise person. Svetlana lives in Altai and often publishes stunning nature photos on her website. When she wrote this post on Facebook, it collected more than 18 thousand likes and almost 14 thousand repostings. We, too, could not pass by, touched by simple and wise words that can change our attitude to life.

You will find the text below. The spelling and punctuation of the original are preserved. And draw your own conclusions.

"People‼ My dear people! I've been wanting to write this post for a long time. But you wouldn't have believed me before, and now is the time! And I've already been bombarded with questions on this topic.

1. Diseases do not come from the fact that the ecology is bad, the water is dirty, the food is plastic and we move a little. Not at all! This is the first.

Diseases do not come from being in the city or in the country. Believe me, the human body is an ideal machine for adaptation to any conditions and food. Here we, the villagers, cannot eat your city powdered food, drink your water and smell your air. But not because it's all dirty. But because it's different. Unusual for our body.

What makes you think that if you live on the seashore in the lotus position, you won't get sick? If you only knew how many friends I buried who led an exceptionally healthy lifestyle!

You will never understand why the disease comes. Stop bothering with the concepts of "impossible", "diet" and "sin". It won't lengthen your life. For the disease is not in the body, the disease is in the head!

So just LIVE IN PLEASURE!

- Learn to finally eat what you like, and not what is useful. Just eat it, not eat it.

- Can't quit smoking? Don't quit! But do not smoke with remorse, but with pleasure. It is not necessary to quit smoking at all. You have to WANT not to smoke. And the ban always works the other way around.

- Don't be fooled by the appeals of fashion, time, the Internet, etc... Don't put on alien and false images of a highly spiritual personality.

It's impossible to be sad to watch social media accounts. Whatever Marivanna is, it's the "Call of the Universe" or "Flying Rainbow"! Whatever Palpalych, then "Svyatogor smashing" or "The Eye of Justice". Whatever the wall, then a series of pictures with the third eye, yin-yang and mandalas. Whatever the account, it is a list of aphorisms of lamas, soothsayers, elders, suddenly wiser actors and wise men who never existed.

- Do what you wanted and dreamed of doing since childhood. Master guitar, piano, vocals, downhill skiing, watercolor, mosaic, clay, etc. There are no people who do not have creative inclinations, I'm telling you this as an artist. Don't dream about a motorcycle, but buy one! Don't save up your dreams, they go out and rot in the nooks and crannies of the brain!

- Do you like privacy? Retire for fun. Are you afraid of loneliness? Go to the people)))

- Find joy and pleasure in everything. Even in the one where, it would seem, this cannot be.

- And most importantly: people, the way of life should not be healthy, but HAPPY!

And in general, I will now reveal to you the most important secret of life and the very meaning of life: there is no meaning of life!)))

And there is Death. And she comes at any time, at any age. So do you have time to live someone else's dreams, imposed ideas and social norms?

Live in pleasure and do not look for the causes of diseases and deaths among relatives and artists. We are not given to understand this. But Life is given. And it should be lived in Joy. Without interfering with the joy of others. And even helping)))

Well, if you like to look for the meaning of life so much, then consider that this is what it is — to live in joy.

People, I wrote all this because I received a lot of questions on this topic. You better not ask me, because my views on life are very peculiar and you are unlikely to like it))) Don't be disappointed)))…

Although, to be honest, I don't care… I always have something to do. As they say, life is not enough for me to realize all my ideas and desires… But I will try))) This is My Life.

I beg you, do not forget: happiness is not in the village or the city, not in the mountains or on the plain, it is in the HEAD! Live as you want and do not compare your happiness with another. No one will understand YOUR happiness anyway))) If there were no evaluation and comparison of happiness, religions and values, there would be no wars…

With love to you, your draw #Branch"