“Someone ought to stand with a hammer at the door of every happy contented man, continually banging on it to remind him that there are unhappy people around and that however happy he may be at the time, sooner or later life will show him its claws and disaster will overtake him in the form of illness, poverty, bereavement and there will be no one to hear or see him . But there isn’t anyone holding a hammer, so our happy man goes his own sweet way and is only ruffled by life’s trivial cares as an aspen is ruffled by the breeze. All’s well as far as he’s concerned.”
Anton Chekov, “Gooseberries”, 1898.
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