Ferry ride from downtown Helsinki to the island Pihlajasaari It takes only 10 minutes and deposits visitors to the playground of the beach, trail and rock. But I had a different mission: to talk to the tree.
This meant it was a treatment movement that Finnish biologists advocated. Adela pajunen. Pins, she told me. Sometimes they share their worries loudly by trees or birds. Sometimes they can even sing to them.
On the coast, I went on a gravel path in search of the perfect tree. I excluded several pine trees before I found a short Black Alder. I was pleased with the rock and began to say my criticism to Alder. I was romantically involved with the person who said that he was not ready to have a relationship. Still, I told Alder. I still hoped to work well. He and I sent a voice message back and forth as they continued to contact. Alder’s leaves rusted with reactions, and I interpreted it as sympathy.
I came to Finland to find out if we could bring happiness back to the United States. Finland World Happiness Report Over the past eight years, the advantage of public policies such as trust and free education and universal health care for the Nordic welfare state and the government. According to these standards, the resident of the United States (No. 24 of the list) is actually a recipe for misery. However, FINNS is also satisfactory in a more prominent way, such as a close relationship with nature (74 %of the country is covered with forests), and visits the sauna every day every day.
Visit to FinlandTourist agencies in this country use happiness to seduce travelers. And it seems to work. Tourism is almost the maximum 5 million visitors In 2024 2 million Hosted for the second time in June 2022.Find the inner pin“Mas DJ OrchidaThe best Nordic electronic music player.
I didn’t participate in the contest, but I liked the idea. Like many other Americans, I had difficulty in unhappy after the epidemic, and sometimes I felt anxious dreams, a feeling of fear, and loneliness. So I asked for advice from happy hackers and planned a trip to Helsinki in June and tried everything.
Hackers armed me with a variety of solutions to use when traveling to the United States. Luka Balac, co -owner of zero waste restaurant zeroI gave me a list of local dishes that will be tied up with nature (with licorice ice cream and rye crust Karel Rien Pie). Lena SalmiSkateboards and vivid 71 -year -old players talked about the intense focus of diving boards. and TERO KUITUNENCeramicist, suggesting something NothingBy hand -picks read, strawberry, fish, knit. And some told me to visit the sauna.
Each of these activities contains similar goals. We work and work for the common minimalist lifestyle that depends on Earth. Happy expert and assistant professor Frank Martela AALTO UniversityOutside the Helsinki, Pins often boasts when the summer hut is not equipped with a dishwasher or running water.
“It will be almost cheating,” he said.
Nordic education
Immediately after landing in Helsinki, I Hotel Fabian I headed to WaterSide Sauna and Restaurant Loyally (It means “steam”). I expected the place to be quiet and calm with stupid music. Instead, I came to a big Finnish men’s group drinking beer in the swimming trunk.
Like Custom, I reached the short odor of a wooden firing sauna and in June between the gorgeous Baltic seawater. Research results show that this is true. There is a physical advantage in the cold flangji.But FINNS also sees activities as a mental movement. I set a 30 second goal. Because the water was so biting, everything I could think of was calculated as 30 people. Was that? I tried not to drowned and countered the cutting.
When I appeared, I overcame me as I rushed to achievement. I repeated the circuit twice, and when I left, I seemed to shine my skin, and as my heart became dark, I felt ecstasy.
But happiness came out with waves and tropes for the next few days. I hit the endorphin in a different and quiet sauna. RonaBalac is released while eating salmon soup recommended. Then I found that I was crying in the hotel room after ruining my shoes as it rained. Did I feed the marketing floey?
In the last morning, I rode a 20 -minute ferry to a solid island. Balisa AriFollow the 1.8 -mile trail to walk the comfortable forest. But when the boat popped out, I started a panic attack. “Today is a perfect day to be happy.” I read the painted wooden marks, but loneliness and isolation followed half of the world.
That night I planned to test one of DJ ORKIDEA’s happy hacking to hit the Karaoke bar. round. But I went to bed instead. As I wrote in the journal, “Sometimes happiness is hugging under the hotel bathrobes and covers.”
Nevertheless, I was optimistic that I could reproduce the happiest moments of returning home from New York, even if I had to exercise my creativity.
How hard was it?
American reality
As a result, happiness is a luxury in the United States. It is also a privilege. I found that most of New York’s sauna pass costs are over $ 60. As a freelancer reporter, I couldn’t afford steam like Pins. Many people can use saunas in their homes or apartment buildings.
But I finally found it Brooklyn It provided a reasonable deal and visited the backyard barrel sauna on Friday evening and began the bathtub and one -person cold refrigerator. It wasn’t Helsinki, but the space disappeared enough to give a calm atmosphere.
I tried shopping at Farmers’ Market because I didn’t feed my own food like FINNS, so I tried the best thing. I also purchased a pot containing basil, white flavor, tea and sage plants to become a gardener. Anna NymanPoger, who lives about 30 minutes from the Helsinki City Center, said he could once grow agricultural products and herbs on the balcony and do other city residents. “I even grew up watermelon,” she said.
My kitchen is not much sunlight, so every morning I moved a small garden to the roof. One night I drank and forgot it. Summer storms absorbed the soil. One evening, I had the basil stem so well and there was a lot of barren lumps. Everything eventually died and someone abandoned the pot.
But in general, the situation was going pretty well. I rushed to Central Park after the emotional treatment session, and one afternoon, I had a breakthrough development and found a cluster of people looking at the ground. I blinked with the asphalt. cardinal! I did not admire the bird’s red feathers. This was a victory to maintain a gift.
‘Simple’ discovery
Then at the end of July, the man I participated in sent me a text to tell me that I started meeting someone. I soon learned that he was actually married.
I tried to make SISU, a Finnish word that means patience, but for several weeks. Sometimes there was an active natural promenade for dopamine. At another time I cut the farm fixed tomato purchased for the purpose of this experiment, almost once or randomly cried. Even the sauna no longer lifted my soul.
One afternoon, I sat on the beach and wondered why nature didn’t feel better. I missed the point of content that all hackers said, so that they were so stupid to find the time and money of happiness and money. Pajunen said, “It’s simple.” “This is the key to FINNS providing another world.”
Saturday, I was wearing clothes and forced to walk my dog at Central Park. We walked near the zoo and greeted Europe Linden and Northern Red Oak. Immediately I felt better. But before we moved, I had a small but comfortable consciousness I developed. I heard and thanked the trees.
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