Sunday, March 2, 2014

The Happy Valley by Samuel Johnson

My Happy Valley.













It seems to be happy to me that this valley is happy place to live because of its safety position and its convenient supplies. The Valley is "surrounded by every side by mountains, of which the summits overhang the middle part. The only passage, by which it could be entered, was a cavern that passed under a rock, of which it has long been disputed whether it was the work of nature or of human industry". There are rivulets on every side of the mountains  to form a big lake with "fish of every species". Trees with delicious fruits cover sides of the mountains as well. Even the animals can be safe from their predators in the valley. "The valley, wide and fruitful, supplied its inhabitants with necessaries of life. The princess lives in the valley can be entertained everyday with songs.
However it is totally isolated from the outside people. It is a common sense that we can appreciate what we have if we do not contribute to create or build it. It is like that we don not know what is really happiness if we have not experienced sadness or disappointed moment.

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