Everyone knows that time spent in joy and pleasure passes unnoticed and very quickly. But painful expectation or hard work, on the contrary, stretches endlessly, and it seems that there will never be an end to it. Writers, prose writers and poets formulated this idea in different ways and many times. Scientists also have their own opinions on this issue.
Poets about time
The German poet Johann Schiller was one of those who said: "Happy hours do not watch." He expressed his idea, however, in a slightly different way. In the drama “Piccolomini”, written by him in 1800, there is a phrase that in a free translation reads as follows: “For those who are happy, the beat of the clock is not heard.”
“Stop, a moment, you are beautiful!” - in these lines Goethe hears regret that all good things in life pass too quickly, and at the same time, a passionate desire is expressed to expand the time boundaries of this joyful state.
What did the one who said: “Happy hours do not watch” wanted to express? The elusiveness of happiness, the inability to feel it instantly, and only his subsequent understanding always worried both philosophers and ordinary people reflecting on life. “Happiness is what used to be,” many people think. “I remember, and I understand that it was then that I was happy,” others say. And everyone agrees that "good, but not enough ..."
Griboedov and his aphorisms
To the question of who said: “Happy hours are not observed,” there is a definite answer. This is Griboedov’s Sophia from the comedy “Woe from Wit”, which saw the light in 1824.
In modern Russian, there are many proverbs and sayings borrowed from literary works. They are so widespread that their use has not shown evidence of well-readiness for a long time. Not everyone who says the words “I would be glad to serve, to be sick of sickness,” certainly read the immortal comedy and knows what Chatsky said. The same applies to the expression "happy hours do not watch." Griboedov wrote aphoristically, he became the author of many popular phrases. Only four words, one of which is an excuse, convey a deep philosophical thought. For anyone who understands literature, it is clear that the ability to convey in a concise form a complex picture of being is a sign of high art, and sometimes the genius of the author.
Alexander Sergeyevich Griboedov was a versatile person. A poet, composer and diplomat, he passed away under tragic circumstances, defending the interests of his homeland. He was only 34 years old. The poem “Woe from Wit” and the Griboedovskiy Waltz entered the treasury of Russian culture forever.
Einstein, love, clock and pan
Scientists are also not indifferent to the issue of time. One of those who said, “Happy hours are not observed,” was none other than Albert Einstein. He generally believed that if a researcher cannot explain the essence of his work to a five-year-old child in five minutes, then he can safely be called a charlatan. When a correspondent who did not understand physics asked Einstein what “relativity of time” means, he found a figurative example. If a young man is talking with a girl dear to his heart, then for him many hours will seem at once. But if the same young man is seated on a hot frying pan, then every second for him will be equivalent to a century. Here is such an interpretation given to the phrase “happy hours are not observed” by the author of the theory of relativity.