"She is looking through pink sunglasses."

This phrase, "she (or he) is looking through pink sunglasses," is widely used in the mother country, Russia. The phrase itself brings in a good moral, but it also sheds light upon the attitudes of Russians towards their own lives. The phrase is said when someone is being too positive, too hopeful, or too carefree. They are seeing a pink world that is only of mirth. They look at everything going on around them, and they simply ignore the bad things and not caring about them. They aren't taking time to fix problems around them, assuming that others will fix the issue, either directly or indirectly.

In Russia, however, no one can look through pink sunglasses and live happily. No one can rely on luck alone for everything to be all right. Hard work must be done in order to achieve happiness. One must be diligent, conscientious, and goal-oriented in order to succeed. Problems must be recognized so that they can be fixed. When you look through pink sunglasses, you see no problems. If you don't see problems, you will face severe consequences.

All of us no someone like this, someone who "dances through life." We all no someone that didn't care about anything when they were younger, and then it came back to bite them in the bite, either physically, mentally, or socially. If someone just eats whatever they want to when they're young, they will be mad at themselves five, ten years later. Also, if someone doesn't work hard in school, they will soon realize that this was a wrong choice. No one can just walk through life; it takes hard work, even if you have lots of money. Let's say you were born into a well-off family. Although you can just use power and money to achieve things, all things in life do not have a pricetag, such as the love of friends and family.

Seeing through pink sunglasses can often be dangerous to yourself and the people who you influence. Although a president must be positive, he cannot look through pink sunglasses because he would bring no change to the society that he or she controls. A father cannot look through pink sunglasses because he would bring in no money for the family as a result of his poor working style. A schoolgirl cannot look through pink sunglasses, although she might have them, because she will not get a good education.

I hope you understand that this Russian phrase does not only deal with Russians. It should be a moral that everyone knows and lives by. Russia cannot look pink, but most importantly, the world cannot look pink.