Lev. Tolstoy once said, "Faith is life."
Life is long, we spend our whole lives to experience the four seasons of life, not only need to eat, not only need material, but also some supreme spiritual pursuits, otherwise, life is too bland.
Often people lament "loneliness and emptiness and coldness" all day long, in fact, the source of emptiness is just not to find the "vitality" in their own lives, life is just life, and life without vitality, such as a pool of backwater.
More and more people are constantly caught up in a depressed mindset, and more data show that 54 million people in our country suffer from depression and are experiencing their mental crisis.
Hermann Hesse is a famous German writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946, and his book "Steppenwolf" provides us with an interpretation of the spiritual crisis that more people are trapped in. After reading it, it is a matter of contemplation.
First, don't isolate yourself
Harrell, the protagonist of the book "Steppenwolf", is actually based on the author Herman Hesse himself, in middle age Herman suffered from rheumatism and sciatica, divorced from his second wife, and the double pain of body and spirit brought a lot of impact to his life, all of which made him depressed and neurasthenic to the extreme.
Herman was in infinite pain, but he was a very responsible writer, and in the face of great physical and mental pain, he insisted on writing the book Steppenwolf.
In Hermann Hesse's view, a person should not isolate himself too much, if he completely isolates himself and does not communicate with the world, he can only expand his mental crisis, and his depression tendency will become more and more aggravated.
Under Hermann Hesse's pen, Harrell, the protagonist of Steppenwolf, is a paradoxical middle-aged artist. His contradictions are difficult for ordinary people to understand:
He seems to be an elegant man, admiring works of art, keen to learn, and mediocre. He was cultured, cultivated, had a sense of justice, and was a rare gentleman.
At the same time, he is very negative, his life is irregular, his personality is also moody, and his heart desires violence and so on.
Harrell's personality is split, and he himself is fully aware of his inner entanglements, as he has come to the conclusion of his own thinking, because he wants to escape from some things in this society that he is not accustomed to, so he completely isolates himself.
However, as each of us understands, there is not only a dark side in life that you can't escape, but there is also a sunny side, don't just see the dark, don't see the good. Life is not something you want to escape. It is not advisable for people of social terror, like Harrell, to escape from reality after experiencing setbacks.
Second, self-healing
Goethe once said, "In times of crisis, only oneself can save oneself." ”
No one's life will be a smooth road, there will always be wind and rain and haze, there will always be all kinds of irritable and depressing things, do not drill the horns of the bull, learn to self-enlightenment, this is the most important.
Hermann Hesse's Harrell felt that his life was meaningless and even lost the confidence to live, and his self-healing method was to "imagine" two friends: Hermina and Pablo.
Hermina is the equivalent of a confidant, and when Harrell wants to commit suicide, Hermina asks Harrell to learn to dance to help him out of his predicament. But Harrell found that no matter how hard he danced, he still couldn't meditate, but he understood, and Hermina pulled him back from the line of death.
Pablo's method was to guide Harrell to music, so Harrell began to listen to piano music on his lonely nights, and while enjoying the music, Harrell felt that he was not so miserable, and the music allowed him to find peace and tranquility, no longer so depressed.
Through the help of his two imaginary friends, Harrell finally found his own method, although he was once depressed and mentally difficult for a long time, but he found a good psychological hint for himself: there is no dead end at any time, as long as he finds a way to relieve it, depression and stress can be alleviated, that is, self-healing is very important.
Third, faith is a ray of light
Tagore once said: "Faith is a bird, and when the dawn is still dark, it touches the dawn and praises." ”
Hermann Hesse's Harrell, after healing himself, began to pursue his faith. He fantasized about his communication with the music master Mozart, the poet Goethe, and although it was imaginary, he imagined himself talking to them, discussing music, but also discussing poetry, talking about life.
In this intercourse, Harrell heard Goethe say to him: "Mankind should resolutely fight against death, which is the motivation for us to live." ”
Harrell, the protagonist of "Steppenwolf", finally understands how wrong he was before, always thinking about death or something, what is the point? What's the big deal about not being able to live well? He began to completely change himself, began to get out of his depression, try to socialize, go dancing, go to drama, listen to music, to discover the beauty of the world, and abandon the dark perspective that had been there before.
In this way, he not only got rid of depression, but also lived more and more tastefully, and the whole person became younger and younger.
In the past 11 years, Teacher Zhang Guimei, a teacher who "touched China 2020", has tirelessly helped generations of mountain students to get out of the mountains through reading. She could have had better conditions, she could have avoided teaching in the mountains, but she went without hesitation.
This passage she said brought countless people to tears:
Some people say I love my job and dedicate myself, some people say I am crazy, and some people say that I am for honor. Some people do not understand that a person is sick, but he can bear more than normal people, and what supports me is the original intention and mission of the Communist Party members, so that when I face this hot land, I am not ashamed.
Teacher Zhang is a person with light in her heart, and her faith makes her life full of highlights.
Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf tells us that life is not just honey, but also hardships, and at any time, do not give up the pursuit of the good, when the mood is low, find more interesting things to do, find your own faith, this is more important than anything.
Only faith can make a person full of infinite vitality.
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