Roosevelt, who was re-elected to the united states for four consecutive terms, was stolen from his home when he was young, and his friend wrote to him to express his concern and condolences after learning about this matter, and Roosevelt wrote a letter back to his friend, and the content of the letter was as follows: Thank you for your concern, my dear friend, first of all, the thief stole only some of my belongings, not all of them; then, he just stole my things, did not hurt my people, and finally and most importantly, when the thief was him, not me.
We should have no objection to the first two points in his reply, so why should we say that it was he, not me, who was the thief?
We always can't avoid encountering difficulties in life, sudden accidents that catch us off guard, the sudden death of relatives, various illnesses, etc. What do we do in the moment when these accidents come?
Scientific research has found that when the pressure on people is too great, our cerebral cortex will secrete cortisol, cortisol down to the amygdala, when the amygdala dominates us, we will do two things: resistance and escape, but here the resistance, is a kind of resistance without brain thinking, such as in the face of huge medical expenses in the hospital he chose to rob, and escape is to throw away all responsibility, disappear without a trace.
The late famous actor Wu Mengda, in the early years because he starred in several classic TV series fame and fortune, after having fame and fortune, Uncle Da chose not to immerse himself in his own duties, but gambled around, and finally had to borrow money from his friend Zhou Runfa because of the loan shark, but did not want Zhou Runfa to lend money to him, uncle Da, who was full of discouragement, thought about dying, but in the end did not do so, and the pain he chose to reinvigorate, only to achieve glory.
The Celestial Bodhisattva once said: If there is a way to solve a problem, there is no need to worry, and if there is no way to solve it, it is useless to worry. No matter what kind of situation we encounter, there will be no hope, if it is really a desperate situation, then we choose to greet that moment in peace, just like in the Nazi concentration camps, some Jews who were sent to the execution ground said to the Nazi soldiers: I forgive you, child, you do not know what you are doing. "That's the power of choice.