Text: Flipping through the books in his spare time
"Romance is wasting time eating slowly, wasting time drinking tea slowly, wasting time walking slowly, wasting time slowly getting old."
——Lin Qingxuan, "The Taste of the World is Qing Huan"
Looking at a person's lifestyle, you can look at how he treats and uses time.
Resisting the pressure and urging of external rhythms, prolonging time into a leisurely life interest, it is called romance.
How to use one's time well and where to devote one's time reflects one's choice. Unfortunately, most people don't have many options. The pressures of life are like a natural sieve that pushes us to the extreme of efficiency.
The name of this sieve is: competition.
Darwin's Theory of Evolution argues that competition in nature allows organisms to survive the fittest, which is the root cause of species replacement and biological evolution. When competition philosophically means "so is the way of heaven," people accept this view.
However, blindly advocating competition, the pressure on people's bodies and minds is increasing, and gradually deviates from moderation, and many psychological problems arise from this.
From this point of view, only talking about competition and efficiency suppresses the human mind, and what is even more suffocating is that people think it should be so, and the jungle rules of the animal kingdom are still applied to human society.
The meaning of romance has a certain sense of resistance in such an environment. It is like opposing "competition" and advocating "non-violent non-cooperation".
"Leisurely your own time." It's basically like a prescription for people who are overwhelmed by competition.
We certainly can't give up competition and make a living in society. But just as people are swimming, people with good water quality always have to surface to breathe.
Struggling to hit the water is for life, and the breathing and inhaling of Tuna is to use your leisure time.
A tea and a meal, a line and a bed, can reach a certain kind of romance. For those of us who are accustomed to "time is life", we really need a deliberate, a little care.
If you can nourish the body and mind, deliberate and careful romance, why not?
The beauty of words penetrates the literal and reaches the heart. "Flip the book in your spare time" Thank you for reading.
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