01
Su Shi has a saying: "The great river goes to the east, the waves are exhausted, and the characters of the ages are flowing." ”
The river gushes to the east, everything will be vicissitudes, things are not people. The so-called celebrities and magis have long become the smoke and dust of history and have dissipated.
In this world, although there are many things that are unfair, there is one thing that is fair, that is, "dissipate". Whoever you are, you can't live forever, you can only go to the empty building after a few decades.
After Qin Shi Huang unified the Six Kingdoms, he wanted to live forever and live forever. Therefore, he sent people everywhere to find immortal medicine, hoping to live a life with heaven. However, Qin Shi Huang left at the age of 49.
Tang Taizong Li Shimin opened the prosperity of the rule of Zhenguan and became the Heavenly Khan of the Eight Directions. In his later years, he hoped that he could live forever and seek out Taoist practitioners to practice Dan. However, he still did not live to be 52 years old.
These people are veritable emperors on earth, emperors of the ages, but he still can't take away everything he has. why? Because everything in the world is unfair, only death is the most just.
People live one life, and the grass grows in autumn. We who have flesh and blood can only disappear in the rain and wind, leaving nothing behind. Perhaps, our last habitat is just a small box.
Everything is particularly realistic.
02
An old man sighed that the ultimate result of a person's life is nothing more than "a white busy".
Before Lao Zhang retired, he was the vice president of a certain enterprise, anyway, he was particularly stylish, drove a luxury car, lived in a mansion, and also had a luxurious life to the extreme.
However, after Lao Zhang retired, his position as vice president was quickly replaced. And he himself felt that his previous connections had disappeared, and even his subordinates pretended not to know him.
Once, he wanted to go back to the business to visit his subordinates and bring them some gifts. Who knows, he was stopped by the security guard, and he couldn't even enter the door of the enterprise.
At this time, Lao Zhang was particularly angry, I used to be the vice president of the hall, why should I suffer such humiliation now?
Therefore, he still broke in and wanted to explain the situation to the current vice president. He thought to himself that most of the executives who have climbed to high positions today are brought out by themselves, believing that they will not go against their will.
As everyone knows, everything is not as simple as Lao Zhang thought. The so-called "wall fell and everyone pushed, and the tree fell and scattered." "You've retired, and who cares about you, an ordinary person?"
Later, Lao Zhang was still successfully invited out.
Back at home, he has been sullen and unhappy, and told his wife that he used to take such care of them, why would they turn their faces and not recognize people? Don't you know how to be grateful?
03
After listening to Lao Zhang's words, my wife sighed, your past prestige was a matter of the past, and you are now just a bad old man, who will listen to you? We still need to be realistic.
At that moment, Lao Zhang completely understood that the connections he had built in the past and what he had done in the position of vice president had disappeared with his retirement.
Today, Lao Zhang is 70 years old, has long lived into the appearance of an ordinary old man, and the arrogance of the former vice president has long ceased to exist. And he also saw through that people live for a lifetime, but they are just busy in vain.
No matter how high your position is, when you leave that position, everything will be a new beginning.
Just like Lao Zhang, when he was the vice president of the company, there was still a large group of people to seduce him, and even regarded him as a high example. And after he retired, those who snuggled him disappeared at once.
This reminds me of a saying that when you have money, I find that there are good people around me. And when I didn't have money, I found that I was surrounded by bad people, and I didn't even have a little human temperature.
When people live, they must go through two processes: high light and low. However, no matter what we have experienced, the result we will face in the end is nothing more than "white busyness".
Busy before and after busy, or busy in vain. Everything, very realistic.
04
A person lives for one lifetime, and does not last forever.
Shi Chong, of the Jin Dynasty, whose wealth could buy Chang'an and Luoyang, was truly the richest man in the world. And he also thought that his wealth could be passed on forever, but in fact, everything was just delusional.
No matter how rich Shi Chong was, he did not live to be 52 years old. It can be said that he has endless wealth, but all he can enjoy is nothing more than a single thing, nothing at all.
Han Xin of the Han Dynasty, the representative figure of the war-seeking faction, was called Bing Xian by the people of the time, and could be described as a great figure who has been flowing through the ages. However, he still ended up cooking a rabbit, and his past achievements and power became a void.
No wonder Qiu Chuji sighed, Shi Chong's wealth of a thousand years, Han Xinkong became a ten-faced conspiracy.
In fact, the experience of the ancients is also our experience. If they can't be eternal, then we still can't be eternal. Because time and death are fair.
Take the rich and the poor, what is the biggest difference between them? It is that the life enjoyed is different. However, their final result is the same, that is, "busy in vain".
No matter how rich a person is, he cannot escape the fate of returning; no matter how powerful he is, he cannot escape the result of silence; no matter how high the prince and general, he will eventually become a dry bone in the grave.
Yang Shen said it well, how many things in ancient and modern times are in the midst of laughter.
Maybe today we are talking about the ancients, and many years later, we will become the ancients, and future generations will also talk about us. That's all.
Wen/Shushan has deer