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In "A Generation of Grandmasters", Ip Man once lamented that I learned boxing at the age of seven, and before forty, I had never seen a mountain. The first time I encountered it, I found that the most difficult thing to cross was life.
What defeats a person is not something, someone, but these two words - life.
What is "life"? As the name suggests, it is the pursuit of survival and survival. We can only live better if we survive. However, the vast majority of people can only survive, so why live better?
Survival is to let people earn money, have a room to live in, have food to eat, have a bed to sleep, and at least ensure that they can survive safely and steadily.
To live better is to pursue a higher level of spiritual enjoyment on the basis of materials. Such spiritual enjoyment can be career success, self-esteem, or achievement satisfaction.
However, how many people can do the word "life" well?
There is a saying that "no one asks under the heartache, and the pain in the face is painful." ”
The bitterness hidden deep in the heart, in fact, no one can know, let alone no one can feel it. And happiness is on the face, but pain is on the body. This is the norm of helpless life.
For life, I believe you and I will feel a lot.
02
"Talking to him for half an hour, I almost had a mental breakdown."
Some time ago, a post-70s generation talked to me about some issues, which impressed me.
He asked me, "If you can choose, what kind of person do you want to be in the next life?" ”
I replied, "First of all, I don't know if there's a lifetime. Secondly, even if there is, it is better to go with the flow, and everything is not up to me to decide anyway. ”
He continued to ask: "The human world is an assembly line, and you and I are just products in it." These products, when they have no value, will be abandoned, do you think such a life is still valuable? ”
I thought about the question for a while and then didn't answer.
Before I could say anything, he continued: "I remember when I was young, we went out to work in society with great ambition. Now that he is old, he has been abandoned by the world. Is such a life really fair? ”
I replied to him: "Life is inherently unfair, others are born in rich families, he was born in poor families, and the latter is doomed to fail to reach the height of the former in his lifetime." ”
He sighed: "If one day, your child returns to a life similar to yours, do you think he has come into this world to be valuable?" ”
I shook my head and said, "To be able to experience something is already valuable." At least, we only live for the sake of living, so how can we change the world? Everything, do yourself on it. ”
03
Finally, he asked me a question: "Ordinary people study hard, struggle hard, and finally become social animals under others, and are bound for a lifetime. ”
After hearing his question, I was also a little touched. Because I know that, no matter what I say, this is an unchangeable reality. No matter how hard you work or how diligent you are, you may just become a hit worker under your boss.
I responded to him this way: "The human world is a pyramid, destined to be a small number of rich people and a large number of people without money. At least, in the presence of Death, everything is fair. ”
In fact, the problems discussed by the above-mentioned post-70s are particularly in line with reality. Can you say he's not right? It may seem negative, but the view inside is very real. You know, in the face of the cruel reality, we can't change, we can only accept.
In this regard, I believe many people will say that the above-mentioned post-70s is definitely an unsuccessful loser. On the contrary, he is a native of Guangzhou, with three or four properties and two luxury cars.
However, the older he got, the more he doubted everything about reality, and even lamented his own powerlessness.
Perhaps, the older people are, the more they will feel that they are particularly small, even if they have money, they cannot change the future, let alone change the reality.
For this kind of excessively negative thinking, it can only be said that this is a common disease of modern people.
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We may wish to think about the question, at the end of life, what is it?
In fact, the end of life is only three words, that is, "an emptiness". As long as it is a person, as long as it is a creature, as long as it is everything in the world, it cannot escape a void result.
Thinking of this, I believe that some people will become indifferent, and some people will become miserable.
Most of the people who have become indifferent have experienced the beatings of life, know the misfortunes of the world, and understand the true meaning of life.
And the people who become miserable are often rich people. In their eyes, why do they have to be empty? Can't life in the present be preserved forever?
The above-mentioned post-70s, although he has a net worth of tens of millions, he is still worried that his money will dissipate and his descendants will become poor.
Do you feel normal about such an idea? Very normal. At the very least, human beings are greedy, and no one willingly gives up everything that belongs to them. Just think, when you have the whole world, will you give up the world?
However, whether we are willing to give up or not, we will eventually face the result of "a void".
The so-called "when sleeping until the second or third change, all the merits and names become illusions." I think that a hundred years later, no less than a few will become ancients. ”
Together, it will pass; everything will disappear. That's all.
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