Wen 〡范力今
Source: Pin Reading, No. 2, 2022
Life, the art of regret
Some people call photography "the art of regret.". Press the shutter and the picture will freeze in an instant.
Anything that freezes the frame is often accompanied by regret.
Isn't a person's life also the art of regret?
It can be said that life is the highest art of all art. And it is a regret after a regret, a freeze frame after a freeze frame, and finally with the greatest regret - death, forever frozen.
Encountering ups and downs, or failing ideals, even if it is a small dissatisfaction, will leave people with regrets. On the contrary, there will be regrets when you succeed, and even if you are very successful, you may be accompanied by regrets.
Perhaps it is precisely because there are regrets, there are all kinds of regrets, there are regrets that must end with death, life is absolutely precious, absolutely beautiful, absolutely artistic!
Mistakes coexist with you
Whenever you do something, you make mistakes. As long as you live, you will make mistakes. A person's life is a process of coexisting with mistakes.
Can we say that everyone is equal in the face of mistakes? Whether it is a big person or a small person, it is inevitable that mistakes will be made. A farmer's mistake may lead to a poor harvest on his own farmland, but if a big person makes a mistake, the impact may affect thousands of people.
Once you make a mistake, you may repeat it. Even if you can eat a lot of wisdom, mistakes may appear in different ways and in different forms. Even if it is a success, it will be mixed with mistakes and regrets.
But you can't just stop doing things because you can make mistakes, and you can't live because you can make mistakes. At the same time, we should not be at ease with or even tolerate mistakes because we will make mistakes. Facing up to mistakes, understanding mistakes, correcting mistakes, and reducing mistakes should be the right way to deal with the world.
Grab the light that belongs to you
When I was in college, in an English class, the beautiful female teacher wrote a line of English text on the blackboard and asked everyone what they were writing. Just when everyone was inexplicable and seemed to understand, the female teacher read it triumphantly in English, and then said loudly in Chinese: "Pursue every ray of light in life!" In an instant, the students laughed.
It was a memorable one and is still fresh in my memory.
This sentence can very touch the young heart. When I was young, I felt that everything could be mastered, and the stage was as big as the heart was. It is not until you live to a certain age that you understand that time is limited, your ability is limited, and you can't pursue every ray of light in your life. Moreover, you chase after every ray of light, and if you lose sight of one or the other, you may not be able to catch a single ray of light.
There is a story of "monkey climbing poles". A monkey will climb when it sees a pole, one will climb this, one will climb that, but it will not climb to the head. Another monkey identified a pole, climbed all the way to the head, and finally picked the fruit.
In life, xiaguang appears from time to time, temptation exists everywhere, and it is of course good to pursue a few more xiaguang. The most realistic thing is to see clearly the path or rays of light that belong to you, pursue and grasp it.
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