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Judging from the trajectory of biological development over hundreds of millions of years, all living things will eventually pass away. What we can see is that the stars are infinite, the sun is still the same, but life has developed for trillions of years.
Take the history of human civilization for tens of thousands of years, it is only a slight trace in the universe, and it is not even comparable to the moment of cosmic development.
In this regard, philosophers have asked the ultimate philosophical question - what is man coming into this world for?
Since everyone has a short life span and the result can only be to return, then they came into this world just to endure a grind and then pass away with time?
In the face of this already fruitful life, the ancient Greek thinker Aristotle believed that the ultimate value of life lies in the ability to awaken and think.
The Chinese thinker Lao Tzu felt that the law of man, the law of the earth, the law of heaven, the way of heaven, and the law of nature.
Shakyamuni in India felt that life and death, life and death, life and death, like a wheel of fire.
In fact, no matter which one's statement represents, it is a kind of thinking and understanding of life. In other words, there are hundreds of millions of people in this world, there are as many different values as there are in life.
You and I are in a vast history, experiencing changes in the times and the development of civilization, in a hurry of only a hundred years.
02
Different thoughts have different lives.
Some historians feel that if you want to understand the meaning of life, you only need to read the history and understand.
Opening the history of human development and civilization, we will find that there are countless celebrities and sages who have been passed down through the ages, and there are countless ordinary people who have become unrecorded sentient beings. Today, they are long gone, and their results are ours.
Some astronomers feel that to understand the meaning of life, you only need to look up at the stars to understand.
The changes in the nebulae between the universes, the development and extinction of a planet, all take hundreds of millions of years. Compared with the lifespan of living things, they are simply small. The more people look up at the stars, the more they find their personal smallness.
Some sociologists feel that to understand the meaning of life, we only need to look at the trajectory of the development of social civilization.
When humans were first born, the vast majority of them were based on tribes. Today's society, in short, is a huge tribe. Every generation is living a similar life, just changing the skin and environment.
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Why can't everyone's ideas be unified? Because they look at different angles, then they come up with different views.
Just like some people like to eat grains, some people like to eat mountain treasures and seafood, and they have different assets and concepts, then their choices are different. All choices are free.
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Man will eventually leave, so what is the value of his coming into this world?
Since everyone thinks differently, we may wish to think about the question, what is the value of human beings born in this world?
The value here, we divide it from the crowd, you can.
Rich people feel that the value of people coming to this world is to create their own careers, live a luxurious life, or leave a name in history to prove that they have come to this world.
Middle-level people feel that people come to this world in order to realize their dreams, have a car and a house in a big city, and then march to the level of people and realize the leap of class.
Others will feel that people come to this world to study well, work well, live well, make good money, and then get married and have children...
Different levels, what we pursue is different. Of course, there is no good or bad in this, in front of the entire universe, whether it is rich or powerful, it is actually small and equal.
In the words of a thinker, every man comes into this world with his mission. When you've done your mission, you'll have to leave. Nothing was too much trouble.
Different people pursue different lives, which is the root of the colorful world.
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The value of a person's life may only be to "live".
If I have to say that there is any value in life, I think that Yu Hua's "living for the sake of living itself, not for living for anything other than living" is the true portrayal.
Living for the sake of "living" sounds contradictory, but it is not contradictory.
If human beings want to survive, they have to compete for resources. Rich people can have more resources, while people without money have fewer resources. However, these rich and wealthy people, their goal is to "live."
Wolves want to eat sheep in order to "live." And the sheep escape the wolves, but also to "live". Everyone is trying to "live", but they do it in different ways.
In ancient times, the princes and generals pursued fame and fortune and qingshi left their names. Ordinary people in ancient times, what they pursued, was just to eat and wear warmly, plain and indifferent for a lifetime. In the end, it's all a wisp of green smoke, not much different.
Any creature that comes into this world knows if this is their wish or not. But all we know is that the moment these creatures are born, they will have to compete to "survive to old age" until the day they return.
Day and night are still changing, the Milky Way is still brilliant, the human world has long been changeable, and everything will eventually become a passing cloud. And living is the eternal truth.
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