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The philosopher Nietzsche once said:
"Man, animal man, has no meaning at all. His presence on Earth has no purpose at all: 'What the hell is man?' This is a question with no answer. There is a lack of will for man and the earth; behind every great human destiny reverberates an even louder 'futility' that acts as a suppressor! ”
In these words, we can draw three points: first, life has no meaning; second, we are always going with the flow, with no purpose in living; and finally, most people's lives can only be in vain.
These three views are actually unacceptable. Many people will say that existence is value, how can it be meaningless?
In fact, what Nietzsche saw was not the meaning of life overnight, but the long-term value of life. Just think, the vast majority of people spend this life in a confused way, isn't it really a wasted life?
People come to this world not only to experience, but also to discover the value of their lives in the process of experience. People who think in this way can really explore their own life path.
There are too many people in this world, and there are many different lives as there are people. In this way, do not go with the flow, find your own positioning, in order to smooth the trajectory of the development of fate.
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Let's start by asking the question, why did Nietzsche feel that life had no meaning?
First of all, man, that is, the higher animals with flesh and blood, the society composed of people, is the advanced jungle world, generation after generation of competition, generation after generation of replacement, and finally converged into the current civilization.
However, all people inevitably face a result - disappearing into the smoke and clouds of history, annihilating in the long river of time, even civilization, there will be a day of demise.
Therefore, for the vast and vast universe, from the moment of the Big Bang, destruction and demise are the final result.
Secondly, most people can't find their own direction in life. That is, they all live a cookie-cutter life and then end up in the same destination.
Remembering such a sentence, we all led the script that did not belong to us, stepped on the stage that did not belong to us, and spent this worthless time. In the end, I found that my life had passed, and it was like living in vain.
Just imagine, what others do, we do, how others live, how we live, then we will not become a unified production of robots?
Only by living with flesh and blood and their own thoughts can we have a unique and own life. On the contrary, if we are confused and confused for a lifetime, then we really live in vain.
03
When it comes to the "cookie-cutter" life, in fact, we may wish to think about the experience of modern people.
When we read the story of "shepherding babies" before, we all laughed at the sheep herding babies for not thinking, only knowing how to let generations of children and grandchildren come to herd sheep and live exactly the same life, which is a dead cycle.
However, how can we who laugh at the sheep herding baby not live a "dead cycle" like life?
Generally speaking, modern people's life has only these 7 stages:
In his early years, he was placed in school - after graduation, he lived a 996 social animal life - bought a car and a house, became a house slave for 20 to 30 years - got married and had children, started a family - lost between the ages of 35 and 45 - lived for others, did not live for himself - retired and aged.
Let's think about it, can modern people get rid of these 7 stages?
It's a shame to say that no matter how much we struggle, it's impossible to get out of these 7 stages. Because we are all people in the "siege", we naturally live the same life.
"The people inside the city want to run out, and the people outside the city want to rush in." These words are the portrayal of the lives of countless people.
The so-called "first reading does not know the meaning of the book, by the old age has become a person in the book." ”
If people are all the same, don't they live in nietzsche's "futility"?
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When people live a lifetime, they must make their lives different.
Why can modern people only have a "similar" life? Because they are all in the chess game, they can't break through this "chess game" at all, so why talk about living meaningfully?
The "chess game" mentioned here is nothing more than one word - money.
Young people study hard, not for their own ideals, but for money. Ordinary people overdraft their bodies, have been living in 996, rather face the risk of sudden death, but still for money. Isn't this a kind of sadness?
Man did not come into this world to become a money-making machine.
Just imagine, from the age of 25 to earn money, until the age of 60, or 65 years old, after retirement did not even enjoy a few days of good days, because of the body's chronic disease attack and left, then we have not lived for ourselves in this life?
There is such a 38-year-old "quasi-middle-aged man", graduated from a prestigious university graduate school, after 30 years of mortgage, he has been living a 007 money-making life, and there is no day off for a month. In the end, he collapsed on the post and left.
It is undeniable that he has the opportunity to make more money, but he has not lived for himself, simply becoming a "machine", then living to the end, is not it "futile"?
I liked Maugham's words that the moon was a lofty and unattainable dream, and that sixpence had to earn a humble income to survive. How many people just timidly look up at the moon and continue to chase the sixpence they depend on?
I only hope that you and I can chase the "moon" in our hearts, and don't live like a robot with your head down!
Wen/Shushan has deer