01
Life is like a train, and the moment it starts, it can't stop. On this train, you and I are both passengers with "one-way tickets", and when we arrive at the station, we have to get off the train, and when we get to the point, we have to leave.
Perhaps, short and lamentable, is the result of what man cannot get rid of in this life.
I remembered a poem by Yang Shen: "The water rolling in the east of the Yangtze River, the waves exhaust the heroes." Success or failure turns empty. The green mountains are still there, and the sunset is red a few degrees. ”
The great rivers are constantly flowing, the sun, moon and stars are constantly rotating, and they are still the same as before. Only people are developing from generation to generation, old and new, leaving behind countless vicissitudes of the world.
For a life that passes quietly in the blink of an eye, what is worth attaching to? I think it should be the word "companionship".
For example, children accompany us to old age, wives and us hand in hand to the end of life, old friends hug each other... The warmest thing in the world is that when we are old, we can still find a little dependence.
Su Shi said: "The beard of mourning my life, this envy of the infinity of the Yangtze River." ”
A short life has its own way of life. You and I will eventually understand that there are only these four things that accompany us to the end of our lives.
02
The only thing that accompanies us to the end of life is "money".
First of all, when it comes to money, I believe that many people will be chilled, money is a common thing, why do we have to care about money? Speaking of old age, can't you put down this red dust thing?
Money is something that everyone likes. The reason why we hate it is because we feel that "it" is too realistic, cold, and not at all comparable to the affection of our families.
We might as well ask ourselves, is this money really cold?
There is a saying that money is particularly cold on the surface, but it is more loyal than everyone else. Even our children have the day of betrayal. Only money guards you and my life.
As long as people are alive, they need money to accompany them. It can make the relationship between the family more harmonious, but also make the children more filial to their parents, and even make the second half of our lives more stable and less embarrassing.
The greatest helplessness of man's life is not that his life expectancy is limited, but that he has no money and can only live humbly, without any dignity at all. Therefore, valuing money is not a beggar, but a kind of rationality.
03
The only thing that accompanies us to the end of life is "conscience".
Professor Zeng Shiqiang said in his speech that people will face their own "judgment" in the end.
The "self-judgment" we are referring to here is actually our re-examination of our conscience. See if you have done anything in this life that is bright and upright, that you have done properly, that you have sat upright, and that you have done anything that goes against your conscience.
Some people always do something against their conscience in the first half of their lives, so in their old age, they will definitely live uneasy. Especially when they think back on what they have done, their hearts will be faintly painful.
Some people always do good deeds and accumulate virtue, have their own rules, even if they are not afraid of "ghosts knocking on the door in the middle of the night". People like this are worthy of their conscience, so they can feel happiness for the rest of their lives, even if they live ordinary.
Moreover, when people are old and look back on half their lives, they will no longer think of any fame and fortune, nor will they think of any status and power. All we can think of is what we have done, and it does not meet the standards of being a human being.
It can be said that conscience is like another shadow of us, accompanying us to the end of life. We must not fail to live up to this.
04
What accompanies us to the end of life is only "indifference".
Cao Xueqin wrote in "Good Song": "The world knows that the gods and immortals are good, but the name of merit cannot be forgotten!" Where will the past and the present meet? A pile of grass was gone. ”
Everyone thinks that living like a god is the best. However, we can only forget the name. He had thought that the princes and generals of the past and the present had long become the white bones in the dry grass, so what could be left?
There are many things that life does not bring, death does not bring, we do not need to be too entangled. When people are old, it is enough to maintain an "indifferent" heart.
In this regard, some people will say, if we want to live in an indifferent appearance, then why should we pay attention to money? Isn't that contradictory?
In fact, there is no contradiction between valuing money and living "indifferently". People need money to survive. And we don't have to be too greedy, just enough money. This is the attitude of "light as smoke, contentment and happiness".
05
The only thing that accompanies us to the end of life is "a lifetime experience.".
All our lives, we have been thinking about a question: What is the meaning of human life?
Yu Hua once made the idea that people live for the sake of being alive itself, not for anything other than being alive.
There are also people who believe that after a lifetime, write the picture of life, whether it is good or not, do not leave regrets.
In fact, no matter what the outcome of life is, we don't have to think so much, it's all empty. And the process of being alive is the most important. You know, you and I came to this world just to experience something.
It is an experience to be able to enjoy the glory and wealth; it is an experience to be able to taste the sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty; it is also an experience to be able to harvest a lot in the process of twists and turns.
As long as it is an experience, it must have its own unique meaning.
I think that if I live a good life, and then take the memories of my past experiences, I will have no regrets after going through this life.
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