What would happen if a tiny steel needle were stuck into a growing apple?
In March 2022, artist Liu Yaohui bought an apple tree, where he wanted to conduct an artistic experiment.
He inserted a 3.8-centimeter steel needle into each small apple before it reached fruit, about the same length as the fruit at that time.
Originally, it was thought that these steel needles were just left in the apple's body, but the result was surprising.
Because when it was time for the harvest, he found that only 75 of the 175 apples had survived, and they were weak and deformed.
The remaining apples either rotted on the tree or fell into the soil.
Liu Yaohua said that he can even imagine how these apples, as a living being, fought fiercely with the steel needles in his body every minute and second.
Later, he named the 75 apples "Restless" and held an art exhibition called "Peace be upon you."
He took a picture of the survivor compared to a normal apple.
You see, under love and sunshine, the apple would have grown into a ruddy and bright appearance, but under the action of the steel needle, the survivor could not remove the effect of this steel on growth for the rest of his life.
These apples have become deformed in the restless struggle, they are survivors of suffering, but survival does not mean luck, and he still cannot change the nature of the victims.
"Restless Heart" by Liu Yaohua
Such a performance art has deeply shocked many people, which also reminds us of Mr. Yu Hua's classic interpretation of "suffering":
"Suffering is suffering, and he will not bring success. Suffering is not worth pursuing, and the will is tempered because suffering cannot be avoided. ”
How many people grow like an apple stuck in a steel needle?
A mother took her daughter on a trip, but she deliberately bought a slow train without a seat and let her daughter stand all the way to the finish line.
She said: Now I want my daughter to feel the hardships she has endured when she grew up.
The mother posted a short video with the caption: "If there are difficulties, you have to go up, and if you don't have difficulties, you have to go to the top to create difficulties." ”
Especially when I saw the dissatisfaction of my daughter's "rolling of her eyes", she still wanted to "continue next time".
What kind of education is this?
Forced my daughter to despair for help, and then heard her cry and explain the hardships of life before she was satisfied? After going back, her daughter will be able to study hard and Xi work hard, and she will be able to work hard? It doesn't seem to be.
Girls who look the same age on the train have seats, can play with their phones, and listen to songs with headphones.
In this comparison, even if I can understand the hard work of my parents, I will only think at the moment that "I don't have what others have, other people's parents love me, but my parents will only make me suffer......"
As a result, "I can't feel the love of my family" is like a steel needle pierced into my heart.
On Mother's Day last year, an 11-year-old child secretly bought a bouquet of flowers for his mother with his pocket money.
I thought it was a surprise for my mother, but I didn't expect my mother to say after receiving it: "It's not practical at all, take it and return it!"
The child returned from the flowers and cried. The mother didn't understand it at all, and took a picture of the child's crying and posted it on the Internet, and asked everyone: "My son is very aggrieved and actually cried, did I really not do it right?"
Afterwards, the media interviewed the mother, in fact, she was disgusted with her son's indiscriminate spending, so she was very angry.
Can't the son buy a bouquet of flowers to make his mother happy?
Some netizens commented well: This mother only knows that money is precious, but she doesn't know things more expensive than money.
A bouquet of flowers doesn't cost much, but the son's heart can't be bought with any amount of money.
In fact, I also believe that spending this bouquet of money will not be impossible for this mother to eat, but it may come from the lack of material things in the process of growing up, which makes her feel deprived of money all the time.
This sense of deprivation has nothing to do with how much money she has now, but rather a deep imprint of misery on her: we don't deserve a better life.
What's even more terrifying is that she passed on such a sense of "suffering" to her son, so even if she had a trace of joy in her heart, her "sense of unworthiness" still made her unable to enjoy her son's gift with peace of mind.
How many people still don't understand that suffering will improve people's spiritual quality and stimulate people's fighting spirit to a certain extent, but the premise is that the bearer of suffering has tenacious mental strength and extraordinary will, otherwise in most cases, suffering will only destroy people's confidence and hurt people's dignity.
How many people have grown up in such an educational environment, and until they grow up, they still can't get rid of their inner insecurity and sense of deprivation?
Last year's college student Xi reality show "Heartwarming Offer 5" Huang Kai resonated with many people.
The company Xi by the college students in this program is a top law firm, and the personal resumes of the college students are very good, most of them are from Peking University, Tsinghua University, Oxford and other famous universities.
Among them, some people are studying abroad, and some people have rich talents, and it can be seen from here that the family background of most Xi students should still be good.
But among them, Huang Kai is an exception.
At a meal, everyone talked about their childhood, and the Xi students in the same group said that they had a happy childhood, but Huang Kai said that he was basically equivalent to having no parents.
Because when he was more than a year old, his parents divorced, and then his mother left, and his father reorganized the family.
When he went to his father's house, his father actually said that he was just a child in this village, and did not say that it was his own child. In recent years, when he finally contacted his mother, his mother told Huang Kai not to disturb her life anymore.
He was raised by his grandparents, who were in his 70s and had to dig herbs in the mountains. Fortunately, Huang Kai worked hard, and he was the first college student in their village.
But when he was in college, he didn't know what major to choose, and people around him said that it was easy to find a job after studying medicine, so he chose to study medicine.
However, it wasn't really a subject he liked, so after working for a year or two, he started going to graduate school again. And this time he decided to take the interdisciplinary law exam!
Do you think his life is starting to fight back? No, no.
On the road to graduate school, he walked for five whole years! How much pressure there is, maybe others can't empathize.
Fortunately, five years later, he was finally admitted to Tsinghua University!
To be honest, this is simply a model for ordinary people to rewrite their fate. However, when the tutor spoke about my upbringing, I fell silent.
The parents of the lawyer are both teachers of Peking University, so he has seen the direction of his life very early from the Primary School Affiliated to Peking University and the High School Affiliated to Peking University to Peking University, and he is full of hope and distance.
As netizens said, Huang Kai worked hard for 28 years before he finally reached the starting line!
It is conceivable that if Huang Kai was also born in such a family and has such educational resources, he would have avoided many detours in his life.
After all, most people with a background similar to Huang Kai dropped out of school early.
What is worthy of admiration is Huang Kai's fighting spirit, which has never been all the hardships he has suffered.
The fragrance of plum blossoms is not because of the icy and snowy environment, but because she is originally fragrant. The ugly duckling became a white swan because it was originally a white swan.
If there is no suffering, the fragrance of plum blossoms will only be appreciated by more people, the ugly duckling will not have to go through the stage of self-doubt, and many of us will only have a richer and more fulfilling life.
It may be that we have been tied up in "suffering education" for so long that it is easy to attribute real problems to personal problems many times.
In hot weather, some people photographed workers using hats to scoop cold water on their bodies to cool down, so someone came out and said: What right do we have to complain about life?
You've probably heard people say, "If you're tired, go to the 4 a.m. wet market and hospital emergency room."
Are we here to live in this world more bitterly than anyone else?
If you see others suffering and you deserve to suffer, then what are you trying to do?
The workers are indeed hard, so what we should ask is whether they have a high temperature allowance, whether there is a break at noon, and whether the construction site provides them with a more comfortable rest area...... And not to give them cheap sympathy.
If you really feel tired, you should take a good rest, instead of comparing who is more tired and can endure hardships with others.
Just as the 75 apples, if they could speak, perhaps the most important question they wanted to ask was: Why do you want to implant us with steel needles?
Only by seeing the root causes of many sufferings can we have the motivation to change!
Knowing all this, we can truly understand why young people don't want to suffer nowadays. Because a lot of suffering is unnecessary, a lot of suffering is also created, and a lot of suffering is rationalized......
Finally, I think of Li Jian's words at last year's National Day Music Festival:
"I hope that everyone can live a simple and easy life, and can live a good life without putting in a lot of effort, especially those who have just graduated, and it is better to experience less setbacks and tribulations, and not to endure setbacks and tribulations. I hope you all the best. ”
This blessing to all friends, I wish you all a safe and successful 2024!
Author: Lei Lei, Source: WeChat public account action faction (ID: xingdongpai77).