In recent days, I have heard many people complain about the difficulties of life.
It seems that no matter where we go, we can't find the life we really want to live.
On the one hand, we worry that we will be mediocre in our lives, and on the other hand, we are worried that we will not be able to achieve what we want after working hard.
Therefore, to be stuck in such hesitation is not only a waste of time, but also a drain of the mind.
Such a state of life is exactly the same as the life of the protagonist presented in the recently popular "Mountain and Moon".
When you're in a time of confusion in your life and don't know what choice to make, read this book.
Perhaps, you will get a new understanding of life.
At the beginning of "The Story of the Mountain and the Moon", a story is told.
Li Zheng, a native of Longxi, has always boasted of his profound knowledge, and he was only 20 years old when he was a high school scholar.
For most people, such a starting point in life is already very powerful.
But at that time, he was arrogant and pretentious by nature, and he always felt that he was well-read and eloquent, and he was unwilling to succumb to such a position.
It didn't take long for him to resign and return to his hometown.
He thought that with his talent, sooner or later he would be able to make his poems famous for centuries.
Unfortunately, the loss of an important position means that there is no income.
When he returned to his hometown, let alone devote himself to poetry, it was difficult for him to even make a basic living.
After living such a tight life for too long, anyone will be consumed of their pride.
Li Zheng is no exception, he often has to worry about his livelihood, and it didn't take long for his face to become thin and his eyes were dull.
The youthful spirit of the past when he was on the Jinshi list is long gone.
Years later, he couldn't bear the hardships of making ends meet, so he had to go out again to seek office.
This time, he was not as arrogant as before, on the contrary, a small magistrate was enough to satisfy him.
But at this time, those who were in the same rank as him before were already in high positions, and he was the only one who had to endure the hardships that he was unwilling to endure back then, and had to do what he was unwilling to grovel to back then, starting from scratch.
He missed the best room for growth, and because of his depression and lack of joy in the officialdom, on a business trip many years later, his temperament changed greatly on the banks of the Rushui River, and he disappeared from everyone's sight.
Looking at Li Zheng's experience, I can't help but sigh.
It is said that people do not take young people lightly, so they indulge their temperament excessively.
But I forgot that there is another sentence after this sentence, there is no prodigal and not a gentleman.
Only by experiencing the turbulent years and constantly sharpening one's heart over the years can a gentleman's humble and stable character be created.
Li Zheng understood this truth too late.
In the second year of Li Zheng's disappearance, there was an overseer of the imperial history passing by the banks of the Rushui River, and because of the tight time, he had to take advantage of the moonlight to move forward.
Here he meets a tiger.
It's just strange that when this tiger was about to pounce on Yushi, it turned around, disappeared in the grass, and muttered "It's dangerous".
When Yu Shi heard it, wasn't this the voice of Li Zheng, a friend of Jinshi and Di in the same year?
Two old friends met in this way.
Li Zheng confessed the reason why he became a tiger, and when he looked back on his past life experiences, he felt regret, fear and pathos.
He complained about the moment when human nature was swallowed up by animal nature, and sighed for the fact that nothing has been achieved today.
Looking back on the past, he began to realize that when he was a man, he was said to be unruly and arrogant by others back then, all because of his shame.
He wanted to become famous with poetry, but he was reluctant to visit his friends and learn from each other.
I want to be liked by more people, but I don't want to be in the company of ordinary people.
To put it bluntly, it was because I was afraid that I was not a beautiful jade, so I didn't dare to think hard, but I half-believed that I was a beautiful jade, so I refused to be mediocre and was in the company of Wally.
In this way, he gradually detached himself from the mortal world and alienated the world, and the result was that anger and shame increasingly fueled the cowardly self-esteem in his heart.
This kind of arrogant shame finally turned into a beast one day, completely engulfing him, and completely ruining the peaceful and comfortable life that should have belonged to him.
Looking at Li Zheng's experience, although it has the attributes of a fable, why is it not what most of us think?
For ordinary people with average family background and average qualifications, who has never imagined the time when they would be invincible and invincible.
It's a pity that most people always give way to rationality and emotion on the road to success, lamenting that they have no talent, and on the other hand, they are cowardly and inferior, and they dare not let go.
Always pretentious, but mediocre in ability.
In this way, the only talent disappeared in laziness, and the few ambitions were gradually deviated in the entanglement, so he wasted his talent and spent half his life learning.
"The Story of the Mountains and Moons" also tells such a story, Wujing had a period of time to visit everywhere and ask questions before learning scriptures from Tang Seng Xitian.
He wanted to figure out the meaning of life, the meaning of life.
After searching for no result, he found that his initial mentality was a gambler's mentality.
He obviously wanted to choose the path that seemed difficult but had many rewards, but he was worried, "I chose the difficult road and was not saved after going through a lot of hardships, so didn't I work in vain?"
There is no way, time passes quietly in such a forward-looking future.
It is this utilitarian tendency, and the mentality of suffering from gains and losses, that leads to his indecision, and also makes him stay on the road of not much hardship but will eventually lead to destruction.
In fact, whether it is Li Zheng or Wujing, this kind of state of mind has been experienced by many people around them.
Most of us in life are pretentious and feel that they are not in the pool, but on the other hand, they are cowardly and inferior, afraid that after hard work, they will expose their talents or lack of talents.
I'm even more afraid that after letting go, it is not the imaginary ending that greets me.
As a result, thinking too much, doing too little, having too strong ambitions, and weak action have become character flaws that many people can't avoid.
So for many long nights, we lay in bed and lamented that the world was difficult, and at the same time we felt sorry for wasting our talents.
But in fact, in this life, in just more than 30,000 days, isn't the purpose of our life just to experience it?
Instead of caring too much about the result and being bound by the bad result that you don't want to accept, it's better to accept your ordinariness calmly.
Don't be anxious about goals that you can't reach, and don't feel bad about exposing your shortcomings.
It is not impossible to define life as an inch of joy for every inch of progress.
Nolan said in Pulp Fiction:
Self-esteem will only hurt you, it will never help you.
This is true, and although the overly strong self-esteem seems to make the person extremely high, it will also make him fall into the vicious circle of giving up efforts and not exposing the flaws of talent.
Therefore, instead of saying that "if you do nothing, your life will be too long, and if you want to do something, your life will be too short", it is better to be down-to-earth and grasp what you can grasp first.
Stand on one step first, and then think about the next step.
Let go of your pride and regain your ambition.
It is the only way to move forward in life.
As the saying goes:
Mature ears of rice always keep their heads down, and life, lower your posture, in order to fly higher.
Encourage you.