A good life starts with a serious breakfast

Ding Yuan

2024-05-17 14:46Posted in Japanese lifestyle creators

When I got up a few mornings ago, I opened the Tencent News app as usual, and suddenly swiped the live broadcast of Porridge Cake Lun's [Chat Healing Breakfast Stall].

Porridge Cake Lun, a pancake stall owner who looks like Jay Chou.

Internet celebrities come and go, but Porridge Cake Lun has always maintained his original intention,

No spoofing, no work, no negative press, just silently making pancakes.

During the live broadcast, Congee Bi Lun carefully made the pancakes, while customers stared at the pancakes with anticipation, waiting for it to slowly take shape, add fillings, and become a plump and delicious pancake.

【Chat Healing Breakfast Stall】

Because of such a pancake stand, passers-by also slowed down, and they also interacted with the staff, chattering, and chatting about their recent troubles.

At that moment, I was reminded of the wonderful breakfast times of my childhood. It's the kind of time when you're relaxed, comfortable, and not anxious.

My childhood was spent in the countryside, carefree and at ease.

Every morning, what I look forward to most is the breakfast that my grandmother prepared for me.

In order not to let me get tired of eating, my grandmother prepared a different breakfast every time.

At that time, breakfast time was always very slow, and I could enjoy the food while chatting with my grandmother, listening to her teachings, and feeling the warmth of home.

Until now, in a bustling city.

Here, morning time becomes extremely precious, and the second hand in the morning seems to move very fast.

Because I live far away from the company, in order to be able to squeeze into the subway, in order not to deduct my salary for being late, I had to reluctantly wake up after the alarm clock rang several times, and then rushed to the company.

Breakfast was prioritized at the end, and every day, I bought a few buns at the gate of the community.

Eating while walking has become my daily routine.

Breakfast has become a dispensable task, a kind of "fooling" of oneself.

Then I started busy and anxious day after day......

In contemporary society, the anxiety of young people like me seems to have become the norm.

The stress of life, the competition at work, and the complexity of interpersonal relationships are all enough to make us feel tired and lost.

But it doesn't mean that we have to give in to stress, busyness, and anxiety, recently I started to try to heal myself through deep reading when I get off work, and I suggest that you can also try to challenge anxiety through the power of books, and here I recommend two books to you.

A book called "The Power of the Moment". I'm sure you've heard the name of this book. Living in the moment is easier said than done, and some people even spend a lifetime learning how to live in the moment.

The past cannot be changed, the future cannot be grasped, only the present is real, and the meaning and beauty can be felt or experienced by experiencing the present.

In addition to this, "Living Like a Philosopher" is also recommended, which has been hailed as a textbook for the Stoics.

The Stoics were a school of philosophy in ancient Greece that advocated the search for inner peace in order to attain happiness.

If anxiety has a natural enemy, then the Stoics are the natural enemy of anxiety.

Philosophy is not difficult, as long as you are willing to open your heart to feel and practice, you can also achieve inner peace and happiness like the Stoic philosophers.

In addition to the solace of philosophy, we also need shielding power -

Many times, our anxiety also comes from an overabundance of information, especially short videos and social media.

The false prosperity shown in short videos and social media makes us impetuous, even jealous.

We need to control how much time we spend on short-form videos and social media.

Leave time for reading, for philosophy and books,

There is a sentence that I deeply understand and believe deeply: the opposite of anxiety is concreteness.

What do you mean? Many times we are overwhelmed by all kinds of things and feel that we have a lot to do, but we don't know where to start, and we just get lost in the same place.

At this point, we can use the four-quadrant work taxonomy to make a perfect classification of our to-do items.

Four-quadrant taxonomy

Divide the to-do items into important urgent, important and non-urgent, unimportant urgent, and unimportant and non-urgent, and deal with them according to the principles in the diagram. At this point, your anxiety will be broken down individually, and then you will get out of it.

There are many ways to combat anxiety, such as reading, listening to music, watching movies, exercising, contact with nature, meditation, etc.

I'm sure you'll find something that works for you.

No matter where we are, no matter how busy our lives are, we must remember that we are people, not machines.

People should not be shrouded in anxiety, let it slow down, slow down, life is still beautiful.

Finally, I would like to thank Tencent News for giving me a good morning, and I look forward to Tencent News contributing more content and powerful content! 

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