When young people lament that they don't know what to do in the future, I give them two pieces of advice: If you don't want to waste your time, either calm down and read some books or make some money. Both of these points will be useful to you in the future.
How can individuals change society? This sounds ambitious, because it implicitly asserts that "individuals can and can transform society." Usually, what we hear the most is that individuals are weak and powerless, unable to compete with society, and the task of transforming society is almost impossible. In this regard, my judgment is that if you take your life as your own great future, you can also transform society.
It is not to boast about this era, although there are still many bad things in this era, there are still many things worth doing. There is a saying that your value lies in the weight of your enemies. For us, our value lies in the weight of suffering in this era, and how much determination and courage we can have to transform on this basis.
As far as the individual is concerned, you are part of society, and when you change, it means that society changes with it. Although this change is small, no matter how small, it is objectively real. In terms of social impact, the "butterfly effect" accumulates. Society is in motion all the time, especially in the era of the Internet and even the Internet of Things, a small change or intervention may trigger a small storm of destruction and decay.
Take your own responsibility for the world and save yourself
In the past, we used to say that "the world is our own responsibility", which is a noble feeling, but if you understand where a good society comes from, you know that a more reliable statement should be "taking one's own responsibility as the world". There is a saying in the movie "Schindler's List", "Whoever saves one person saves the whole world". This person includes others that you need to save at critical times, as well as yourself.
Taking a step back, if you are not a real being yourself, a false shell, how can you really save others? If you can't even tell which direction this era is going, how can you help others?
I often say this sentence: managing yourself well is the best management! Some people talk about the Tao, and their mouths are like a river, pointing one finger at others, but more fingers pointing to themselves. Don't expect a person who doesn't manage himself well without punctuality.
Find your interests and mission
I am a lucky person, I know my interest and mission very early, so I do something I like from my heart, and my life is simple.
I admit that I am an idealist, but in fact, I am more of a realist. It's just that the reality I respect is based on the fact that, as Hemingway said, it takes a lot of people a lifetime to understand that we really need so little. Warm sunshine, fresh air, soft earth, these gifts of nature that do not need to be fought for, but we are struggling all our lives away from them.
Today, even in a developing country like China, the vast majority of people have achieved food and clothing. However, how many people are living according to their own interests, and how many people have found their own life's mission? "Why is this life?" I often think of such a question.
Sometimes, we really need to stop and think about what are our lifelong choices and expectations. We can't be born, it's our parents who bring us into this world; we can't die, and the naughty god of death will one day inadvertently take us away. Between life and death, we are almost dazed in this life and this life. If in your lifetime, you can never think in your heart, practice what you want, and do what you want to do, and life will become an infinite battle, then there is really no meaning and hope.
With an independent heart, do gregarious things
People need to have an independent spirit. If you're not sure how important the spirit of independence is, look for some videos on the Internet that do success training, they advocate that everyone can become a top successful person like Li Ka-shing, and the reason why they don't become Li Ka-shing is because everyone doesn't have the same opportunities as Mr. Li. How nonsensical are you saying, how can people be the same as people? And the circumstances. If you don't think, you don't know how to judge, what others say is what it is, this is the lack of independent spirit.
And this independent spirit is particularly important in the current era of fragmentation of knowledge, networking of information, plague of rumors, obsession with money, emotional marriage, and so on.
This is not to say that independence is our ultimate goal, objectively speaking, no one can live out of the group.
Man is a social animal and cannot be isolated. Isolation is relative, and truly isolated individuals do not exist. It's just that the circles are dense and the size is different.
In the spirit of maintaining a little resistance, guard one centimeter of one's conscience
People need to be gregarious, otherwise society cannot function, but gregariousness is not just about following the group, no matter when, people must maintain a little spirit of resistance. This spirit of resistance allows you not to lose yourself in the vast sea of people, or even sink with the ship.
A society has no bottom line and is largely due to the loss of the spirit of resistance of its citizens.
This era needs progress, and that is the consensus. Shame and pain need to be preserved before progress is made. Maybe you can't change anything, at least you can tell him it's wrong to do it, and you protest yourself not to do it.
Lin Yutang is right, "There is such a strange group of people in China, who are themselves the lowest class, whose interests are being damaged every day, but have the consciousness of a ruling class. It is almost impossible to find something so mentally retarded in the animal world." Some people speak, and another group of people will say, you are not "rational and constructive" in your words, but it is his right to speak. Why accomplish your preset purpose? Why make a speaker your advisor?
The spirit of resistance is not only a bloody battle on the battlefield, but also in daily life. You can rebel like Shelley, Thoreau, Tolstoy, Gandhi, Alice Paul, Muster, Martin Luther King, Jr., but the resistance of these forefathers is not limited to immoral power, but also to cultural, fashionable ideas that they cannot accept. On the one hand, to lead the times and keep up with the times, on the other hand, to keep a little distance from the times, so Thoreau went to Walden Lake.
Pessimism is going undercover, don't live in fear
I have always believed that the Chinese people have never lacked enthusiasm for helping the needy and transforming society. I also know how well I live my life, only busy with "Stepway Custom Training" and "Heirloom". And what more of us want to do most of the time is only a good wish, or just have ideas, or lack of action, and finally can not achieve "willing, determined, and practical", and it is even more difficult to achieve "the unity of knowledge and action".
Fortunately, I have a sense of consciousness and know the meaning of my actions. Everyone sweats more, and society rarely sees a drop of blood. If we can't change the big environment, then change the small environment, if the small environment can't change, at least we can change ourselves, so I say, you can't decide when the sun rises, but you can decide when you get up.
I confess that fear is the common sentiment of man, that man cannot do without fear and awe, and that society depends to some extent on the proper functioning of fear within man. Otherwise, people will be lawless.
But people with good ideals cannot live in the arms of fear all the time. "Dying before leaving the school" is a tragedy, and the greater tragedy is that many people are scared to death by themselves before they leave the school. Fear should be used to enhance our rationality, not to destroy it.
Don't use the past to destroy our present and future, and don't use induction to guide our lives in its entirety. Induction is not a science, it has only a psychological basis, and has no logical basis, which can only be used for reference. Don't be foolish to believe that "history tells the future." Russell once said that a chicken that is fed by its owner every day cannot conclude that it will one day be broken by its owner's neck. History is history, and time has passed, and letting history tell the future is only a revelation rather than a decision.
Conversely, even if your daily efforts don't set you free, you can't conclude that you will never be free. Without you, the world will change, let alone you?
I say pessimism is undercover because pessimism destroys our fighting spirit. In my limited observation, a big reason why many people have ideals but achieve nothing is that they are pessimistic, overemphasizing the negative factors of the environment, and then using this negative factor to guide their lives. Others limit you once, you limit yourself for the rest of your life. This excessive self-censorship is less self-destructive than deliberate.
Believe in time, believe in the general trend
People are units of time. Many people are not free because they have lost the dimension of time and are only struggling in the cage of space.
Because you believe in time, you know what is most important in your life, and you also know how to do things calmly, live a calm life, and make friends calmly...
As I said, concentration camps are for escape. This is true for prisoners, and it should be true for jailers. From the first day of bricking, defenders fled to West Berlin, indicating that the Wall began to collapse from the first day of its establishment.
Everyone wants to have a better life, so we must believe in the general trend of the people's hearts, believe in conscience, good deeds and beautiful things, and believe that as long as everyone works hard, the nature of freedom, equality and mutual respect will make this society move towards an open place.
Mr. Liang Shuming's two sons, one named Liang Peikuan and one Liang Peishu. "Forgiveness" implies, which shows that Liang Shuming's intentions are good. In our society, we have rarely seen a culture of "forgiveness." Turn on the TV, tune in to the TV channel, and in less than five minutes you'll hear "I want revenge." People who really want to change society have no enemies in their minds, only people who are trying to help and help.
Everyone has the right to a good life. We have no shortage of extreme strength, we lack the most: the power of gentleness and firmness, compassion and forgiveness.