Far away, near
Many times, a person tries his best to search for half a life, only to find that the best things are already around.
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My favorite rock band, U2, has a classic song called "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" ("I still haven't found what I'm looking for"). One of the lyrics reads:
I have climbed highest mountains I've climbed the highest mountains
I have run through the fields I walked through fields...
I have run I used to run
I have crawled and crawled forward...
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for but I still haven't found what I'm looking for
I have kissed honey lips I've kissed honey lips before
Felt the healing in her fingertips thanks to her for healing my wounds with her fingers...
I have spoke with the tongue of angels I have spoken to angels
I have held the hand of a devil and have shook the devil's hand...
The protagonist in the song has obviously used his best efforts to explore a lot of the outside world, experienced a lot of strange human feelings, but still has not found what he really wants.
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Recently reviewed the classic movie "Forrest Gump". Many people's observation angle will naturally start from Forrest Gump himself, praising his inspirational story of growing from a low-IQ child who can be bullied by everyone to a war hero and a universal idol. But if you start from Jenny's point of view, you can also have different inspirations.
Forrest Gump has been foolishly fond of poor Jenny since childhood, but Jenny only regards him as a normal friend, and when he is young, he wanders, takes drugs, and degenerates with a bunch of unreliable men, rejecting and avoiding Forrest Gump again and again.
It wasn't until people were nearly middle-aged and knew they were terminally ill that Jenny took the initiative to contact Forrest Gump. Although Forrest Gump was already a successful person on the rich side at this time, he came to Jenny's city without stopping, married Jenny without the slightest hesitation, and took care of Jenny until the last day of her life.
Their happy time together is so short that people lament why the first half of their lives are stumbling? The person who loves him the most has always been around, but he has suddenly realized that he has been confused.
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Similarly, our earth, let us breathe air every day, enjoy the sunshine and rain, have long been accustomed to it, usually who will notice or even thank all this? But you know, if we are born on Mars in an extremely harsh environment, all this is a luxury.
Our bodies, organs, parts, usually they are operating dutifully, we seem to not feel their presence, often stay up late, overeating, mood swings, let them overwork. Once you can really feel their existence, it is often the time when the human body is suffering from diseases.
Our relatives and friends silently cook us breakfast and care about our warmth and coldness, but we will feel that they are all taken for granted, and we will feel that they are very wordy, and their minds are occupied by endless work and trivia, and there is no time to give care and feedback. Once you lose it one day, you will feel the pain in your bones.
Our country, which has been firmly in control of the epidemic this year, has allowed us to safely travel by plane and high-speed train, talk about food and travel with our friends with great interest, and seem to have begun to forget the ferocity and ruthlessness of the epidemic at the beginning of last year. But if we are in the United States, Japan, india at this moment, the fiery epidemic will make us miserable. "What was originally ordinary and unremarkable is now like a helpless luxury."
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The same is true of business.
When we are exhausted to spend a lot of time and money, to participate in this social salon, that EMBA class, in an attempt to find the ideal client and partner, it is better to stop and think about it, it is likely that the people we have known in the past have our potential partners and customer resources, and we already have a deep understanding and trust.
The same goes for value investing.
In daily life, what we can see with our own eyes, hear with our ears, taste with the tip of our tongues, and touch with our hands is enough for us to select many very high-quality listed companies. For such a selected company, we will have more confidence and conviction to be able to persevere in times of turmoil. We don't need to follow the news, buy some hardcore technology or biopharmaceutical companies that we don't know what they are doing, and buying the wrong thing is the norm, even if we buy the right one.
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The multitudes looked for him a thousand times, and looked back, but the man was there, and the lights were dimmed.
Let us learn to be grateful, pay attention to and cherish everything around us.
There is no reason, there is a sunny day.