Today I would like to recommend to you a children's book "The Lost Corner" that even adults can gain in it.
It's not so much a book as it is a picture book.
A picture book drawn with simple black and white lines.
This book was sent to me by a friend seven or eight years ago, and when I received it, I complained to her, complaining that she gave me a book for kindergarten children to read.
She just smiled and said that when you really understand it, you won't feel that way.
After many years, I remembered this book again, and opened it again, I don't know if I was too small to look at him at the time, or if I wasn't "smart enough" at the time, this time I actually saw something different in this book.
First of all, I would like to introduce the author of this picture book:
Schell Silverstein was a poet, illustrator, playwright, composer, and country singer.
Schell's song for the film Postcard from the Edge was nominated for the 63rd Academy Award for Best Original Song, and the record of the same name for "The End of the Sidewalk" won a Grammy Award in 1984.
He was also one of the greatest picture book writers of the 20th century, never learned to draw, but his picture book works have been translated into more than 30 languages and sold more than 180 million copies worldwide.
There are many other popular works of the author, if you are interested, you can search to see.
In the United States, as long as bookstores sell children's books, they will certainly sell Cher's works.
Although most of his works are children's books, they attract not only children, but also the hearts of adults.
This picture book mainly tells about:
A circle missing a corner, singing while searching for its own lost corner, along the way it encounters some too big, some too small.
After experiencing the wind and the sun and rain, it finally found the lost corner and became a whole circle, but it found that it could no longer sing, so it gently let go of the corner it had found, and went on its way alone to continue its search...
The reason why I recommend this book to everyone is because:
It may be the fastest book you'll be able to read, but it's probably also the one you'll have to spend your whole life practicing.
Whether it is the circle in the book that is missing a corner, or the self that moves forward in reality, after hardly tracking down his long-lost "corner", he finds that he cannot move forward with himself or even if you move forward together, you are no longer yourself.
What should you do that is disappointment? Is it waiting? Or do you let go of what you've been looking for for a long time and move on?
The ending of the book is also unexpected, but it is also the most thought-provoking part of the book.
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Why did Xiaoyuan find his lost corner, but finally chose to let it go and move on.
Perhaps xiaoyuan has gone through all the experience and finally understood what he really needs most, rather than the need it thinks.
In order to complete their goals, many people give up their youthful youth that should be happy and wanton, and suffer in all kinds of pain, but will it really get better after surviving? Is that really what you want?
Some time ago I bought a pair of shoes that I particularly liked, but now they are worn on my friend's feet.
Because when I bought that pair of shoes at that time, there was no suitable code for myself, but I liked it very much, thinking that I could wear it a little smaller, and it would be good to squeeze it, and the shoes would become bigger.
However, after a day of wearing, the roots of the feet were ground out of the blisters, and the feet were squeezed so that they could not walk.
The day with those shoes I liked was a ordeal for me, and if I had chosen the shoe size that suited me at the time, I wouldn't have suffered so much.
So, we have to wear shoes that fit our feet to live a life that suits us.
Instead of blindly staying on liking, like the circle in the book that is missing a corner, when it is not suitable, then decisively give up.
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In today's society, most people demand perfection in everything, perfection in work, perfection in school, perfection in family, perfection in body, etc., in short, they think that perfection is the best.
So does perfection have to be "beautiful"?
As the old saying goes: when the moon is full, it loses, and when the water is full, it overflows.
Being too perfect is already a shame in itself.
Sometimes there are flaws, and it is true perfection.
Well known as the broken arm of Venus, the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy. They have flaws, but it is these flaws that make them uniquely beautiful.
It triggers people's unlimited imagination and curiosity.
Shortcomings, let's look at it from another perspective, it may be the advantage, and the opportunity to change well.
The reason why I want to recommend this book is because life in the moment gives us too much pressure, we have been pursuing the success of others, but we have ignored whether it is suitable for us.
We are bent on making ourselves perfect but we neglect whether we are happy or not, and we overlook that even if we are perfect, we can be unhappy.
I hope that after reading this book, you can find the position that suits you, and be a happy self in that position although you have some "flaws".
Of course, you may also get the same harvest and inspiration from the book as I am.
I hope you will come and share your thoughts with me.
If you're looking for your "Lost Corner", check out this Lost Corner book!
Maybe it's the compass for your life's search.