One
When I was a child, I dreamed of becoming a painter and began to paint as soon as I had free time. When my father saw that I was so obsessed with painting, he led me to visit an old painter. After the old painter saw my painting, he asked, "Child, why do you want to learn to draw?" ”
"I want to be a painter." I say.
"But not everyone who learns to paint ends up being a painter." The old painter reminded me: "Child, do you feel happy when you draw?" ”
"Happy." I replied.
"It's enough to be happy!"
The old painter also told me that there are two kinds of flowers in the world, one flower can bear fruit, one flower can not bear fruit, and the flower that cannot bear fruit is more beautiful, such as roses, and tulips, they never give up blooming their own happiness and beauty because they cannot bear fruit. People are like flowers, there is a kind of person who can bear fruit and achieve a career, while there is a kind of person who cannot bear fruit, has nothing to achieve in his life, and is just an ordinary person. But as long as ordinary people have happiness in their hearts and smiles on their faces, they can still be appreciated and loved by people like roses and tulips. Before leaving, the old painter patted me on the shoulder and encouraged me, "Child, be a happy person." Because if there is happiness, there is the happiness of life, and if there is happiness, there is the sunshine of life. ”
Now, I still maintain the habit of painting, but the purpose is no longer to become a painter, but to appreciate and enjoy the joy of life in the process of painting. As the old painter said, it is enough to have happiness, there is happiness to be happy in life, and there is happiness to have the sunshine of life.
Two
In the spring, I saw a girl standing on the balcony, holding a wooden stick, and at one end of the stick was a beautiful red silk thread, which floated lightly outside the window. I asked the little girl what she was doing, and the little girl said she was fishing for butterflies. I asked, how can you catch butterflies without a hook? The little girl said that she was not fishing for the body of the butterfly, but the joy of fishing for the butterfly.
The little girl's words reminded me of a friend. He loves fishing and goes out early in the morning and only returns in the evening. Once, the fish basket he brought back was empty, and there was not a single fish, but he still sang all the way. Others asked incomprehensibly, "You have waited for a day, and you have not waited for a fish to be hooked, how can you still be so happy?" He replied, "It's a matter that the fish doesn't bite my hook, but I catch a day of joy!" ”
It turns out that for a real angler, the best fish is happiness.
"The sky leaves no trace of a bird, but I have flown by." I had read this poem for a long time, and at that time, I only felt that this poem was beautiful, but I didn't know where the beauty was. Now I understand the beauty and connotation of this poem from that friend: the purpose of flying is not to leave traces, but to enjoy freedom and happiness in flight.
Similarly, life will not leave traces of our happiness, but as long as we have been happy, this is enough, because for life, the best fish is happiness!
Three
Recently, I read a report about Iceland: Iceland is located in the cold North Atlantic Ocean, about 13% of the land is covered with ice and snow, and it is also one of the countries with the most active volcanoes in the world. Winter is a long night, 20 hours a day is night, can be described as "dark day"! However, Iceland has the lowest mortality rate in the world, and its life expectancy is the highest in the world.
Why do Icelanders living in such harsh conditions have the lowest mortality rate and the highest average life expectancy in the world?
With this question in mind, a polling group in the United States called Gallup conducted a sample survey of residents of 18 countries around the world, and the results showed that Iceland's residents are the happiest people in the world. Of the 270,000 Icelanders who took the test, 82 percent said they were satisfied with their lives.
It turns out that the secret of Icelanders' longevity is happiness. Happiness is the best medicine, happiness is a flower of life, it can not only delay the aging of our physiological functions, but also allow us to see the beauty and sunshine of the world through the window of happiness, in the face of adversity.
