When I was a child, I watched an animated film called Episode 25 and Episode 26 of the fourth season of "Big Ears Tutu", which was called "Forever Alive" and got some feelings, and I wanted to share it with friends who were also thinking about this problem.
In a biology class at kindergarten, an older brother said that the average lifespan of a parrot is only seven years.
The children were very sad after listening to it. I felt that after seven years the parrot had left the world. And they also think of their own parents, which makes them even more sad.
After returning home, I didn't think about it, thinking that everyone would slowly leave this world.
Later, on weekends, mom and dad took Tutu to see the exhibition to relax, hoping to help him get out of his unhappy mood.
Seeing Picasso's painting, Dad told Tutu:
Although Grandpa Picasso died and left this world, he left many paintings as gifts for the world.
As long as you see the paintings, you will think of Grandpa Picasso, then his life will live in these paintings forever, accompanying us.
Later, in the afternoon, the family went to play on the grass of the park. Tutu saw a leaf withered and fell, so he asked his father, "Is it dead?" ”
Dad said to him:
It looks dead on the surface, but it will turn into fertilizer, into the nutrients of the big tree, and next year the big tree will grow a lot of new leaves, and this is the gift of this leaf to leave this world.
Tutu later thought that his parents were not painters or musicians, and what gifts could they leave for the world?
Mom and Dad told him that they left a lot of gifts, the biggest of which was Tutu, which was given to a cute child in this world.
So Tutu later understood:
Man lives, and the meaning of life is to continue to leave gifts to the world, so that we can live forever and live in the gifts we leave behind.
I always hope to find a certain logic in life, and then follow this logical line myself, so that I can make my life happier. Some people's logic line is to make money, and when they make money, they live very happily; some people's logic line is to play, and they are very happy to live well.
And I haven't found it before, after seeing this, my logic to myself is: leave a little something to see as much as possible, so that my future self or others can think of you through these things. That's all.
Like to write, just write more words; like photography, just take more photos; like to travel, just go to some places you want to play; like to read, read more books, and then find opportunities to output some things, these things will be seen by themselves later, children will see later, and people who want to see them later can watch. This is the trace that life once left behind.