A question for everyone, what is the fairest thing in the world? There may be many answers, but the best answer I've ever heard, the fairest thing in the world, is – everyone gets old and no one can be young forever.
Aging is an inevitable thing, when the light passes away and youth is no longer there, human life will gradually lose its luster like the sunset sun, along with aging, disease and loneliness are like dark clouds, and even this only brilliance may be covered. Therefore, at a certain time, people should think carefully about how to face these problems when I am old.
Zhuangzi
"Zhuangzi" once told a story: when Emperor Yao, the tribal leader of the ancient period, visited the people, because Emperor Yao was very loved, so the people wished him a long life without boundaries, but Emperor Yao waved his hand and said: Thank you for your kindness, I, or I hope that I can live a shorter life!
Then everyone is very strange, who does not want to live a long life? Emperor Yao explained: "Shou is more humiliating"! What does it mean, that is, living too long is not a good thing, the longer he lives, the more shame he will receive, so Emperor Yao refused everyone's blessing for his longevity.
The pursuit of longevity is the common desire of human beings since ancient times, so many people still feel incomprehensible to "longevity and humiliation", in fact, you go to the nursing home to take a walk, and soon understand that "longevity and humiliation" is really reasonable.
When a person is old, with limited mobility, this can not eat that can not drink, and then the disease is plagued by all kinds of pain and suffering, and there is no one around to accompany themselves, you say that such an old age life, even if you lie in the bank of a billion, life expectancy can live to two hundred years old, it is estimated that no one is willing.
In his later years, the famous writer Mr. Barkin, who lived in the hospital and needed to rely on a catheter to eat to maintain his life, always lamented that longevity was a torture for him. Mr. Barkin does not need to worry about money, and his children are filial piety, but he personally feels that "longevity is more humiliating".
Therefore, when people are old, they are not fighting for money and children at all, everything must be based on health, because wealth and children cannot replace the pain and suffering they bear, and we must remember that if there is no healthy body, everything is equal to zero.
However, shou is more humiliating, not just means that there is a healthy body, and when you are old, your body is tough and jumpy, and you may not be blessed. Confucius said: Old and not dead is for thieves, what does it mean?
Old and useless, old and immoral, for the old disrespectful, such a person is a "thief" when he lives, he steals precious time, steals precious resources, and has no meaning and value to the whole society, is that not a thief? Therefore, a person's age is not the capital, and being respected by others is the capital.
The premise of being respected is that this person has a moral character worthy of respect, is a role model worth learning from young people, such an old age, can be "old and happy", because you are all positive energy, others like and respect such an old man, then he himself will be very happy, if he can still do something old, of course, it will be better.
Therefore, when a person is old, in addition to health, he must also have a spiritual wealth, and when he has both of these points, even if he does not rely on his children or money, he is still full of blessings. After people are old, they do not fight for money and children, remember the above two points, enrich themselves to infect others, such old people, the older they are, the more blessed they are.