America's Happiness Magazine once put up a topic like this: If you were chosen again from the beginning, what would you choose to do? ...
America's Happiness Magazine once put up a topic like this: If you were chosen again from the beginning, what would you choose to do?
A prominent military man said he wanted to open a rural grocery store. A female minister replied, she wanted to go to Costa Rica to run a small hotel. A mayor wants to change to become a reporter, photographer. The labor minister wants to become the director of a beverage production company.
The traders also have more thrilling answers: One wants to be a dog. The other, even more special, wanted to escape from the human world to become a plant ...
While ordinary people have the desire to become a president, want to become a diplomat, want to be a baker, all professions have.
However, very few people want to become themselves of the present.
People are at times very contradictory. They are living very well, the conditions around them are not bad, but sometimes there is the psychological suffering of the boredom of life. They are lacking in passion and often explain it by the mismatch of current living situations.
I used to feel jealous of a couple living in a deep forest. Because there is fresh air in the forest, there are large ancient sarras, there are quiet small roads, there are birds singing, fragrant fresh flowers.
However, the couple seem surprised to know that someone is jealous of their home. They think that there are not many places to visit, nor many scenes as rich and bustling as in the city.
At that time, I realized that there was no beautiful scene in familiar places. These once beautiful scenes all become familiar, flowers and trees, bright moon. During their long days, they did not consider these beautiful scenes as charming scenery, but became a familiar scene.
The answers of the ministers, traders and ordinary people in Happiness magazine show that the vast majority of them do not want to become the present themselves, just like the couple in the forest. For the scenes that others consider to be beautiful poetic scenes, to them are scenes that are too boring, nothing beautiful.
In the journey of life, the worst thing is not poverty, not bad luck, but the mind and mood in a state of unconsciousness and exhaustion.
People, things that once touched you no longer touch you. Things that once fascinated you will no longer appeal to you. At this time, human life needs a different landscape.
To avoid turning yourself into a stagnant pond, look bored with the familiar landscape but do not find enough sentient beings anymore, at work and in life. You pursue knowledge, rid yourself of the former, increasingly perfecting intellectually, morally. Pure spirit, purify the soul, you will feel the sublimation. At that time, you will see beautiful scenes that were not previously recognized right at your side. Or you can also afford and brave to explore other beautiful landscapes along the way.
Dare to have new experiences, sometimes also require a new vision, a new will.
According to Duwenzhang
Translated by Ms. Phoenix
