Light and Shadow
Tolstoy said: All changes, all charm and all beauty in life are made up of light and shadow. This statement is very reasonable, and it is a summary of life after experiencing twists and turns and hardships. In fact, he told us that there is no so-called smooth sailing in the world, some are rainbows seen after clearing the fog, some are getting up after falling, and some are mature and sophisticated after repeated setbacks. And this constitutes our rich life. A life without ups and downs is monotonous and meaningless.
If Helen Keller hadn't been blind since she was a child, she wouldn't have been so eager for light, and she wouldn't have written that touching article: If I had three days of light. Light is out of reach for her, and the long darkness has not made her lose her yearning for light. In the darkness, she constantly cultivated her knowledge and understanding of the world, and gradually planted the seeds of light for herself in the dark world. Physical defects did not make her a person abandoned by life, but made her a strong person and a master of fate. The shadow in her life has become the most glorious part of her life, which has turned her from a hopeless disabled person into a successful person with healthy and beautiful mind. If we take the setbacks in her life, the despair and failure that ordinary people can't understand as shadows, then not being troubled by the shadows for a long time and believing in the future will constitute her bright road.
a person who tries to have a smooth life is doomed to experience twists and turns. Fate is the same for everyone. From a secular point of view, the rich children around us may be richer than your family and have more wealth to rely on than you, but the rich have the same troubles as the rich. They are always worried that so much property will be used up sooner or later, and what to do if they are robbed. Because everything is so smooth, they often forget to care about the people around them and do something for an era and country in their rich and luxurious lives. Therefore, the selfishness and low morality of the rich second generation have also become the focus of social attention. Without the struggle experience of their peers, whether they can withstand the test of future life when they grow up in a greenhouse has become a concern for their parents and even themselves. These over-proud and smooth rich second generation, if they are allowed to pamper and grow up without setback education, will inevitably fall into a situation of doing nothing and doing nothing.
There is a song that sings well: We failed, so we can choose to start all over again. This applies to everyone. Because everyone can't guarantee that everything will go smoothly in his life, especially in youth, when we go to the society, we need to face everything independently and work hard on our own, we should realize that setbacks may occur at any time, but we only need to believe that failure is a successful mother, giving us experience and courage to deal with difficulties in the future. What can we fear?
For those who have experienced sufferings, sufferings will become the wealth of their lives, enrich their life experiences, and thus add rich music to their lives. People like that always treat everything with optimism. The so-called "Look at the clouds and clouds, see the flowers bloom and fall" is the truth. Suffering and happiness in life, like shadow and light, are two sides of a coin. We see hope because of the light, and we see our own gap because of the shadow, failure and frustration, so as to find the reason to keep moving forward. Therefore, our route is moving forward in twists and turns. We are like sailors who constantly adjust their course, but the goal is to reach the other side successfully. People can't be smooth all their lives, but the shadow will not hang over us all our lives, so we should choose to sing the light eagerly and face the shadow bravely!
Perfect pros and cons
Bad blue eyes
There is a story that says that a child waded through mountains and rivers in search of happiness, but he couldn't find it for a long time. When he was very depressed, he met a fairy, and the fairy asked him why he was so sad. The child told the fairy that he had been looking for happiness, but he never found it. The fairy smiled and said, Don't you find that you have gained all the way? You already know what misfortune is. Isn't that happiness?
I found happiness after suffering misfortune. Happiness is the feeling of gain, satisfaction and personal experience when you really experience absolute misfortune.
in the journey of life, we often pursue perfection, hoping to stay away from negative things and only touch and harvest positive things, always thinking that negative things are not necessary at all. It should be noted that in the process of pursuing perfection, we will encounter many bumps, and it is precisely because of the flatness we hope in the thorns that it is particularly flat.
We praise the light only because we have suffered from darkness.
Because of the light, the shadow becomes hopeful, and because of the shadow, the light is even more dazzling. Everything in this world is perfect, harmonious, charming and changeable, which is composed of two opposite sides.
There is a children's song "Planting the Sun", which expresses a beautiful and childish wish: I hope to plant the sun, plant a sun, and bear many suns. I hope that the South Pole and the Arctic Ocean will hang the sun at night, so all the world will be bright. Do you know what a terrible thing it will be if this wish comes true? Day and night, cold and hot, these opposite natural phenomena construct perfect laws. Because there is day and night, we feel safer. Because there is night, day becomes a new beginning of everything. If day and night are mixed together, how boring our life will be? Although the cold in the Arctic and Antarctic is daunting, it is also a happy paradise for many hardy animals. Some time ago, I saw a picture. Because of global warming, the living environment of many polar bears was challenged. In the picture, the poor bear struggled on a melting ice block, which made people bitter.
In short, absolute perfection does not exist, just like absolute darkness, everything is made up of positive and negative sides, and the best is nothing more than that, just like Tolstoy's famous saying that all changes in life, all charm and all beauty are made up of light and shadow. Only by knowing how to appreciate defects can we truly appreciate beauty; It is also because of the experience of beauty that we can appreciate the shortcomings better. In this way, positive and negative sides, build a perfect life.
(About the author: bad blue eyes, columnist, author of Love Call Transfer, etc.)
Colorful light and shadow, song of life
Gao Kefang
What is light? Is the sun giving the world endless brilliance? Is it the yearning of ancient and modern politicians for an open career? Or is it your vision of a better life? Perhaps, the light can be transformed into a different realm in everyone's heart, but she is also a common pursuit that all sentient beings are eager for, longing for, paying for and fighting for. Light always represents beauty, and the world is dazzling because of its light, just like the gorgeous stage and the colorful neon lights in the city. So, have you ever thought about the shadow behind the light?
Yes, the reason why light becomes light is that it is dazzling because there is a shadow behind it. Light and shadow are like a pair of twin sisters, which go hand in hand. Our journey of pursuing light is actually seeking in the shadow, and the other end of the shadow must be light.
Shadow is the light, which is the hardship and effort we need to pay in our unremitting pursuit. Throughout the ages, how many of those accomplished statesmen and scientific masters have not struggled in difficulties in their struggle for their ideals? In order to achieve the light in their minds, they are willing to be silent in the temporary darkness and endure material poverty and spiritual suffering. This may be what most people need to experience before they realize their ideals. Su Qin stabbed stocks in the Warring States and Sun Jing hung on the beam in the Eastern Han Dynasty, which vividly demonstrated the hard work at the beginning of success, and now it is a household name. Kuang Heng in the Western Han Dynasty also made unyielding efforts to steal light from the wall, and later became a knowledgeable Confucian scholar. In modern China, in order to save China from fire and water, to liberate the suffering people, and to usher in the dawn of new China, the awakened people with lofty ideals sacrificed their lives and shed their blood, and fought hard with feudal forces and foreign invaders, and how much blood they paid, which led to the heroic declaration that "the people of China stood up from now on" and the miracle China that stood tall in the world today.
Shadows are the fences that prevent us from success. A person, even a country, will never have a smooth road to achieve his ideals and success, and there will always be opposition and restraint from a few saboteurs. At the beginning of the 16th century, Copernicus put forward Heliocentrism and wrote the great Theory of the Operation of Celestial Bodies. However, due to the pressure of the church, it was not published, which hindered the display of truth. At the end of 19th century, the reform and political reform led by Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao was to get rid of the shackles of the old forces and actively modernize China, but it was strongly opposed by the conservative forces led by Empress Dowager Cixi. The process of pursuing light is also a process of constantly breaking through various fences.
Shadow is a weakness in our human nature, which is beyond our personal power. Everyone lives in the society and is a part of it. The strength of individuals is limited, but the strength of the whole society is infinite. As the old saying goes, "There is a sequence of teaching and learning, and there is a specialization in the arts." Everyone has his own expertise and shortcomings. We not only need to appreciate and affirm one's career success, but also need to tolerate one's other shortcomings. Perhaps, it is precisely because of its shortcomings that it can achieve its glory on the other hand.
Light and shadow complement each other. Light without shadow is just a dazzling white light without vitality, so we don't know the existence of light. Suddenly, I remembered the kaleidoscope that brought me endless joy when I was a child, and it changed a lot with a gentle turn. Yes, if there is no shadow, will it change into endless colors?
(About the author: Gao Kefang, member of Shandong Writers Association and director of Jinan Writers Association. He has published novels such as The Seven-year Itch, Lovers and Relatives, The Seven-year Itch 2, The Age of Paper Marriage, etc. Among them, "The Seven-Year Itch" has been filmed in TV series. )
Light and shadow
Chen Zhong
Light and shadow are like two sides of a leaf.
where there is light, there is bound to be shadows. Even if the sun falls on the petals, there will be shadows, let alone life.
American writer O. Henry told a story in his novel The Last Leaf: In the ward, a dying patient saw a tree outside the window, and the leaves fell off one by one in the autumn wind. The patient looked at the rustling leaves in front of him, and his body went from bad to worse. She said, "When all the leaves are gone, I will die." When an old painter learned about it, he painted a leaf with green veins and hung it on the branch with a colored pen. The last leaf never fell off. The patient miraculously survived because of the green in his life.
the light needs to be found by yourself, and the shadow can only be dispelled by the light.
If your heart is full of light, you will feel warm and happy; If your heart is covered with shadows, you will feel cold and depressed.
Lin Yutang once said, "Facing the sunshine, the shadow is always behind you." It is inevitable to encounter hardships and hardships in life. Don't worry about these shadows. If you encounter setbacks and difficulties in life, you will be discouraged and wait for death, then you will lose your firm will and belief. The best way to get rid of the gloomy shadow in the mind is to find the light and get close to it, so as to be happy and successful.
Misfortune and twists and turns in life are hard to avoid. If we think from another angle, everything will be different. Just as we see two sides of a leaf, the side that absorbs the sunshine will make you feel full of vitality, and the side that faces away from the sunshine will make you feel lifeless.
Only when people have experienced rich social life experience can they understand that there are laughter and tears, wealth and poverty, beauty and ugliness in this world, and what they see depends entirely on their attitude towards life.
when we open our palms, we will find that the palm facing upwards is full of bright sunshine.
Light and shadow make a beautiful flower
A coin has two sides; A rose has beautiful petals, but also a whirling shadow; Since there is exposure to the sun, there will be a cool night; Since there are extremely cold winters, there will be blooming plum blossoms. As Shelley wrote: If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
Tolstoy said, "All changes, charms and beauty in life are made up of light and shadow." That beauty, that charm is blooming between light and shadow.
I can't forget Bingdilian, Romeo and Juliet, who are in full bloom in the barren land. Love is a bright petal that grows on the edge of a precipice. If you want to pick it, you must be brave and regretless. Romeo and Juliet sacrificed their lives for the beauty and sweetness of love. That shadow is so sad, feud and enmity buried the flame of love. Only with the struggle of death can the family's hatred be dispelled? Why does Shakespeare shine so far? Because it permeates the rational judgment of survival or destruction. Light and shadow appear from time to time to see if they show beautiful charm.
The German poet Schiller said, "True love is hopeless!" Does the bright fire have to illuminate the shadow to show the infinity of life? God said, yes.
Beautiful, living in the branches of light and shadow, so Baodai was brewed, and the lamps in the market in the sky were brewed.
When we saw the sinking of Titanic, we also saw the life-and-death love between Jack and Rose, and the kindness and light of letting women and children go first. When we saw the light of Martin Luther King's waving speech "I Have a Dream", we also saw the shadow of an evil bullet penetrating the black man's head; When we saw Marx shouting for the world and calling for light, and saw his little daughter die, he didn't have two pounds to bury her, but it didn't affect Marx's persistent will at all. This is the dialectics of light and shadow.
As Marx said, "A man should learn to walk and wrestle, and only after wrestling can he learn to walk." On the road of life, there must be a bright pursuit, and there must be loneliness, loneliness, trauma and pain as companions. What should we do? Is to overcome the shadow? Or is it defeated by the shadow? This is a life choice.
I suddenly remembered what Zhang Wei said: "A real writer should be a sailor by nature. This reminds us of Melville, who wrote Moby Dick, and Mark Twain, who fought on the Mississippi River. Both of them had been sailors and struggled in the torrent of life all their lives. Long wandering, boundless ocean or long river, underwater sound, surging, distress and survival. " The beauty of life will always blend in light and shadow, which is inseparable.
A cat that can catch mice is not a good cat (composition on the same topic in the college entrance examination)
Author: Confucian
Since the concept of "catching mice is a good cat regardless of white cats and black cats" was stolen, the debate between white cats and black cats has never stopped. The relationship between cat and mouse, which was originally very simple, suddenly became very unusual when a fish was caught in the middle, and the turbid water became more and more complicated with time.