-reading Zeng Guofan's letters.
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Since I am impressed by Zeng Guofan's letter, let's talk about this Zeng Guofan's letter in my hand. I bought this book in high school and haven't finished reading it. But there is only a small part left, which will be completed soon in the steady progress.
Why haven't you finished reading it after buying it for so many years? I read a few articles at the earliest, and I felt what was going on. My parents are short, rambling and messy. So I haven't finished reading it yet. Until now, I have accumulated so much enthusiasm for reading Zeng Guofan that I really read it.
In this process, the understanding gradually deepened, and a little understanding was gained. What is awakening? That is, life is just ordinary.
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Why do you feel this way? I just don't know if you are reading some biographies of celebrities, articles on success (Zeng Guofan is a hot topic in success), or reading some stories (such as Be Good and Touch Your Head written by Da Bing), will you think that other people's lives are rich and colorful, and your own life is too ordinary?
In fact, here, there is a focus, which is a concentrated display of all kinds of life; Concentration is the concentrated expression of life; There are words, and words have certain rendering power. With so many influences, you will have an illusion that your life is simply a failure.
Of course, these written lives do have something to learn, which is in line with our fantasy, about success, about poetry and distance.
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So when I went back to Zeng Guofan, I also saw that someone expressed the same feelings as me, that is, there were too many useless words in Zeng Guofan's letters and Zeng Guofan's diaries, so you would sort them out and sort out the "useful" parts in these two books, which were easy to read and wonderful, and hit the floor with great scale.
But this gives us an illusion that Zeng Guofan's life is really awesome. With so many famous sayings, let's make various answers and build a successful god. Do you feel that Zeng Guofan's life is like beating chicken blood, and he is passionate and brave every day.
However, Zeng Guofan's real life is also living in "nonsense". He has to face weddings, funerals, property distribution, the education of his brothers, sons and nephews, and even consider buying rapeseed to return to his family. ......
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Also, we will encounter such a situation. For example, watching "Touching China" will make our noses sour and our faces burst into tears. Seeing father's love and mother's love written on TV or in articles is also extremely emotional. But? Think about going back to your real life. Your relationship with your parents and children should be much more prosaic. This is the real life. Far less intense.
"The friendship between gentlemen is as light as water, and the friendship between villains is as sweet as water." In my shallow knowledge, being as light as water is the normal state of life. That kind of brother has ups and downs every day, but he is a bit pretentious. Of course, love is naturally strong when it is real, but it has always been so strong and it is also a very tiring life.
So, life is just ordinary. Don't feel that there is nothing commendable in your life. Think about it. There must be something shining in your life.
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There is a saying in the west that "there is no hero in the eyes of servants." Why do you say that? Even if we return to our daily life, the hero in the eyes of ordinary people is just a flesh-and-blood person. It is our worship and imagination that creates a bright and blind image.
Some people say that success is a survivor effect, and we can only see the winners who survive in the end. Therefore, if we want to find success from these people and try to find some shortcuts in life, we will actually go astray. Of course, there must be something we can learn from successful people, but we can't copy and paste other people's lives.
Life is much more real. You must constantly make your own choices in life. You can look at your life. This is the true face of life, and this is the truth of your own experience.
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We always think that we have a splendid life. We always think that there is a life we want, and we are eager to find it. It is better to think of the present life as its true colors for the distress of the past and the anxiety of the future we want to pursue.
So from another perspective, the present life is your most authentic experience. Of course, we should move on, but don't forget the real life. We didn't really live to success, but lived a seemingly ordinary life at present.
It is true that life is only ordinary and dull. Not that life is like a stagnant pool, but that we should see the real life, don't deny our own life, and don't envy others' lives.
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Life is not a bittersweet bombing, it is just a concentrated seasoning package; Life is like boiled water most of the time, bland, but inseparable.