Many people are coming to the end of their lives, always regretting that they have wasted their lives, always assuming that if they were given another life, what would happen? I feel that I should not lose a lot, that there is still potential in life, but the addition is not enough. But life is a one-way trip, there is no regret medicine!
The "addition" of life is the pursuit of knowledge, success, wealth and fame. Life is like a container, we always want to put a lot of things in it to enrich our life. There's nothing wrong with that. The key is what you want to put in it and how to put it. There is an article called "The Big Rock of Life", which tells a truth:
First put a pile of fist-sized stones into the jar until they can't be put down any more. In fact, you can also put gravel to fill the gap between stones; You can also pour sand to fill the gap between gravel; You can even pour water into a glass bottle. ...
It can be seen that time is squeezed out and human potential is tapped out, so life needs addition. As long as you work hard, don't be complacent, don't feel inferior, set yourself a higher goal, and you can jump up and finish it. Faith, knowledge, skills and career are all big stones in life. Put them in your own bottle while you are young and strong, and then enjoy them leisurely. If this order is reversed, it will be too late to install big stones, and it can only be "the boss is sad."
But when you think about it, you've just been doing "addition" all your life. If you have money, you need beautiful women. There are luxury houses and famous cars; With status, but also a reputation; I am afraid that I have less things than others, and it is endless. How can I not be tired? The result may be disorder of life and mental breakdown. Unhappy. An essay "Cradle of Life" says: A man with a heavy life goes to see a wise man. The wise man put a basket on his shoulder, asked him to take a step to pick up a stone, put it in and see what he felt. When the man reached the finish line, he was too tired to get off. The wise man said, this is why you feel that life is heavy.
When we come to this world, everyone carries an empty basket. People's life is a process of constantly putting things into their own baskets. If you have it, you will think more, be insatiable and insatiable. Just to add, I'm sorry. The wise choice is to "subtract" life.
Stay away from fame and fortune, indifferent to success or failure, indifferent is subtraction. Laozi said: "The disaster is greater than dissatisfaction, and the blame is greater than desire." Contentment, temperance, gratitude, cherishing blessings and avoiding disasters mean that life needs subtraction.
Sean went through all kinds of hardships to help Liu Bang win the world and made great contributions to the world, but he resolutely resigned from his post, retired from the mountains and enjoyed his old age. Han Xin was also brilliant in military exploits, but he had high expectations for life. He struggled in officialdom and eventually lost his life. It can be seen that subtraction can eliminate disasters
Life is an arithmetic problem. A person's life is only 30,000 days, and if one day is missing, one day will be missing. Fame and wealth increase with time. But one day when these two curves cross *, there will be zero on the display screen of life, and 0 multiplied by any number is equal to 0. No amount can be taken away. This is the arithmetic formula of life. Cruel and true.
The addition of life gives us the light of wisdom, the strength of personality, the accumulation of wealth and the warmth of family, which makes life more abundant. Subtraction of life, for us, subtracts redundant material, extravagant desire, mental burden, environmental disturbance, reasonably arranges life choices, and makes life healthier.
Therefore, addition is a kind of growth and subtraction is a kind of maturity.
Addition and subtraction are the two wheels of life, and both are indispensable. One is the historical mission and social responsibility of "saving the world" of Confucius and Mencius, and the other is the inner cultivation and self-improvement of "conforming to nature" of Zhuangzi and Laozi. Add and subtract, two wheels turn together, and the journey of life will be infinite.