This is a famous sentence in the biography of Bao Puzi by Ge Hong, a Taoist priest in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
This sentence means that we should not just eat and drink all day, do nothing and not think and explore. Laziness will only fall short. There is no other way to succeed except hard work.
This reminds me of an experiment I saw the other day: someone divided a group of mice into two groups for experiments. A group of mice were kept in cages and had enough food and water for 24 hours. Let the mice eat, drink, sleep and live a carefree life.
Another group of mice regularly ration food and drinks. Eat on time every day, such as breakfast at 7: 00, lunch 12 and dinner at 6: 00. Diet rules, such as breakfast10g, lunch15g, dinner15g, no more, no less, not hungry, every day.
A year later, the first group of mice were fat and strong, lazy and motionless, eating and drinking enough every day, doing nothing and sleeping. The second group of mice were healthy and lively, jumping up and down and making noise.
Three years later, the first group of mice almost died, and the rest were lifeless. The second group of mice didn't die, but they were still alive and healthy. It was not until the sixth year that the mice slowly died of old age.
I asked the students, what is this?
A student immediately said that the first group of mice ate too well, so they died quickly. This is what the teacher said last week.
That's ... well, it's a reason!
Last week, when we were talking about "making peace with the Prime Minister", the students asked a question: Both emperors are dead, but why did Bian He live so long without death?
In front of the students, I can't explain Wang Di's three palaces and six hospitals well. The problem of excessive sex was originally the focus, but it is difficult to explain and can only be diluted. The diet problem was originally a small problem, but I focused on solving it. The king of a country has everything to eat, and his brain is full of fat, which is naturally bad for his health, so most of Wang Di's life is short.
This student is really flexible today. Of course. Is that the point? Obviously not. What I want to tell students is that a person, a young man, must have an ideal in life.
As the saying goes, salted fish should turn over. Besides, we are human beings, a living person. If a person has no ideal, he is no different from an animal, he is a walking corpse.
The first group of mice, because they have no ideal, sleep after eating and are carefree after waking up, so they have no source of life motivation and are too lazy to move. Without moving, all aspects of vital signs will decline and degenerate, aging faster and death faster.
In life, we also find that those souls rarely live long, at least in our cognition. Isn't it because they have no ideals and no motivation to live? It is also right for them to live short, otherwise it will be painful to live too long. If you die, you can get rid of it. Don't call me cruel, that's what happened!
The second group of mice lived longer, which makes sense. They have an ideal, probably the ideal is to eat enough. With ideals, there is spirit, and with spirit, there is motivation. So I jumped up and down uneasily. Jumping up and down, the body gets exercise and the body is naturally healthy. It is true that life lies in exercise.
Salted fish should turn over, mice can live a long life, we are human beings, shouldn't we have ideals?
No matter whether you are a big ideal or a small ideal, a long-term ideal or a short-term ideal, you must have an ideal.
With ideals, we have spiritual motivation, and then work towards your ideals. After all, one day you will realize your great ideal, and your life will be meaningful and brilliant!