What humans choose is imperfect and inadequate. So we must accept this imperfection, because any choice you make must be imperfect, and any choice you make must be insufficient. We have to accept our limitations, so if you choose, don’t regret it. Although you will definitely regret it, because any choice will encounter setbacks. When you encounter setbacks, you will wonder if another choice would have been better?

People have three ways of thinking when facing setbacks. The first way of thinking is to give up. I will give up as soon as I encounter setbacks. It is said that there is a very popular saying called? Giving up makes me happy. What is the second process? The second process is to cheer up. But many times you will find that giving up and cheering up are still two sides of the same coin. Because many times cheering up is just meaningless cheering up. Many times cheering up is nothing more than preparing for the next time you give up. So we can neither give up nor cheer up for granted; we need to think, and when we face setbacks, we need to think, although this kind of thinking may not necessarily lead to a fully rational conclusion.

I remember when I was in middle school, I had to quote famous quotes every time I wrote my essay. Many people teased me and said, Teacher Luo, why do you like to quote famous quotes so much? Is it because my stomach is empty? Really, because I don’t have enough food, I can only use quotes from famous people to express what I want to say but can’t say. At that time, Sima Qian's "Book of Reporting to Ren An" was often quoted. Can everyone recite it to me? King Gai Wen performed the Book of Changes, Zhong Nie performed the Spring and Autumn Period, Qu Yuan was exiled and returned to Li Sao, Zuo Qiu lost his sight and learned the Mandarin language... All these people were frustrated and could not understand the way. Those who are recounting the past and thinking about the future, have you noticed that in all these setbacks, when you are frustrated, you are not simply giving up, nor are you simply cheering up? What are you doing? If you want to understand the changes in the realm of heaven and man through the past and present, you need to think from the perspective of the overall human experience. Where should you go? Do your pain and frustrations have independent value? Can your frustrations and your pain be inspired by the experiences of those who have gone before you? Can you connect your pain and frustrations to the computer of the overall human experience and let the current of the overall human experience activate you? Do your frustrations really have independent value? Is your frustration really that unique to the overall human experience? Not necessarily.

Although we say that the Tao may be Tao, but if you can touch the Tao of Heaven because of your setbacks, then it is okay to hear the Tao in the morning and die in the evening. Because you have touched the sum of human experience, and standing on the accumulation of human experience, you can have a higher perspective to study the relationship between heaven and man, and connect the past and the present. This is why we have to look at everything around us based on the overall experience of our predecessors. Why should we read more? Only by reading more can you get out of our individual narrow-mindedness and our individual frustrations.