If you can’t change the environment, change yourself

Although we can’t change the world, we have to change ourselves and face it all with love and wisdom.

Tolstoy said: "There are only two kinds of people in the world: one is a waiter and the other is a doer. Most people want to change the world, but no one wants to change themselves." To change the status quo, you have to change yourself. To change yourself, you must change your perspective. All achievements start from the correct concept. A series of failures also start from wrong concepts. To adapt to society and adapt to changes, you must change yourself.

Plato told his disciples that he could move mountains, so they asked for advice one after another. Plato smiled and said: "It's very simple. If the mountain can't be reached, I will go there." The disciples couldn't help but be dumbfounded.

There is no magic in moving mountains in the world. The only secret that can move mountains is: if the mountain cannot come over, I will go over. In the same way, if people cannot change the environment, then they must change themselves.

After Columbus discovered the American continent, Europeans continued to immigrate to the Americas. In order to obtain enough food, Europeans planted a large number of apple trees in the Americas. However, in the mid-19th century, apple production in the United States was greatly reduced due to the emergence of a new pest—the apple maggot fly. At first, people thought the pests were brought over from Europe. Later, after research, it was discovered that the apple maggot fly evolved from a local species called hawthorn fly. Due to the large-scale planting of apple trees, many local hawthorn trees were cut down. In order to adapt to this situation, the hawthorn flies changed their living habits and began to eat apples. In less than 100 years, the hawthorn fly evolved into a new pest.

The hawthorn fly does not hesitate to change its habits in order to adapt to the environment. The ability of living things to adapt to the environment is admirable, but how do people adapt to the environment?

A black child guards oak barrels at his father's winery. Every morning, he wiped the barrels clean with a rag and arranged them neatly in rows. What makes him angry is that often overnight, the wind blows his neatly arranged barrels east and west.

The little boy cried aggrievedly. The father touched the boy's head and said: "My child, don't be sad, we can find a way to conquer the wind."

So the boy wiped away his tears and sat by the barrel, thinking and thinking. After thinking for a long time, he finally Thinking of a way, he went to the well to pick up buckets of clean water, and then poured them into the empty oak barrels. Then he went home uneasily to sleep.

The next day, just after dawn, the little boy got up in a hurry. He ran to the place where the barrels were placed and took a look. The oak barrels were arranged neatly one by one, and none of them was blown over by the wind. , and none of them were blown away by the wind. The little boy smiled happily and said to his father: "If you want the barrel not to be blown over by the wind, you must increase the weight of the barrel." The boy's father smiled approvingly.

Yes, we may not be able to change the wind, nor many things in this world and society, but we can change ourselves and add weight to ourselves so that we can adapt to changes and not be defeated.

In the basement of Westminster Abbey, the tombstone of an Anglican bishop should have written this passage: When I was young and free, my imagination had no limitations, and I dreamed of changing the world. When I became mature and wise, I found that it was impossible to change the world, so I set my sights a little short-sighted, and just changed my country! But it seems my country is also something I can't change. When I reached my twilight years, in a last ditch effort, I decided to change only my family and those close to me - but alas! They don't accept change at all. Now, as I lie on my deathbed, I suddenly realize: If I had only changed myself first, then by example I would have changed my family. Then, with their inspiration and encouragement, I might be able to change my country. Next time, who knows, maybe I can change the whole world.

Life is like water, people can only adapt to the environment. If you can't change the environment, change yourself. Only in this way can we overcome more difficulties, overcome more setbacks, and realize ourselves. If you cannot see your own shortcomings and deficiencies, and just blame the environment for being unfavorable, and pin your hope of changing your situation on changing the environment, it is really futile. A good self can be summed up, transformed into your own opening remarks, in the basement of Westminster Abbey. . .

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