Tolstoy said: all the changes, charms and beauty in life are made up of light and shadow. This statement makes sense. It is a summary after experiencing twists and turns and feeling life. In fact, he told us that there is no so-called smooth sailing in the world, some are rainbows seen after clearing the fog, some are getting up after falling, and some are mature and sophisticated after repeated setbacks. And this constitutes our rich life. Life without ups and downs is monotonous and meaningless.
If Helen Keller hadn't been blind since she was a child, she wouldn't be so eager for light, and she wouldn't have written that touching article: If I had three days of light. Light is out of reach for her, and the long darkness has not made her lose her yearning for light. She constantly cultivated her knowledge and understanding of the world in the dark and gradually planted bright seeds for herself in the dark world. Physical defects did not make her a person abandoned by life, but made her a strong person and a master of fate. The shadow in her life has become the most glorious part of her life, which has turned her from a hopeless disabled person into a successful person with healthy and beautiful mind. If we take the setbacks in her life, the despair and failure that ordinary people can't understand as a shadow, then we will not be troubled by the shadow for a long time and believe in the future, which will constitute her bright road.
A person who tries to live a smooth life is doomed to experience twists and turns. Fate is the same for everyone. From a secular point of view, the rich children around us may be richer than your family and have more wealth to rely on than you, but the rich also have the same troubles as the rich. They are always worried that so much property will be used up sooner or later, in case it is robbed. Because everything is so smooth, they often forget to care about the people around them and do something for an era and a country in their rich and luxurious lives. Therefore, the selfishness and low morality of the rich second generation have also become the focus of social attention. Without the struggle experience of their peers, whether they can withstand the test of future life when they grow up in a greenhouse has become the concern of their parents and even themselves. These over-proud, sleek rich second generation, if allowed to pamper and grow up without frustration education, will inevitably fall into a situation of doing nothing and doing nothing.
There is a good song: failed, we can choose to start again. This applies to everyone. Because everyone can't guarantee that everything will go smoothly in his life, especially in youth, when we go to the society and need to face everything independently and work hard on our own, we should realize that setbacks may happen at any time, but we just need to believe that failure is a successful mother and give us experience and courage to deal with difficulties in the future. What can we fear?
People who have experienced hardships will become the wealth of their lives, enrich their life experiences, and thus add rich music to their lives. People like that are always optimistic about everything. The so-called "look at the clouds and clouds, see the flowers bloom and fall" is the truth. Bitterness and pleasure in life, like shadow and light, are two sides of the same coin. We see hope because of the light, and see our own gap because of shadows, failures and setbacks, so as to find the reason to move on. Therefore, our route is advancing in twists and turns. We are like sailors who constantly adjust their course, but the goal is to reach the other side successfully. People can't be smooth sailing all their lives, but shadows won't hang over us all their lives, so we should choose to sing the light eagerly and face the shadows bravely!
Perfect front and back
There is such a story. A child waded through mountains and rivers in search of happiness, but he couldn't find it for a long time. When he was very depressed, he met a fairy. The fairy asked him why he was so sad. The child told the fairy that he had been looking for happiness, but he never found it. The fairy smiled and said, don't you find that you have gained something along the way? You already know what misfortune is. Isn't that happiness?
It turns out that I have tasted misfortune and found happiness. Happiness is the sense of gain, satisfaction and personal experience when you really experience absolute misfortune.
In the journey of life, we often pursue perfection, hoping to stay away from negative things and only touch and harvest positive things, always thinking that negative things are unnecessary at all. It should be noted that in the process of pursuing perfection, we will encounter many bumps, and it is precisely because of the flatness we hope in the thorns that it is particularly flat.
We praise light only because we have suffered from darkness.
Because of the light, the shadow becomes hopeful, and because of the shadow, the light is more dazzling. All perfection, harmony, charm and change in this world are composed of two opposing sides.
There is a children's song "Plant the Sun", which expresses a beautiful and naive wish: I hope to plant the sun, plant the next sun and bear many suns. I hope the sun will be hung in the Antarctic and the Arctic Ocean at night, so that the whole world will be bright. Don't you know what a terrible thing it would be if this wish came true? Day and night, cold and hot, these opposite natural phenomena constitute the perfect law. We feel safer because there is day and night. Because of the night, the day has become a new beginning of everything. How boring our life will be if day and night are mixed together? Although the cold in the Arctic and Antarctic is daunting, it is also a happy paradise for many hardy animals. Some time ago, I saw a picture. Due to global warming, the living environment of many polar bears has been challenged. In the picture, the poor bear struggles on the melting ice, which makes people complain.
In short, absolute perfection does not exist, just like absolute darkness, everything is made up of positive and negative sides, and the best is nothing more than that, just like Tolstoy's famous saying that all changes in life, all charm and all beauty are made up of light and shadow. Only by knowing how to appreciate defects can we truly appreciate beauty; It is precisely because of the beautiful experience that we can better appreciate the shortcomings. In this way, positive and negative sides, build a perfect life.
Colorful light and shadow, the song of life
What is light? Did the sun give the world endless brilliance? Is it the yearning of ancient and modern politicians for the cause of opening up? Or your longing for a better life? Perhaps, light can be transformed into different realms in everyone's mind, but it is also the common pursuit that all sentient beings yearn for, yearn for, pay for and strive for. Light always represents beauty, and the world is dazzling because of its light, just like a gorgeous stage and colorful neon lights in the city. So, have you ever thought about the shadow behind the light?
Yes, light becomes light because there is a shadow behind it, so it is dazzling. Light and shadow are like a pair of twin sisters. Our journey of pursuing light is actually looking in the shadow, and the other end of the shadow must be light.
From shadow to light, it is the hardships and efforts we need to pay in our unremitting pursuit. Throughout the ages, how many successful politicians and scientific masters have never struggled in the process of striving for their ideals? In order to realize the light in their hearts, they are willing to be silent in the temporary darkness and endure material poverty and spiritual suffering. This may be what most people need to experience before they realize their ideals. Su Qin in the Warring States and Sun Jing in the Eastern Han Dynasty vividly demonstrated their efforts at the beginning of success, and now they are household names. Kuang Heng in the Western Han Dynasty was also constantly striving for self-improvement, stealing gloss from the wall and later becoming a learned Confucian scholar. In modern China, in order to save China from from the mire, liberate the suffering people, and usher in the dawn of new China, awakened people with lofty ideals gave their lives and shed their blood, and fought hard with feudal forces and foreign invaders. How much blood was paid before the heroic declaration of "China people stood up from now on" and the miracle China standing in the world today.
Shadow is a barrier to light that hinders our success. A person, even a country, will never have a smooth road to realize his ideals and success, and there will always be opposition and restraint from a few saboteurs. /kloc-At the beginning of the 6th century, Copernicus put forward Heliocentrism and wrote the great theory of celestial bodies. However, due to the pressure of the church, it was not published, which hindered the display of the truth. /kloc-At the end of 0/9th century, the reform led by Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao was to get rid of the shackles of the old forces and actively modernize China, but it was strongly opposed by the conservative forces led by Empress Dowager Cixi. The process of pursuing light is also a process of constantly breaking through various barriers.
Shadow is the weakness of our human nature, which is beyond our personal power. Everyone lives in society and is a part of it. The strength of an individual is limited, but the strength of the whole society is unlimited. As the old saying goes, "Teaching and learning have priority, and there is specialization in technical fields." Everyone has his own strengths and weaknesses. We not only need to appreciate and affirm a person's career success, but also need to tolerate other shortcomings of a person. Perhaps it is precisely because of its shortcomings that it can achieve its glory on the other hand.
Light and shadow complement each other. Light without shadow is just dazzling white light without vitality, so we don't know the existence of light. I suddenly remembered the kaleidoscope that brought me endless joy when I was a child, and I changed a lot with a slight turn. Yes, if there is no shadow, will it become endless colors?
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Light and shadow are like two sides of a leaf.
Where there is light, there must be shadows. Even if the sun falls on the petals, there will be shadows, let alone life.
American writer O Henry told a story in his novel The Last Leaf: In the ward, a dying patient saw a tree outside the window, and the leaves fell one by one in the autumn wind. The patient looked at the rustling leaves in front of him and his health went from bad to worse. She said, "When all the leaves are gone, I will die." When an old painter learned about it, he drew a leaf with green veins with a colored pen and hung it on a branch. The last leaf never fell. Because of the green color in life, the patient miraculously survived.
Light needs to be found by yourself, and shadows can only be dispelled by light.
If your heart is full of light, you will feel warm and happy; If your heart is covered with shadows, you will feel cold and depressed.
Lin Yutang once said, "In the face of sunshine, the shadow is always behind you." Life will inevitably encounter difficulties and hardships. Don't worry about these shadows. If you encounter setbacks and difficulties in life, you will be discouraged and wait for death, then you will lose your firm will and belief. The best way to get rid of the gloomy shadow in your mind is to find the light and get close to it, so as to achieve happiness and success.
Misfortunes and twists and turns in life are inevitable. If you think from another angle, everything will be different Just as we see two sides of a leaf, the side that absorbs sunlight will make you feel full of vitality, and the side that faces away from sunlight will make you feel lifeless.
Only when people have experienced rich social life experience can they understand that there are laughter and tears, wealth and poverty, beauty and ugliness in this world, and what they see depends entirely on their attitude towards life.
When we open our palms, we will find that the palms facing upwards are full of bright sunshine.