What limits your imagination?

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Some time ago, there was a popular saying on the Internet:

Poverty limits your imagination.

This sentence sounds a little strange, but it hit the nail on the head.

In the TV series "extrasensory Hunt", there is a black boy in Africa whose hometown is very poor.

The biggest problem that people face every day is survival.

Clean water, abundant food, and medicine for diseases. These are the things they need most.

The black boy is a taxi driver, and one day he earned his first bucket of gold by his car.

He was happy to spend the money on medicine and a TV set.

People in the outside world do not understand why the money should be spent on luxury accessories such as televisions.

The black boy told everyone:

Food and water may make me eat and drink for a while, but the TV makes me go abroad.

Our life is sometimes like a deep well, and we are the most pitiful frogs in the well.

We used to think we saw the whole world.

It was not until Columbus's voyage, the emergence of television, and the invention of the Internet that we really saw the whole world.

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Now, we think that no one can limit our sky anymore.

However, with the development of human society, we have trapped ourselves again.

Wechat moments can be limited to only follow the official account that you like.

Weibo news can be pushed according to your personal preferences, focusing only on the entertainment topics you like or want to see.

The moment we clicked on the limit brought us back to that deep well.

We only look at what we want to see every day, and we only focus on our circle of friends where birds of a feather flock together.

I thought this was the state of life of all people.

So in life, the people who really limit our imagination are ourselves.

This kind of thinking is very much like the idea of sitting in a well and watching the sky.

Some time ago, a girl in Yueqing was killed by the driver for hitchhiking, when everyone was in grief.

But I heard something like this:

Why hitch a ride? isn't it good to spend more money on express and chauffeured cars?

People who make such remarks have really lived in their moments for too long.

Some people in Daliang Mountain can't afford to go to school, and some people have lived in that famous garbage mountain all their lives.

For us, these news only satisfy our curiosity.

But what we don't know is how huge the number is.

The circle of life can be deceptive, and the spectacle we don't see every day is the norm that many people see every day.

Poverty limits their imagination, and our circle of friends turns us back into frogs in the well.

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Whenever there are events in the hot news that are different from our own lives, our attitude is always incomprehensible.

Do not understand why this happened to him, do not understand why he had such a choice.

Others do not understand with arrogance and contempt.

In ancient times, the people of Emperor Huidi of Jin had no corn to satisfy their hunger, so why not eat minced meat?

Today, there are Internet sprinklers who live like this, why not die? I don't understand.

It's a little kind to be able to ask why he doesn't eat minced meat.

In the wonderful work, Tsai Kang-yong once explained the word ignorance like this:

Stupid means stupid, and it's okay to be called stupid. Ignorance means not knowing, and it hurts when you are scolded for being stupid, because ignorance means that you are stupid and do not know it.

It is a terrible thing to be trapped in one's own knowledge without knowing it, just like being scolded for being stupid.

In Louis C. On K's talk show, he once said:

A young man in his twenties with three PHD degrees is far less intelligent than a 70-year-old man.

Because a 70-year-old man has lived for nearly a century.

The ups and downs of the world he has seen and the ups and downs of life he has experienced are unimaginable to young people.

He fought in World War II and saw how death plundered human lives.

He also watched his country's President Nixon resign from his post and fly away.

He witnessed innumerable history with his eyes.

While a young man in his twenties is buried in academic research, he has never seen the world.

The world is so big that there are many strange people, things and cultures that you will never understand in your life.

The world is also very small, small enough to see the whole world at a glance.

So please don't rush to deny all the values that are different from you, because your established values may not be comprehensive and will change slowly.