Only when you earn money, have fame and fortune, have a stable job, and buy a garage, can you be respected, be secure, feel at ease, and do whatever you want. In fact, these are just fantasies.
The last words of a president are popular on the Internet. I don't know if it's true or false. But I feel good: as the president of a Fortune 500 company, I used to be all-powerful and invincible in the business world. In the eyes of others, my life is certainly a model of success. But apart from work, I don't have much fun, and in the end, wealth has become a habit for me, just like my fat body-it's all made up of superfluous things.
At this moment, in my hospital bed, I frequently recall my own life and find that all the social fame and wealth that once made me feel infinitely proud have become dim and meaningless in the face of the coming death.
I also asked myself many times in the middle of the night that if everything in my life had been revalued by death and had lost its value, what would I want most now, that is, what the money and reputation of my life had failed to give me? Is there any?
In the dark, I looked at the green light and squeak of the metal testing instruments, and seemed to feel the warm breath of death coming closer to me.
Now I understand that as long as you have enough wealth in your life, you should pursue other things that have nothing to do with wealth, which should be more important, maybe emotion, maybe art, maybe just a childhood dream.
The endless pursuit of wealth will only make people greedy and boring and become a sick monster-just like the portrayal of my life.
When God created man, he gave us rich senses so that we could feel the love he presupposed in the hearts of all people, not the illusion brought by wealth.
I can't take away all the wealth I won in my life. what I can take away is the pure emotion precipitated in my memory and the love and emotion that have nothing to do with material things. They cannot be denied and will not disappear by themselves. They are the real wealth of life.
"the fact that wealth has become a habit to me" is not only the words of successful people, but also the goal that ordinary people dream of pursuing.
Maybe after 10 or 20 years, you will also feel that what you once dreamed of has become a habit. It's like the 500-minute phone bill that doesn't run out every month, because you don't know who to call and you don't want to.
The situation has changed, and you can no longer experience happiness when you have what you once had.
Every situation we are in has its strengths and weaknesses, resources and weaknesses. When we were young, we had childlike innocence but no money. When we were in college, we had passion but no money. After graduation, we had ideas but no money. When we were rich, we suddenly found that there was nothing left. When people get old, they don't want to do anything.
Then regret in my twilight years: why don't I do these things when I have no money? Why let sense of security get in the way of what I want to do.
I think situation is more important than money and fame, and it is also more important than sense of security. The situation is the environment we are in at the moment, including our age, mindset, friends, and resources. These are the factors that limit one's happiness, not money or fame and fortune. However, we always stare at what we don't have and try our best to consume what we already have. It feels like: it took five thousand soldiers to take down a mountain and suddenly found that there was nothing but that it looked very high.
In "for Learning", there is such a story: there are two monks in Shu: one is poor, the other is rich. The poor said to the rich, "what about the South China Sea where I want to be?" The rich man said, "Why do you rely on it?" Mencius said, 'one bottle and one bowl is enough for me. " The rich man said, "I have been wanting to buy a boat for several years, but I have not been able to buy a boat." Why do you rely on it? " Next year, the poor will return from the South China Sea to the rich, while the rich will be ashamed.
When you have enough food to do it, you will find that you didn't do it at the right age. When you have it all, you find that you can't move your legs, you don't want to. After all, it is not as happy as "one bottle, one bowl".
The so-called barefoot is not afraid to wear shoes, it may be that there is no easier to be happy.
The so-called contentment is to use what you have to do what you should do at your age and what you can still want to do. Instead of waiting for all the resources to be available.
Feeling: things outside the body always hold us back, always make our eyes blurred, and miss the most precious and beautiful things in life. But people are always like this, before a certain time, do not experience some of the world, can not jump out of that circle, can not jump out of that pattern, and finally regret. (author: Xiao Fan Zi)
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