I want to write a reduced life, but I don’t know where to start. The theme was inspired by a book by Zhou Guoping. He said: Reduction seems to be a destiny, love is reduced to sex, friendship is reduced to communication and public relations, reading and thinking is reduced to wat

I want to write a reduced life, but I don’t know where to start. This theme was inspired by a book by Zhou Guoping . He said: Reduction seems to be a destiny, love is reduced to sex, friendship is reduced to communication and public relations, reading and thinking is reduced to watching TV, nature is reduced to indoor scenery in luxury hotels, and attachment to land is reduced to tourism. All spiritual value has been reduced to practical value, and eternal nostalgia and pursuit have been reduced to the current functional enjoyment. I chewed carefully what he said and found that a large number of people in this society did live a reduced life as he said.

In today's fast-paced society, everyone quickly adjusts their pace of life in order to catch up with the pace of the times. In such a fierce competition, it is difficult for us to slow down and enjoy a slow-paced life. Most people have to live a reduced life. The efficiency of life has been greatly improved, but people are becoming more and more difficult to be happy. Take me personally as an example. I do have a feeling in my daily life: I don’t have time to live, don’t have time to enjoy, and don’t have time to slow down. I am indeed a member of my life, and for the foreseeable time, I cannot change this state of life at all. I don’t know if this is my sorrow or the sorrow of this society.

What is the life without reduction? Judging from my not-so-rich life experience, I think my childhood life has not been reduced. In my childhood, everyone was very poor, eating the same food, doing the same job, and living the same life, without competition, and every family lived a slow-paced life. At that time, adults followed the changes of the seasons and planted spring and harvested in autumn. The days went very slowly, so there was no need to worry. Just work with the changes in the weather. At that time, children did not have electronic devices or high-end toys. The games they could play were to jump rubber bands with their friends , , kick shuttlecock , and play hide and seek.

The four seasons of childhood were particularly distinct. Spring was sowing, summer was taking care of, autumn was harvesting, and winter was the most leisurely time of the year. At that time, my favorite thing was that the whole family worked in the fields together. Although the division of labor was different, they had common happiness. The fragrance of the soil, the fragrance of plants, the chirping of insects, the gurgling water, the falling leaves, and the fruits are all the true appearance of nature. People at that time were at ease, joy and warm in their hearts, because they had a heavy earth as their support and colorful nature as their nourishment.

children today may never be able to have the experience I had before, and they will never be able to perceive the heavy and natural colorfulness of the earth. Maybe their childhood is also very happy, and their happiness is also very simple. However, in their memories, there is more of a monotonous experience surrounded by technology and covered by games. The way they know the world comes from things that are artificially shaped like electronic devices, high-end toys, etc. They rarely get in touch with nature, and the opportunity to get in touch with nature is nothing more than the scenery you see from your trip on weekends or holidays. They can no longer see how plants grow, how fruits expand, how insects jump, and how streams flow; they can never feel the satisfaction of working on the earth and harvesting from the earth; they can no longer imagine the way the grains return to the warehouse in winter, the whole family sits by the stove and eats roasted sweet potatoes and chats.

When children grow up, they may face a colder, isolated and indifferent world. There is no mutual assistance between neighbors, no mutual feelings between childhood sweethearts, and no relatives and friends. They are more in the hard shell made of reinforced concrete, striving to pursue the pace of the times and working hard for a better life. They can no longer know what nature is, what is the place where human beings originate , and what is the spiritual source that makes their hearts rich. They may live a very superior life, have good material conditions, enjoy the cutting-edge technology of this era, and have an extremely convenient life, but they can no longer slow down and can no longer feel the happiness brought by slow pace.How to resolve their loneliness? Will they not find true happiness? Reduced life does improve efficiency, but who can bear the responsibility for collective spiritual deprivation?

I think it is better to eat material pain than to eat spiritual pain. There is still a way to solve material pain, but spiritual pain is difficult to eliminate. Nowadays, the probability of suffering from mental illness is getting higher and higher, which all comes from a reduced life. People are more likely to lose themselves when pursuing too high-level goals. Instead, they stand on the rural land, and watch spring goes and autumn comes, sunsets, and plant growth are more at ease. In the past, many people advocated education and longed for knowledge, and wanted to go to the outside world; now, more and more people returned from cities to rural areas, chose a remote rural area, planted a piece of fruits and vegetables, watched the flowers bloom and fall in the courtyard, and sat watching the clouds rolling and unfolding in the sky. They strive to return to nature, get close to the earth, slow down the pace of life, and try to make up for the missing part of their lives.

In the eyes of many people, they seem to be wasting time, romantic life, and doing things that have no meaning. In fact, only meaningless and purposeless will make them feel happy, because they are tired and tired in the life of pursuing meaning and goals. Isn’t this true happiness to be able to slow down, enjoy the gifts of nature, and enjoy the fruits of your own labor?

short videos are popular, my favorite type is actually rural life. There are people in this world who are living the life I yearn for. Should I feel comforted or sad? Since you can't get it, just feast your eyes. Looking at them from time to time can also be regarded as a short-term redemption for reducing your life. The problem that cannot be solved is the fact. Since you cannot change the reduced life, you might as well find happiness in it. Don’t forget that in a reduced life, you must find spiritual happiness. If the spiritual abundance is completely defeated by the reduced reality, then how boring life will be.