Li Xueqin said: Only making money is the source of security and happiness.
Many people will empathize with this sentence and agree with it. Li Xueqin's words also reflect that we are in an era of lack of emotions. Otherwise, so many people would not have expressed inexplicable praise for this sentence.
The pursuit of life is nothing more than two things: seeking money and seeking love. seeking money is to meet the most basic material needs, while seeking love is to meet more advanced spiritual and emotional needs.
People who can achieve both material satisfaction and spiritual satisfaction are undoubtedly winners in life and also a measure of whether life is happy. In the past era, people advocated sincere feelings, and their pursuit of the spiritual world is higher than material pursuit. Character accounts for a considerable proportion of the criteria for judging whether a person is successful, even higher than their ability to obtain material. With the erosion of the economic tide, when everything is materialized, the amount of means of production becomes the standard for judging whether a person is successful. In short, whoever has money is a successful person.
When values have fundamentally changed, people's need for emotions is weakened. Because of the excessive pursuit of material things, people's emotional investment is materialized, making it easy for people to "lose". Many times, the true feelings you give are always impossible to beat the house, car, and money. Emotional investment lacks security due to too much uncertainty. People no longer believe in emotions, and even tend to be scared of talking about them.
When the people of the whole country are engaged in the economy, but you are sad about love, it is somewhat inappropriate, right?
Emotional indifference, the crisis of trust between people is the most powerless reality in the context of this era. The time and energy required to pursue emotional satisfaction, and all the efforts to do it often do not get the result they deserve. It is difficult to make people feel safe because of its great uncertainty. In comparison, the certainty of making money is stronger. If you work hard and you give your all, you will always have equivalent returns and benefits. This is much more stable, more down-to-earth, and more realistic than emotional investment.
The person you work hard to love may leave you, you may lose the other person, but the money you earn from working hard is really put into your pocket. You can dominate at will, but the feelings are different, and it is not transferred by your will.
When a person cannot get the emotions he wants in life, or is hurt by love, he often transfers his enthusiasm for life to his career and gains a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction in his career.
Our sense of happiness often comes from the ability to control our own lives. This ability to control can make us feel superior and have the ability to have wealth. It is easier for us to get others' affirmation and praise for us than emotions. However, getting wealth through work can only meet part of human needs, because work is mechanical, cold, and has no emotional response or emotional value. Human beings themselves are very complex organisms that require communication, understanding and response.
Li Xueqin said that "only making money is the source of security and happiness" and remove the word "only" and you can put it all in the world. In addition to money, we need love more, and the ultimate expression of love often depends on material to achieve it. The two should be in a complementary relationship, rather than either one or the other.
Only those who lack emotions or do not have the courage to love will regard making money as the only goal of life, even if you are hurt by love. There are many people worthy of love and many people who love you. Why lose the whole forest for a tree?
