What is true success? For this question, different people in ancient times had different answers.
For those who are generals, being able to fight on the battlefield, defend the home and defend the country, and seal the wolf to live in Xu is success; for scholars, the lifelong wish must be the title of the gold list, be an official, and be a minister of worship. success.
But in contemporary society, the answer to this question has become similar. When you ask a person what success is, he will most likely tell you that he can afford to drive a luxury car, live in a luxury house, and make more money.
However, is this really a success?
In order to be able to afford a better car, to afford a house, and to make more money, people have to work harder and even exchange their health for money.
In the news, we can often see sudden death from work at a young age, sudden death from excessive drinking, or terminal illness at the time of youth.
Use the most precious health in exchange for material enrichment. Is it more appropriate to put the cart before the horse and count as a failure?
Actually, overdrawing one's life and exchanging health for things outside the body is not a phenomenon unique to contemporary society. This phenomenon has existed since ancient times. For this kind of upside-down behavior, in the Warring States period in 2000 years, some people have already put forward its mistakes. In the " Lvshi Chunqiu·Meng Chunqiu·Bonsheng" compiled by Lu Buwei, there is a passage:
"Things are also, so the nourishment of sex is also not the reason for sex. People in this world are confused Most of them are sexual nourishment, but you don’t know the weight. If you don’t know the weight, the heavy will be light, and the light will be heavy. If this is the case, you will be invincible in every move."
This passage translates into vernacular meaning: foreign objects Is used to support life,Life should not be consumed to pursue it. However, most of the confused people in the world are losing their lives in pursuit of foreign objects. This practice is called . I don’t know the importance, but the important is regarded as secondary, but the secondary is regarded as important. Doing this will fail no matter what you do.
In this passage, Lu Buwei uses "I don't know the importance" to describe people's inability to distinguish the primary and secondary relationship between life and health and other things, and wants to use this to warn the world.
The warning words of the ancient sages should have been remembered by people and used to reflect on them. However, after more than two thousand years, this situation has not disappeared, but has become more common.
With the improvement of social living standards and the development of science and technology, people's pursuit of material has also gone further. From the pursuit of food and clothing, to the pursuit of the delicacies of mountains and seas; from ordinary clothing to high-end luxury goods; from having a place to live in a higher-end community; from having a car to driving to the pursuit of a more luxurious car.
In order to achieve these pursuits, more and more people spend their time and health in exchange for more money at the expense of working overtime day and night. In the eyes of these people, material sufficiency is what is really necessary. It seems that without better materials, one can't live.
However, blindly pursuing material abundance and ignoring the importance of health, in the end only regret.
When a person has been struggling for 20 or 30 years, when he reaches middle age, he has worked hard for his career, has a happy family, and has the success that outsiders look like. However, behind the invisible to outsiders is the insomnia all night and all night, the life of the sun and the moon turned upside down. The decline of immunity makes the body more vulnerable to diseases. If he is terminally ill, then everything he has fought for will become a passing moment. Only fighting, but not enjoying everything you get, is it really worth it?
Some people say that we are in a different era, and the knowledge of the past is no longer applicable to the status quo. But when we zoom in,After the long river of history, we will find that some things are not unique to our time, but have already existed.
And the words recorded by ancient sages can still guide our current lives. And this passage of Lu Buwei is also the most reasonable saying that guides our lives.
distinguishes the primary and secondary relationship of various things in life. On the basis of putting health first, pursue what you want, so that what you get is true success.
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