How to live, is it worthwhile?
Wang Zengqi once said: "People must love something, just like the love of plants and trees for time." ”
I think that loving the person you want to love and doing what you like, although it is very hard, as long as you find what you love, tireless, passionate, with all the enthusiasm and perseverance, live a wonderful life.
In life, the turning back is all stories, and the turning is all hope.
As the saying goes, only love can last a long time. When I work hard and translate my love of life and reading into words, then I may turn my ordinary life into something no longer ordinary.
So, at 3:30 p.m. yesterday (December 29, 2023), this was the most exciting moment for me, because at this moment, my second collection of essays was officially published by Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House, with a total of 300,000 words and 6 columns: Soul Building, Art Garden Encounter, Taste Homesickness, Light the Heart Lamp, Feelings for the World, and People on the Journey.
When I held the new book of "Comfort", a collection of essays that had just been delivered from the Suzhou Transoceanic Printing House, I was indescribably happy.
I remember that since April this year, I have started to sort out the manuscript, about 350,000 words of various articles, and asked my senior brother Li Ahua to help me in the preliminary review and classification, and then by the chairman of the District Writers Association Zhou Haofeng carefully re-examined, and then classified in detail, and submitted to the Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House for publication, after the first trial, the second trial, the third trial, and the final review, finally completely passed. Although several articles were reviewed by the editor for various reasons and recommended to be returned, if I think about it, because the style does not match the connotation, I can accept and fully understand.
Just as Professor Wang Yao, a famous scholar, winner of the Lu Xun Literature Award and doctoral supervisor, said in the preface to my book "Comfort": "In the daily life of chicken feathers, discovering the meaning of writing life is another characteristic of Zhou Jianming's prose. Zhou Jianming is good at discovering the essence of life from the small things in life, and he writes down the bits and pieces of life details, so that his prose is full of a sense of life scene. I think that's what makes prose a genre so special. ”
Another teacher of mine, Chen Chunqi, said: "A person's external performance comes from the elegance of the inner soul and the perfection of the heart, I like Zhou Jianming's works, his small articles have a life atmosphere and are very down-to-earth, many articles are profound, and the artistic conception is beautiful." ”
After reading the book "Imperfection is Called Life", my classmate Fei Xuebin told me: "I have read this article of yours twice in a row, and each word is like a note plucking the strings in the depths of my soul. Some of your experiences are similar to mine, you emphasize righteousness and friendship, and in the end it doesn't count that you were cheated on, and you spend money to buy hatred, but it's all wealth. He also said: "This reminds me of what Venerable Hongyi once said: 'There is nothing in life that cannot be let go', which is similar to your article, thank you for making me more mature!".”
One teacher also said: "I read the book "Life Against the Odds is Happy", and I feel that a person's work and all artistic hobbies are to return to oneself, make full use of one's own conditions to enjoy life, and meet material and spiritual needs. The quality of life is mainly conducive to physical and mental health;Integrate social life, create a beautiful picture of human life, harmonious symbiosis and integration, and conform to the law of the development of social productive forces and the renewal of social forms. ”
Another teacher was blunt after reading the book "Achieving a Better Self with Calligraphy". He said: "Of course it's not good to be a straw bale with no ink on your chest;Delve into addiction, exhaust yourself, and suffer too much. To be a human being, you should have both dedication and enjoyment. From the material to the spiritual, whether it is the mental process or the behavioral experience, when correctly grasped, relaxed and happy, healthy and long-lived, is the most important goal of life, and your article just interprets this essence. ”
I often wonder how to live a person's life. A university student said that life should be meaningful and interesting. And my understanding is that it is probably meaningful to support the family, take care of the wife and children, and serve the elderly, which most people must be able to do;And interesting is probably to focus on what interests me for a long time, so I think it's interesting that I love words.
Writing needs inspiration, when the desk is written, the things heard or encountered in life always have to resurface or sift through before they can be sorted out, often the past feelings and scenes slide on the tip of the pen, I have a sense of responsibility and sunshine mentality to plan the layout. Convey positive words to the reader, so that the prose grows infinite possibilities.
Just as Gu Xiaoping, the author of "Comfort", said: "If you want to train a person who can do great things, you must make him suffer hardships and be unsatisfactory in order to develop a tenacious character." After a person has exercised to different degrees, he will obtain different degrees of cultivation and different degrees of benefits. It's like spices, the more crushed they are, the finer they are ground, and the stronger their fragrance becomes. Zhou Jianming tortures himself all the time through literary creation, and he cares for himself with writing, which is to care for and comfort himself, that is, to try his best to maintain a calm and calm heart in a materialistic society. ”
Touch "Comfort", read every article of "Comfort", read between the lines, in the story, in the details, and then listen to Zhou Jianming's attitude towards life sighing, helplessness, emotion, comfort, pursuit, growth, etc., the reader will get a spiritual refinement, and then get a kind of comfort. This kind of soothing is an attitude towards life, but also an attitude towards prose, which can be helpless, but also gentle and understanding, an understanding of oneself, an understanding of life, and an understanding of society. And thus move on step by step. Teacher Gu Xiaoping expressed in depth.
It made me deeply realize that the reason why some people continue to grow is definitely because there is a strength to persevere. Good reader, willing to work hard, not only read, but also take notes. If people want to grow, there must be a reason, and the efforts and accumulation behind it must be several times that of ordinary people. So, the key is also yourself.
It is often said that literary creation needs style, and the style created by a writer must be closely related to life experience and personal social experience.
Brother Xiaoping also said: "We see that Zhou Jianming's cultural background is intertwined with traditional culture and new era culture, which not only has a profound accumulation of life, but also has a natural integration with modern life. As expressed in his essay "Calm Heart, Only by Insight into the Greater World" is "Now think calmly, you can't blame others completely in life, you should think more about your own mistakes and mistakes." He is such a person who always insists on his own position, the spiritual position, which is reflected in the prose and shared with the reader. ”
I always feel that when words become literature through communication, that love is ignited, and that lonely text is definitely no longer lonely.
And I will prove that my love has changed from ordinary to no longer ordinary!
Author: Zhou Jianming.