Mr. Yang Jiang said in his centennial speech: We used to look forward to the recognition of the outside world, and in the end we realized that the world is our own and has nothing to do with others.
The life we live in, good and bad, bitter and happy, poor and rich, are all set by ourselves, and never by the standards of others.
But when we are young, we always don't understand this truth, but instead hand over the world to others and to standardized standards.
Maybe it takes continuous experience and continuous learning before we can truly understand why the world is our own and has nothing to do with others!
Between Diogenes and Alexander the Great, there is an interesting story:
Alexander stood in front of Diogenes, who was lying in the sun, and said, "I am Alexander of the Macedonian Empire." ”
Diogenes said, "I am Diogenes. ”
Alexander asked, "What can I do for you?"”
Diogenes replied, "Please don't block my sun. ”
Who is Alexander?
His teacher was Aristotle, Alexander was also the king of the Macedonian Empire, at the age of 33, Alexander conquered Europe, usually he said a word, many people have to tremble, for fear of annoying this invincible emperor.
The emperor was furious, ambushed millions of corpses, and bled and drifted."
Alexander Yinuo is also worth a thousand gold, maybe as long as Diogenes speaks, Alexander will give him ** thousand taels.
Diogenes dared to be neither humble nor arrogant in front of Alexander, who else could he be?
He was a street bum, unclothed, sleeping in a wooden barrel and eating from the streets.
But he was not born poor, he was born into a banker, and there were still many slaves in his family, but one day, he let go of all his efforts and lived a poor life of begging.
A barrel is the "home" of Diogenes!
But this is such a man, when Alexander asks him, "What can I help you?" and says don't block my sunlight.
It means: I don't need your help with anything, and if you don't block my sunshine, you'll help me!
Alexander lamented: "If I am not Alexander, then I would like to be Diogenes." ”
A spiritual king, a material king, and thus ended their conversation.
Diogenes was a representative of the Cynic school, and in the eyes of others they lived a "miserable" life, but in his own rightOn the contrary, he believes that people should pursue happiness, but happiness should not be confined to material things, and the wealth of life does not depend on the amount of material.
"Please don't block my sunshine", this is the words of a person who is rich in heart.
Returning to Alexander the Great, he didn't get angry with Diogenes' words, what a gentleman's demeanor!
The story of Diogenes is beautiful, and Alexander is a gentleman.
But this reminds me of the famous "wandering master" on the Internet - Shen Wei, after becoming famous, countless people interviewed him, and Shen Wei's life was seriously affected.
Shen Wei was also a person who had a "decent job", but for some reasons, he eventually left his original job and began to "wander".
He likes to read, often squatting in subway stations and roadside to read, and most of the income from scavenging is used to buy books, which is almost all his expenses.
Reading books for a long time has allowed Shen Wei to accumulate a lot of knowledge, and he talks about "Shangshu" and "Zuo Chuan", which makes many people pay attention to him.
It is precisely because of these concerns that many people "watch" him every day, which affected his original life.
Some people even offered to donate to him, but he refused!
Shen Wei was red, but he also ran away.
He couldn't stand such a life.
I saw Shen Wei say something like this:
I don't read too many books, I seem to think it's very strange, it's not how much knowledge I have, it's your own creation, you read less books, it's as simple as that. You read more of the book itself, don't pay attention to me, that's all. ”
Sometimes I can't help but feel uncomfortable, more than 2,000 years ago, Diogenes could bask in the sun in a wooden barrel, and he could ignore Alexander's visit, but today's "wandering masters" were "watched" by people and finally fled in the wilderness.
After more than 2,000 years, they are also living on the streets, the same thing is that both of them are people with rich hearts, the difference is that one of them can be himself with peace of mind, but the other can't!
Diogenes was lucky to be himself. It was even more of a blessing that no one bothered his life.
Society is a big dye vat, especially now, colorful.
What color of people is clear at a glance, and if there is a slight difference, I immediately think that it is an anomaly, and I have to pull people in to transform it, preferably the same as myself.
There's a classic story:
It is normal for the citizens of a certain country to be mad because they drank the water from the well of the madman, but the king did not drink the water.
But the next day, everyone said that the king was crazy.
Until the king also went to drink the water from the well of the madman and became mad, the whole nation rejoiced that their king had become normal.
In the eyes of some people, Shen Wei is probably the "crazy" "king".
However, the king was eventually influenced and lost the freedom to be himself.
Xu Wei is luckier than the king, he can still escape, escape to some quiet place, and start being himself again: scavenging, studying!
In today's age of pragmatism and realism, the criteria for judging many things are simple.
How easy?As long as you lean a little bit on the money, you will make a judgment. If money isn't enough, look at fame, power, house, car, and you'll be sure nothing goes wrong!
Let's look at Yan, after graduating for many years, he has achieved nothing, how much money he earns and how much he spends, for so many years, he has been running all over the world, and nothing has happened;
Let's look at Yang, he is young, has a successful career, and now he is a small leader of the company, he has a house and a car, and it is easy to earn more than 100,000 yuan a year.
Such remarks are really still in my ears and can be seen everywhere.
Sometimes, if you talk a little bit about philosophy, a little bit about metaphysics, you might be asked, "What's the use of that?"Can it make you more?In particular, they will even say that you are "pretending to be X".
Sometimes I want to defend a few words, but I am afraid that I will be said to be evading the problem and quibbling.
These are not stories, but facts, at least, they are all facts that I have encountered.
We are getting richer and richer in our material lives, but the wealth of our hearts is getting thinner. "What's the use", "Can you make more money?", "Can you..." And so on a lot of practical considerations, it seems that a lot of things are standardized.
However, I vaguely remember someone saying that it is not enough for a person to only have the world in front of him, he must also have wisdom and thinking above this world.
I still vaguely remember this sentence: how small the world in front of me is, and how great the invisible and invisible world is.
However, some people say: what is the use of those things, can they make you live better?
It's a ridiculous question, and the only answer is: what's your business!
There is nothing more painful in the world than to ask others with what you understand, and what you see to ask others!