Busyness is good medicine;Running is the antidote.
Life is complicated, and we have been busy in middle age, hoping to have leisure time one day. But after I was really idle, I felt that I had nothing to do, and the whole person didn't feel normal.
The stress of life is always there, and there is a desire to find a way to decompress. However, whether it's watching dramas all night or indulging in games, after a moment of pleasure, it only brings more physical and mental exhaustion.
In fact, to achieve the best state of life, you should regard busyness as a good medicine, and running as an antidote.
Busy, is good medicine.
There is a fable about a man on his way to heaven, when he sees a palace of resplendent gold, he mistakes it for heaven, and he walks in.
The palace owner received him warmly and began to live a life of three full meals a day and nothing to do.
A month later, he complained to his master that he was too idle to have something to do.
The owner smiled and said, "That's how we are here." ”
After three months, he finally couldn't take it anymore and said loudly to his master: "I can't stand it anymore, I'd rather go to hell than stay here." ”
The palace master was stunned for a moment and replied, "This is hell." ”
Bai Yansong once said: "Idleness is the greatest punishment for a person." ”
If a person is idle all the time, he or she may go crazy or become manic. But if you can put it into practice, and put your thoughts and plans in your spare time into practice, you can fill the void and relieve boredom.
Yang Jiang did just that.
At the age of 87, she lost her only loved one, her husband Qian Zhongshu. And at the age of 106, how did she survive 19 years of grief?
She translated Plato's magnum opus "Pei Duo", sorted out Qian Zhongshu's notes and manuscripts, and wrote "We Together". After the age of 100, she also developed and published her own collection of essays, "Walking to the Edge of Life".
At the same time, she insisted on playing eight pieces of brocade every day, reading books, and painting.
This amiable and respectable old man has arranged his time to the fullest and lived a full and calm life. She used her busyness to finally ** herself and gained inner peace and tranquility.
A philosopher once said, "Pain and troubles never attack you when you are in action, they only attack you when your mind is free." ”
No matter what life is like, only being busy is the best medicine for yourself. It can soothe your pain, and it can soothe your anxiety. When you're busy, you're tired physically, and when you're too idle, you're tired mentally. Which one would you rather choose?
Running is the antidote.
In our lives, there are few times when it is smooth sailing, and we are often faced with layers of pressures and obstacles.
When stress accumulates too much, we need to learn to release it instead of holding it to our hearts.
Chasing dramas and playing games and indulging in carnivals seems to be a kind of release on the surface, but in fact it is like drinking to quench thirst, or chronic self-destruction.
In contrast, choosing to run is the best way to release stress and a good way to solve inner depression.
Stay fit. Whatever the purpose, the primary effect of running is exercise.
Hitoko Umekata, author of "Amazing Ultra Jogging", has not liked sports since she was a child. After becoming a full-time writer, he indulged in mental work, and at the age of 30, he was seriously overweight.
All kinds of small physical problems followed, and even when I was on the bus, I was given up my seat by a well-wisher because I was too fat.
During her studies, her athletic grades were consistently unsatisfactory. Later, I became a professional writer, sitting in front of the computer all day and writing, and the only exercise was to move the chopsticks when eating and turn over when sleeping.
In order to change all this, she chose to run.
From the first 1 km and 10 minutes to the final half marathon in one go, Hisako Umekata felt more energetic, her writing career became more handy, and her various physical problems gradually disappeared.
Having a healthy body allows you to be more productive at work. And a tired body will only bring laziness in the mind. Running is not only an exercise for the body, but also a soothing for the soul and an antidote.
Relax your mind. Japanese writer Haruki Murakami is a keen long-distance runner and runs 10 kilometers every day. Someone asked him if he thought about life, society, or creation when he was running.
He smiled and replied, "On a cold day, you might think about the cold."On a hot day, think about the heat;When you are sad, think about your grief;When you're happy, think about it.
When I'm running, I never think about serious things. ”
To run is to relax the mind through physical labor.
Run faster when you're cold, run slower when you're hot, quicken when you're sad, and run briskly when you're happy.
The way you run is the expression of your feelings.
Relieve inner depression.
The troubles in life are complex and sometimes difficult to describe, so how can we turn these troubles into practical actions and expel them from the body like dirt in the body?
Only exercise can achieve this, and of all sports, running is considered the most efficient and convenient way to do so.
In a show, a female star shared her experience: once the filming pressure was too great, she gritted her teeth and insisted on running ten kilometers, and then collapsed to the ground, her limbs were weak, and sweat was pouring out.
However, she felt that her heart had always been happy, and all the stress and depression seemed to leave her, and she felt more relaxed.
Hone your will. Running is one of the easiest exercises, as long as you walk quickly, you are running.
Running is the easiest exercise, and anyone can easily cope with a 5-second sprint in a short time.
But running is also the most challenging, especially in the last 5 minutes, and not everyone can stick to it.
This requires strong willpower, and when the body's sense of resistance grows stronger, do you choose to grit your teeth and hold on for a second, or slow down and stop
If you can withstand the sore muscles, the shortness of breath, the collective ** of all parts of the body, one more run, one more second.
When you do that, in addition to getting endorphins secreted by the body, you can continue to feel inner satisfaction and pleasure, and you can also hone your willpower. In the future, when faced with difficulties in life and work, you will be more able to persevere for 5 minutes, and finally survive the darkness and usher in the dawn.
If there is an opponent that a person must overcome in his life, it is his past self.
However, be good at prescribing the right medicine.
Busyness is a good medicine for depression, through fullness and busyness, so that life is more full, and it lives up to this life.
Running is an antidote to depression, which can solve physical weaknesses, relieve emotional irritability, channel depression, and strengthen the unyielding will.