The journey of life is like a long drama, interpreting the process of our birth to growing up and aging. In Liang Xiaosheng's "The World", he profoundly depicts the certainty in life, no matter what food you eat, what you go through, or who you marry, it seems that you are already destined in heaven. However, young people scoff at this statement, arguing that life is not a set script; Middle-aged and elderly people, on the other hand, believe in the power of fate.
In pursuing this question, we find that people's attitudes towards the script of life change around the age of forty. Before the age of forty, people struggle hard, strive to grasp the "variables" of life, and try to change the "fixed numbers" that have long been predestined. However, after the age of forty, people gradually look down on the vicissitudes of the world, begin to accept the various predestined factors in life, and face them with a normal heart. Professor Wang Defeng's rhetoric speaks of a common phenomenon: the frivolity of youth is replaced by maturity, and the alternation of faith and understanding.
The key to the script of life lies in the individual's experience and experience. Different ages mean different perspectives on life. As Zhao Yi said: "When you are old, you know that you can't take it, and you can take three points of personnel and seven points of heaven." As they get older, they realize that many things cannot be changed by individual efforts, and that three parts of people and seven points of providence have become the true meaning of their hearts.
However, this perception is not set in stone. Wealth, health, and happiness in life seem to have their destined trajectories. How much money you make, how much you eat, and how many blessings you enjoy seem to be the fate that has long been engraved on the stone tablet of life. A story about two brothers who came to Guangzhou from the countryside to make a living. The eldest brother and nobles helped each other, and the opportunities continued, and finally entered the middle class. The younger brother is ill-fated, the nobles are not visible, and they will eventually be reduced to the bottom. has the same family background and similar personal abilities, but because of the differences in the middle, the life trajectories are very different. This makes people wonder whether the opportunities and nobles that each person encounters are the result of fate or personal choice.
The wonder of life is that we can't seem to fully control our own destiny. All kinds of accidents and coincidences make up an important chapter in our life's journey. Lao Li's experience, in the car accident, the boss was killed, the financial injury, the driver unfortunately died, and he himself survived. He lamented the fragility of his little life, and thought that if it weren't for God's blessing, he might have passed away a long time ago. In this world, when people face natural and man-made disasters, their personal strength seems weak and fragile, and their lives are vividly revealed in these moments.
How much to eat is also a fixed number that has long been predestined. When he was young, Lao Li suffered a car accident, his boss and driver were killed, and he fractured his brain**, but he survived in the end. Is all this just the result of individual efforts? Lao Li knows that in the face of natural and man-made disasters, his life is extremely fragile. Some people turn evil into good fortune and live a worry-free life; Some people died young, and they were destined. This is the so-called "everyone has his own life", and life shows uncontrollable variables in impermanence.
How much happiness you will enjoy is also a fixed number that has long been predestined. Professor Tsang pointed out that before birth, everyone is equal; After he was born, he began to be treated unfairly. Family background, wealth disparity, and social status seem to be settled at the moment of childbirth. The pyramidal social structure allows a small group of people to rise to the top, while the majority is reduced to the bottom. 99% of people do not have much difference in ability, but because of factors such as origin and background, their fates are very different. Those who work hard hate it, but they cannot free it from its bondage. The world seems to have been prescribed, and people at the bottom cannot compete on an equal footing with the elites.
The brilliance of the script of life lies in its inadmissibility. While we can work hard to change our lives, there are some things that we can't control. There are times in life when you have to have it, and there are times in life when you don't want it. We may not be able to choose where we begin in life, but we can choose how we want to interpret the journey of life. Whether it's faith or understanding, every moment of life is a drama of its own, and we are the best actors.
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