This article stems from a comedy short film I just watched in the past two days - "Don't Panic King".
The story is based on "Journey to the West", and tells a series of stories about the little monster "Linglong Tower" as the heavenly court, lurking in the demon village as **, and assisting the Tang monks and apprentices to successfully clear the customs.
Interspersed with workplace, suspenseful, and fantasy comedy stories, it will be used as a metaphor for the present, and the past and the present will be done without disobedience, embarrassment, and even make people have a sense of substitution and deep thought.
Among them, "Mole Master", as the most important supporting role, is a resourceful military, and he is the object of being orphaned by the old demon king on his deathbed, which naturally reminds me of Zhuge Liang.
In the past, no matter whether I watched or listened to the Three Kingdoms, no one had ever defined Zhuge Liang as a "loser", but I always regretted that he did not achieve the desired ending in the end, and even felt that he "fell off the altar".
In everyone's word of mouth, he is resourceful, loyal, filial and righteous, and an existence that is almost a "god-man".
Three points of the world", "tongue battle group Confucian", "grass boat borrowing arrows", "borrowing the east wind", and the painstaking efforts of the orphan "......
These can add to his "merits" and "merits" and his prestige.
But no one ever said that he was a "loser".
If the goal of "reviving the Han family" is concerned, his ultimate ideal of assisting the monarch to "rule the world" has not been realized.
Even though there were brilliant moments and achievements along the way, his ultimate goal ended in failure.
Of course, there are various reasons that cannot be controlled by him, such as: Guan Yu missed Jingzhou and lost his life, Liu Bei did not listen to his advice and had to raise troops to attack Wu, and heavy rain saved Sima Yi ......
We can say that because of a variety of external reasons, which together led to this result, we cannot put all the blame on him, and he did his best.
However, if according to the "success or failure" viewpoint, his ultimate goal is not achieved, he is still a "failure".
According to the view of success or failure, he is a "loser", but why is he still praised, admired by all generations, and passed down through the ages?
Aside from the fact that "feudal rulers wanted to set a positive benchmark for loyalty and patriotism", I thought of another of the biggest reasons that apply to today's society.
It is the spirit of "doing what you know you can't do" and "not giving up even if you fail".
Yes, it sounds corny and cliché.
This is the highest expression of our modern core values, and we have heard these words since childhood.
After listening to it for a long time, I thought it was easy, it was very common, and I thought it could be easily achieved.
However, after experiencing the world, we will realize the hardships more deeply, and we will really insist on one thing for a lifetime to ask for the effort and price.
It will be more obvious to distinguish the reality from the ivory tower of the study period, and the ideal state.
Six out of Qishan, until death, we can imagine this scene, the once high-spirited young man, he became famous at a young age, full of resourcefulness and skills.
He once wanted to retreat to the mountains and forests, but because of the righteousness, he experienced many displacements.
Now he is in the last years of his life, his beard is gray, and he is bent down, obviously he should enjoy his old age, but he still lights the lamp and boils oil, works hard, and travels tirelessly to fight again and again.
An old man, already the prime minister of a country, still sits in a bumpy carriage, endures the cold and heat, eats and sleeps in the open, again and again.
In the past, when I was younger, I always felt that those earth-shattering stories of ghosts and gods didn't seem to be so difficult, as if they could be easily done.
However, when people reach middle age, they seem to be more able to realize that the power behind those words cannot be achieved by imagination, and those difficulties and difficulties cannot be filled in by you and me in three or two sentences.
The vast majority of people nowadays have given up long ago after failing to succeed in doing one thing two or three times. Either they start to live in a mess, or they start to doubt their lives and become disheartened.
There are a few people like him, under the conditions of various internal and external troubles, they still do not change their original intentions, are energetic, and go all out.
But if there is, he is more or less not too bad.
Such a spirit, which can endure failure after failure, but still does not change its original intention, and the spirit of unwavering mind is far more difficult than enjoying success.
Success only takes a moment of great attention, while failure is torturous, embarrassing, and requires a lot of pressure.
Therefore, people love success and do not like failure, not only because of the convenience and aura that success brings, but also because people need to bear more after failure, and the reality does not care whether you can bear it or not.
And Zhuge Liang's later generations commented that the reason why he was not defined by the failure after the "Six Out of Qishan" was due to his tenacious willpower, all the efforts he made, his hard work, his original intention, and he never gave up.
He's still positive, he's optimistic, he's not afraid to be defined, because he's defining himself.
God won't let me, but what can I do? It was his last exclamation.
We all know that people's willpower can have infinite space, and some people fail before they set off, but he pulls the space in between to the fullest.
Isn't it enough for a resourceful civilian official in a high position to die on the battlefield to the last moment of the battle to be praised, admired, admired, and not worthy of being remembered for eternity?
So who else is worth it?
I have lamented his failure countless times, and I always feel that if he succeeds, his "sanity" will not be defective.
But now, I am a little calmer, because as a human being, he has done his best.
He is not God, but He is doing what God wants to do.
Tireless, loyal, and unrepentant, if there is a true God in this world, then there are still very few of them who can do this.
Therefore, his behavior and thoughts after "failure" show his personal charm even more and make him even more admirable.
Therefore, instead of blaming him, people praise him even more.
Because the way a person faces failure is far more testing a person's heart and will than he faces success.
A person who is in a high position, has no worries about food and clothing, and has returned with a full load of reputation and prestige, most of them will tend to be more peaceful and modest, and tend to "forget it", "Death is like a lamp going out, what am I still clinging to".
Who will be obsessed with fulfilling what vows and what ideals to fulfill?
But he did just that, and did what even God couldn't.
And it is this kind of "heart", such "willpower", and such an original intention that he has become the object of praise from tens of millions of people.
And not just because of some of his glorious moments along the way.
Because many people can make some achievements because of the current situation, because of fate.
And only by letting him endure embarrassment, let him be in a high position and have no worries about food and clothing, and still not change his mind, can he be a great success.
Therefore, it is precisely because of his "resignation to the destiny of heaven regardless of the result", precisely because of his "failure does not change his will", and precisely because his "original intention has not changed", that he is praised by 10,000 people, not only because of his wisdom and strategy.
There are countless people with outstanding intelligence throughout the ages, but how many people can match this mind?
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