Everyone wants to live a rich life, but the rich and the ordinary are far away.
As said in "Dou E's Injustice": "Those who do good suffer poverty and have a shorter life, and those who do evil enjoy wealth and longevity." ”Society always reverses black and white, making the good suffer and be poor, and the wicked happy and happy. Such resentment will emerge after a person has been poor for many years.
Recently, after rewatching the movie "That Year Old", I suddenly realized a truthThere is also wealth in the lives of the poor, and the key is to find a way to "activate".
In the movie, the eight-year-oldTinylost his mother, his father remarried, and his stepmother was very disgusted with him. For this reason, Xiaoxiao was forced to leave school by his father, and his eyes were not goodFortune teller Lao WuLead the way, you can earn six yuan a month.
After going through twists and turns, Xiaoxiao returned to school, and his fate changed from then on.
"Pain": Life has fallen to the bottom, and others can't wake up, so they can only wake up by themselves.
At the age of eight, a person is ignorant of the world, still a child, and needs to be pampered. ButTinyis an exception, and can only be bullied by his stepmother and arranged to do some heavy physical work.
He remembered his mother's words: "Only by reading can there be hope." ”
But if he doesn't read, he doesn't count. His father pulled him out of the classroom and trotted all the way to Lao Wu's house.
A child who dropped out of school and an old man who can't see the world clearly with his eyes is really sad.
Xiaoxiao is very willful, he hates Lao Wu very much, so he thinks of a lot of ways to escape. But his father caught him by Lao Wu's side again and again, leaving him with nothing to do.
Lao Wu is very shrewd and can always guard against small tricks. The children in the village, seeing the little embarrassed look, came to taunt him and threw him with small stones.
For Xiaoxiao, since there is no mother, there are no good people around. The pain of life has reached the extreme. He began to reflect on how he could change his fate and go back to school.
When many people are poor, they only know how to complain and wait for others to help them. At this time, it shows that they have not yet entered the "bottom", their lives are not painful enough, and they still have the illusion of "getting something for nothing".Lin Yutang said"The degree of a person's enlightenment is equal to the depth of his suffering." ”You should be in a situation where you fall asleep, suddenly you are pricked by something, and you wake up immediately. "Prick it up" is more effective than someone shouting you to get up. Thankfully, you'll learn from this experience and know how to guard against "pricking."
There is a word called "learning from the pain".
When you're poor, put a little pressure on yourself and don't expect others to pull you. In this way, there are signs of bottoming out in life.
Pain often makes the weak misanthropic and supreme, but it makes the strong more sober and energetic.
Losing everything is actually the beginning of having everything。Just like the trees that have survived the cold winter, spring is beginning to be welcomed.
"Love": No matter how difficult life is, you still have to love in order to meet the noble person in your life.
When all the "tricks, anger, and grievances" didn't work, Xiao Xiaoxiao was obedient, and he began to care about Lao Wu's life and wondered how he could make money to support himself.Lao Wu said that to tell fortunes to people is to give people hope, not to the future.
For example, he told a fortune to a daughter-in-law in the village and said, "This woman is a noble person in the family." Originally, the family was very upset because their daughter-in-law gave birth to a daughter, and when they heard Lao Wu say this, they immediately changed their attitude towards their daughter-in-law.
It doesn't matter if Lao Wu is accurate or not, but he saved a woman's life.
When Xiaoxiao and Lao Wu get along, Lao Wu will teach him to play the flute, play the erhu, and tell a lot of truths.
When the children in the village bullied Xiaoxiao, Lao Wu was angry and raised his crutches; The little foot was pricked, and Lao Wu carried him across the river with his thin body, trembling at every step, but it was particularly warm.
At the end of the movie, Lao Wu took out all the money and sent Xiaoxiao back to school.
For poor children, reading is a shortcut to wealth.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Li Hongzhang, an important minister, wrote: "The poor have no fate, and when the rich will help the poor; The competition for fame has been a long time, and it is still an old Confucian scarf. ”The poor should not always sigh about their fate, pinch their fate, be realistic. Don't wait for anyone to redeem yourself, but take the initiative to love life and care for others.
When you become sunny yourself, then others will find "a beam of light" and thus have the idea of crossing your journey.
Imagine a picture where it's dark everywhere and you're glowing. Although the light is small, it can be seen by the people around you. This is the cohesion of "love".
Lao Wu worked hard to love those who were suffering from life, and with the help of the role of fortune telling, he helped others, so he was respected; The primary school learned to care for Lao Wu, so he received Lao Wu's understanding and support, and his life was restarted.There are many people who get rich through love.
For example, the wife of Ma Zhou, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, was originally a widow who opened a shop in the capital to make a living. She took in the penniless Ma Zhou, and she was not afraid of the people around her.
When Ma Zhou became the prime minister, she also enjoyed happiness.
Huang Yueying during the Three Kingdoms married the poor boy Zhuge Liang. Later, Zhuge Liang became the prime minister.
When people are poor, if they don't even have the courage to "love life" and keep resenting others, then don't expect to live a rich life.
There is a sentence in the ancient book: "Filial piety Min Ziqian, one word his mother is back, and then three sons Wen." ”Confucius's **Min Ziqian, like Xiaoxiao, lost his mother. The stepmother is very mean to him and very partial to her children. But instead of resentment, he said to his father that "stepmother is fine".
Once. He drove his father and accidentally dropped the horsewhip. His father whipped him with a horsewhip - and in an instant, his cotton clothes were rotten, revealing reed flowers.
The father realized that his son had no cotton clothes to wear in winter, and he shivered with cold. When the father angrily wanted to divorce his wife, the son said, "My stepmother is here, and I am alone in the cold, and if my stepmother leaves, we will all be cold."
In a word, it made the stepmother burst into tears.
Love and pain often alternate in our lives. For positive people, pain is a spur, and love is a touch.
Rich, it seems to be very far away from the poor, but in fact it is very close.
Studying hard, enduring pain, and loving everything are all ways to gain wealth.
Don't be pessimistic and misanthropic, poverty is not the original sin, poverty is.