When a person is down, don't test human nature, just like a tiger falling in Pingyang, don't underestimate a family dog.
Newton once lamented: "I can calculate the orbits of celestial bodies, but I cannot calculate the madness of human nature." ”
Human nature is complex, sometimes jaw-droppingly complex. When people are down, there are very few people who are willing to pull you
When Lu Mengzheng, the prime minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, was young, his father was obsessed with women, and after his mother admonished and quarreled many times to no avail, he left home decisively, and his father drove the young Lu Mengzheng out of the house in anger. Lu's mother took Xiao Mengzheng back to the Lu family's rural hometown, hoping to get the support and blessing of the clansmen, but after everyone learned of the situation, some watched coldly, some pointed fingers, and some even refused directly.
Mother and son had no choice but to find a depressed temple to live in, two years later, Lu Meng, who was studying poetry and books, was about to go to Beijing to catch the exam, but he was shy and not entangled enough, so he found relatives again, hoping that everyone would put together some and return them to them after the middle school in the future.
Unexpectedly, there was another blank of eyes and sneer, after these two things, the mother and son finally understood that only the two of them could rely on. In the days that followed, his mother helped people spin cloth and make clothes, and Lu Meng was helping people copy and write letters, accumulating and entangling. The emperor lived up to his wishes, and Lu Mengzheng won the first place in one fell swoop and won the top prize in Jinke.
When the news of his winning the top prize came back to his hometown, those relatives who had retreated came to the door to contact him. Lu Mengzheng sighed and wrote a couplet: "Downcast like a beggar, no one sends charcoal in the snow; Winning the top prize in one fell swoop is the icing on the cake. ”
When you are strong, the whole world welcomes you with a smile; When you are down, your friends and family will avoid you. I like to read history because there is nothing new under the sun, and all history is contemporary.
Maybe you were still laughing at the ignorance of the ancients one second, rejoicing in your intellectual intelligence, and the next second when a scene of history repeats itself to you, you know that you are so fragile, small and powerless. There is a sentence in "Skin":
When I couldn't stand it, I also wanted to find a mountain to test, and after looking for a long time, I found that some mountains were full of thorns, and some mountains were full of wild beasts, so only I was my backer. ”
No matter when, it is always you who can support you.
In the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, natural disasters accompanied by rebellions made seventeen-year-old Zhu Chongba experience the extreme pain of the world for the first time - both parents died.
However, although the world is big and there is land everywhere, none of them belong to them, and their parents have planted the land all their lives, but there is nowhere to bury their bones in the end. Fortunately, the mercy of good people allowed him to bury his parents, and he had to become a monk in order to make a living, but monks are not all good, and they will also bully life, and the young Zhu Yuanzhang was sent to Huaixi and Henan to beg for food.
At that time, Huaixi and Henan were the most famine areas, and going there to beg for food was like taking food from the tiger's mouth, but he also had to go. Begging for food may be met with white eyes, ridicule, and even fists and kicks, but if you don't beg, you have to wait for death. You can't have dignity if you want to beg for food. Which is more important, the dignity of life or the pressure of survival?
Apparently the latter. Maybe it's the pride of the sky that God has taken care of, or maybe the little Zhu Chongba had an epiphany after the suffering, he has transformed from a handyman who can only hide in the pyre and cry quietly after being bullied, to a warrior who can face all difficulties strongly, a warrior armed to the heart.
This also laid a solid psychological foundation for him to unveil his momentum in the future.
Long-term difficulties and pressures can temper a person's will the most. There are many people who can only complain and get by after encountering difficulties, while some others, although they have to bow their heads in the face of difficulties, their hearts have never yielded, and they continue to work hard, believing that they will be able to achieve the final victory.
People who are in the abyss actually have only two choices:It seems to have redeemed itself, but in fact it is only to deceive and paralyze itself with what the world accepts and approves;
Accept the abyss and bury your heart here, from acceptance, to acceptance, to rerooting. There are no strong seedlings under the big tree, and those who can shelter you from the wind and rain will also make you lose sight of the day.
Instead of handing over the key to your own success or failure to others, it is better to experience the wind and rain yourself.