First, respect life: cultivate teenagers' sense of life community.
Respect for life is an important prerequisite for cultivating teenagers' life consciousness. As an important content of respecting life, the consciousness of life community is based on the concept of individual, society and nature. Correctly handling the relationship between individuals, society and nature is an important basis for understanding the community of life. Therefore, cultivating teenagers' awareness of life community should be carried out from three aspects: respecting their own life rights, respecting the equality of others' lives and respecting the existence of natural life.
(1) the right to respect your own life
In recent years, the phenomenon of adolescent suicide is common, and the behavior of ignoring life is more frequent. The reason is inseparable from teenagers' neglect of their right to life. The right to life is the most basic and important right of China citizens. However, due to the lack of cultivating teenagers' life consciousness, it is difficult for teenagers to understand the important value of the right to life, and their life consciousness is becoming increasingly weak. It is necessary for young people to clearly realize that the right to life is everyone's innate basic right, and they must respect and care for their right to life, so that they can have a beautiful and splendid life. Therefore, schools, society and families should reasonably carry out the education of teenagers' right to life. First of all, the school should carry out relevant life education courses and equip professional teachers for teaching. We can't simply instill blunt theoretical knowledge into teenagers, but should adopt case teaching and situational teaching to let teenagers participate in teaching. On the one hand, it can vividly explain the importance of the right to life, on the other hand, it can subtly integrate the right to life into students' thoughts, so that they will have awe of life and firmly remember the right to respect their own lives. Secondly, the society should carry out activities related to life education, such as: carrying out community cultural activities of life education and posting propaganda slogans about the right to life. Let all aspects of teenagers' life be influenced by life education, understand the connotation and value of the right to life, and then cherish their right to life. Finally, family education is an important field to cultivate teenagers' life consciousness. As the first teacher of children, parents should pay attention to the life education of teenagers in the process of their children's growth, for example, telling their children about the life or death around them, making them understand that the right to life is hard to come by, and further learning to respect their own right to life.
(2) Respect the equality of others' lives.
"Everyone is equal before life." [1] Everyone's life is a unique and special existence in the world and an irreplaceable individual. The most essential feature of respecting life is to respect the equality of others' lives, that is, to respect the dignity and existence of each individual's life. As an important part of the concept of life community, the consciousness that people are born equal is an important content of cultivating teenagers' life consciousness. So, how to correctly cultivate teenagers' awareness of life equality? It can be based on the following three aspects: first, respect the existence of other people's lives and prohibit hurting others' lives. Life is sacrosanct and deserves everyone's respect and love. Everyone's right to life is a real existence protected by law, and hurting others' lives is not only condemned by society, but also sanctioned by law. It is necessary to cultivate teenagers' basic legal knowledge, make it clear that respecting the existence of life and prohibiting hurting others' lives are basic laws and regulations, and become good law-abiding citizens. Second, affirm the meaning of other people's lives and forbid harming their dignity. Everyone's life has a unique and important value. It is necessary to guide young people to discover the beauty of life, affirm the significance of the existence of others' lives, gradually understand that life is equal in affirming others, and then learn to respect others and stop doing acts that hurt their dignity. Third, respect the achievements of others' labor, and prohibit harming the interests of others. Everyone's life deserves to be respected and every job deserves to be affirmed. Cultivating teenagers to establish the most glorious consciousness of labor can not only guide them to learn to respect the achievements of others' labor, but also make them balance their personal interests with others' interests, learn to protect their personal interests without harming others' interests, and realize the true connotation of equality before life.
(3) Respect the existence of life in nature
China's traditional philosophers have endowed nature with life value for a long time, and have continued the overall view of nature of "harmony between man and nature" to this day, becoming the spiritual treasure house of China culture. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out at the national eco-environmental protection conference: "The lifeblood of man lies in the field, the lifeblood of field lies in water, the lifeblood of water lies in mountains, the lifeblood of mountains lies in soil, and the lifeblood of soil lies in trees" [2], insisting on harmonious coexistence between man and nature and advocating people to respect and care for all life in nature. However, teenagers in today's society have been living and studying in noisy cities, and rarely feel the vitality of nature, let alone the beautiful existence of natural life. In the end, it is difficult to understand that man and nature are an inseparable existence. Once teenagers break this relationship, they are likely to do things that ignore natural life, such as killing animals and destroying plants. Therefore, to strengthen teenagers' awareness of respecting life, on the one hand, we can lead teenagers to visit zoos or botanical gardens, and through activities such as telling about animal and plant habits and feeding small animals reasonably, let teenagers deepen their understanding of natural life, gradually form the concept of respecting life and protecting nature, and then learn to be kind to all life in nature; On the other hand, we encourage young people to actively participate in summer camp activities. Summer camps in various schools will lead children to the real nature, let them get in touch with the life existing in nature, integrate with it, feel the vitality of natural life for themselves, and hold various group activities close to nature, so that teenagers can understand natural life in the process of doing tasks, gradually understand the gift of nature and learn to respect the existence of natural life.
Second, cherish life: awaken the young people's will to die.
Cherishing life is a necessary condition to cultivate teenagers' life consciousness. As an important content of cherishing life, Never too old to learn expounds that life is short from a philosophical point of view, which is an important theoretical basis for cultivating teenagers' life consciousness. Help teenagers understand the preciousness of life, face up to the existence of death, strengthen their will to survive, and finally let them cherish life, learn to face life with tough will and live by the method of life countdown.