Doing more useless things in your spare time will improve your efficiency, restore your vitality and concentrate on your work and life better.
There is a housewife in my community-Aunt Li. In these years, she has to take care of her husband's diet and daily life, and is also responsible for her son's studies and the health of her in-laws.
Usually these daily chores make her dizzy, but no matter how trivial life is, she has been trying to keep three habits, namely, getting up early every day to run, reading newspapers during lunch break and reading books before going to bed.
It is hard to imagine that a woman who has to make breakfast in a hurry every morning will get up early, listen to music, step on the rhythm and run 5 kilometers around the park.
It's hard to believe that a woman who visits the vegetable market all day still cares about national affairs, current affairs and politics, and can read financial newspapers.
It is even harder for you to believe that a woman who washes dirty clothes all day has time to read Shakespeare.
In recent years, women of her age have always laughed at her for doing useless things, because these things can neither make her husband feel good about you, nor make her son get better grades, nor teach you to cook more delicious meals.
However, after being married for 10, having children for 8 years, and spending 5 years with her in-laws, she has not become a mediocre, complaining and greasy middle-aged woman.
On the contrary, because of these daily hobbies, her personality has become more and more tolerant, her mentality has become more and more positive, and her spirit has become more and more full. She still retains the innocence, enthusiasm and beautiful character of a maiden.
Zhou Zeng said: "Things with flavor in the world, including poetry, wine, philosophy and love, are often useless. Singing useless poems, drinking useless wine, reading useless books, being useless, and finally becoming useless, but living a delicious life. "
In fact, in life, more and more people are becoming more and more numb, anxious and boring.
Stay in your own small circle all day, surrounded by your own acre of land, and live a boring ordinary life.
People who love to do useless things can always expand their territory in ordinary days, find more fresh, interesting and meaningful things, and live richer and richer.
In my yard, there is a headmaster, Wang Juanjuan. He not only gets good grades in school, but also has a high IQ. And entering the workplace, emotional intelligence is also very high.
If you get good grades, it's because you usually study hard. Therefore, her good personality has a lot to do with the "useless" education she received since childhood.
When Juanjuan was 3 years old, her parents didn't let her learn much enlightenment education. Instead, whenever I have time, I will accompany her to watch the blue sky in a daze, watch the ants move under the apple tree and pick up the small stone castle by the river.
When Juanzi 13 years old, her parents will make her spend three hours a week learning to play the piano, ballet and flute, even under heavy schoolwork. I will take her to travel, see exhibitions and listen to concerts every winter and summer vacation.
When Juanzi was 23 years old, he was about to graduate and was looking for a job. In addition to guiding her career planning, she will also tell her how to make delicious Mapo tofu and how to embroider magnificent landscapes. How to appreciate the wisdom of life in A Dream of Red Mansions?
At first, many people thought that Wang Juanjuan's parents just deliberately let their children lose at the starting line.
But in this process, Juanjuan learned to love life, get close to nature, learn how to get along with others, and learn that life is not just about exams and grades, but also poetry, distance, future and hope.
I remember Jiang Xun once said, "Give children the best music, literature and movies, and be influenced by nature. Schools and families must never become chicken farms and pig farms, and raise a number of tools that are only tested. "
In fact, in real life, many parents have a misunderstanding that as long as they get good grades, they are good students.
In their view, it is useful to learn English, attend remedial classes and recite ancient Chinese, but it is useless to roll on the grass, make a snowman in the cold wind and chase sparrows in the field.
However, when these so-called good students leave the constraints of school, the discipline of parents and the protection of ivory towers, they become helpless, at a loss, confused and anxious.
They don't know how to lead an interesting life, how to face lonely times and how to make themselves happy.
In fact, a really good student should not only get excellent grades, but also develop morally, intellectually, physically and artistically, and the latter will benefit from useless education.
We used to think that as long as we earned a lot of gold and silver, won the admiration of everyone and made amazing achievements, we could live with dignity, meaning and taste.
So we began to become impetuous, and we became only interested in useful money, achievements and status. We ignore the useless moments in life, and these moments are also precious.
I remember Liang Wendao once said, "Reading some useless books, doing some useless things, and spending some useless time are all for keeping an opportunity to surpass yourself beyond all the known. Some great changes in life began from this moment. "
Maybe at the moment when you are tired from work, at the moment when you are worried about trivial things in life, when you are struggling for your own achievements.
You should learn to do something useless. Although they can't help you solve practical problems, they can quietly bring you a positive attitude and optimistic personality, and bring decompression agents to your body and mind.
Maybe learning photography won't make you a photographer, but as long as you feel the existence of beauty.
Learning to paint may not be a painter, but it can enrich your spare time.
Maybe you can't become a writer by writing, but it will purify your mind.
Gao Zeng said: "The most important difference between humans and animals is that everything animals do is for survival and reproduction. People, on the other hand, have to do a lot of useless things, such as playing chess and drawing, such as waiting for love. "
In fact, there is no such thing as uselessness in this world. The so-called uselessness is more of a balance.