Many people long for a better life. In pursuit of perfection, they fill every corner of life with colored brushes. They strive for perfection and tolerate no regrets, because they don't want to neglect the blank to make them regret it. They want to touch the perfect straight line.
What a persistent and serious spirit! Compared with those idle people, this meticulous attitude towards life is undoubtedly valuable.
However, they are doomed to disappointment. This world is a world of concubines, and we have to endure many shortcomings. Even though we long for perfection, we can say that "the moon is full of ups and downs, and people have joys and sorrows, which was impossible in ancient times." Regret is absolute, and perfection is relative. The "perfect" straight line is the asymptotic line of "reality", which can only be infinitely close without intersection. No matter how colorful the picture is, there will be inevitable gaps.
"Life is not perfect and it doesn't need to be perfect." The French poet Bonafau told us that although we can never touch perfection, we don't have to lose it, because we don't have to pursue perfection at all.
The "ending" is not necessarily beautiful. "When the moon is full, it will lose money, and when the water is full, it will overflow." Perfect to the extreme, often began to destroy; When the flowers bloom to the most beautiful moment, colorful means dying. They all say that extremes meet. Examples of Japanese palace officials carving flowers for upside-down beams and columns, Venus' broken arm deliberately destroyed by Milos, and the deliberate failure of Zen calligraphy in Japan-these examples of wise men seeking vacancies all illustrate the lack of perfection?
"Lack" is not necessarily a regret. Li Mian, a man of A Qing Dynasty, advocated the wisdom of "half" in life, and thought that the most harmonious state was the lack of half in everything. Lack makes the existing part precious because of imperfection; Lack makes the blank space infinitely beautiful because of people's infinite imagination. There is a "lack" of perfection is complete. In this case, "lack" may not leave regrets!
Since perfection is not necessarily beautiful and lack is not necessarily regrettable, why pursue the so-called perfection? Why not leave life blank?
Blanking is a blank left in painting and calligraphy. Blanking is as important as composition. It is not a part of the concept of "painting after leisure", but a concept with artistic value as pen and ink itself. The size and position of blank space affect the aesthetic feeling of calligraphy and painting.
The same is true of the picture scroll of life, and the works that are not filled with blanks are flawed. So, give up the unrealistic fantasy of perfection. Try your best to fill the shortcomings that cannot exist, face the shortcomings that cannot be eliminated, and appreciate the perfect shortcomings.
Leave a blank for life!