It is also a kind of wisdom to hold your head high and your head down at the right time. Perhaps the beautiful treasure hidden by the roadside will glow with charming light at the moment when you nod your head and lower your eyebrows.
-inscription
One day more than two thousand years ago, in this land full of philosophy in ancient Greece, a young man asked Socrates, "How far is the distance between heaven and earth?" Socrates replied, "Three feet." The young man was puzzled. "But many of us are over five feet tall." As soon as the voice fell, Confucius in the west smiled and said, "So people should learn to bow their heads." In this way, the great sages injected a valuable attitude towards life into human blood with a seemingly ordinary sentence, which still radiates wisdom for thousands of years.
Perhaps in the eyes of many people, a gentleman should stand proudly between heaven and earth and never lower his stubborn head. As everyone knows, bowing your head is also a smart way of life, a great wisdom and a great realm.
Bowing your head is not a compromise, not a retreat, nor does it mean failure. It is a temporary concession, a clever detour, waiting for a new rise. Once upon a time, Gou Jian, the King of Yue, bowed to his knees and lost the dignity of a leader. After being humiliated, I finally won the world. Han Xin, a former general, bowed his head and endured humiliation in the harsh sarcasm of ordinary people, but in the end he spread his pride on the battlefield with flags flying, laying the foundation for the Han Dynasty. Once, the young Michelle Ye let the treacherous court official give orders with his head down, but after several years of experience and growth, he resolutely outwitted Ao Bai and created a prosperous time for Zhong Ming to eat, drink and be merry. Although they bowed their heads in humiliation for a while, they all believed that at that moment, they would hold their heads high one day, and finally they got a lasting legacy. So bowing your head became a buffer for recuperation. And if you persist in desperation and make unnecessary sacrifices, the result will only kill your will, lose yourself, and even lose the opportunity and courage to rise again.
Bowing your head is not inferiority, but a modest and practical demeanor. As a well-known folk proverb says: Keep your head down and your head high. Throughout history, Liu Huangshu once condescended to look after the thatched cottage, lowered his posture in Kong Ming's speech, humbly asked for advice, and temporarily lowered his head in exchange for the help of sages, which created the prosperity of Bashu. And the great revolutionary soldier, Mr. Lu Xun, also issued the oath of "bowing his head and being a willing ox", and worked diligently all his life to save the poor people from the mire with a pen as a gun. They don't have high heads, but they still shine in history, conveying a modest and prudent, unknown fighting spirit.
Faced with mistakes and temptations, we have to bow our heads. Bowing your head is like a sedative. Let's meditate, examine ourselves, stop rampaging blankly, stop striding forward anxiously, get a clear head from a low profile, get a peaceful mind, and travel lightly. When we are beaten black and blue by reality on the journey to realize our dreams, we might as well lower our heads and ignore the long road ahead, but take a short rest, feel the pleasant scenery around us and reap the warmth brought by family and friendship. When we look up again, you will find that we have gained a valuable optimism and tenacity at the moment of lowering our heads.
Franklin, a famous American politician and scientist, took "Remember to bow down" as his motto. In his view, a man must have pride, but he should not always hold his noble head high. If a person just blindly pursues the founder, will not be flexible and will not make a temporary compromise, then he will inevitably fall into a passive position in the cruel reality. Steel with hardness but no elasticity and toughness can't be called a fine product, but if the load is rotated into a rectangle, it will be difficult to move. Countless details in life show us: those who can be low, those who can be high; Only people who can bend can apply; Those who can be soft can be just; Those who can push can advance, which is the eternal essence of life and the eternal dialectics of nature.
So, we saw: in the snow valley, only those cedars who know how to bend branches can shake off the heavy snow and stand proudly in the snow; On the Gobi desert covered with gravel, only those grasses that learn to bow their heads and sprout and grow along the side of the boulder can enjoy the warm sunshine and breathe the fresh air. All this echoes the advice of Socrates, a wise man. We know the wisdom of bowing: bowing is not a compromise, but a reason to overcome difficulties; Bowing your head is not cowardice, but a sign of modesty and prudence; Bow your head not to fall, but to stand better and stronger. Learn to bow your head in order to have a brilliant attitude towards bad luck; Learning to bow your head means knowing how to look at vicissitudes in a higher realm. Bowing your head has undoubtedly become a wonderful art.
On the bumpy road of life, when many people can't wait to explore the road ahead, we might as well lower our heads and face the challenge in a smarter way. Maybe you will suddenly find that the treasure we have been looking for is shining under our feet!