There is a famous saying, "Satisfied day by day, degenerated day by day." The so-called contentment means knowing that contentment has been achieved, and contentment emphasizes a state of mind. In our life, many things are fair. God is not partial to anyone, and there is no distinction between high and low. Therefore, everyone should learn to be content and not complain every day.
Liu Yuxi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, is a veritable "contented person". Even though he was demoted, he was still happy every day. The local local officials bullied him and demoted him, only giving him a very humble hut, so he wrote the famous poem My Humble Room Inscription. It was because he was satisfied with his life that he was able to write one famous poem after another in poverty.
During the Three Kingdoms period, Zhou Yu was a very prestigious counselor of the State of Wu, and he also made a lot of contributions to the State of Wu, and his intelligence was higher than that of ordinary people. However, because he was dissatisfied and jealous of Zhuge Liang's talent, he felt that Zhuge Liang was smarter than himself and opposed Zhuge Liang everywhere, so that he was clever many times in the end and was mistaken by cleverness. Before he finally got angry, he said, "Why should I be born?" . I was so greedy before I died that I ended up like that. If he is a contented person, then it may not be Shu that dominates the country for a long time, so this tells us that if people are contented, they will fall to the end of extinction.
Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft Corporation, studied at Harvard University, a prestigious university. However, people who enter this world-famous school are generally reluctant to drop out of school automatically after being admitted, but Bill Gates did it. He hoped that the other two people would drop out of school with him to study a project that few people studied at that time. But they refused because they didn't want to drop out of school because of a successful project, but Bill Gates succeeded. So this tells us when we should be satisfied and when we should not be satisfied.
In Mencius' famous saying "Fish is not what I want", which we recently learned, he said that some people accepted the gift of "Wan Zhong". What's good for me? This tells us to be content, and to be content with wages and money. Satisfaction is the foundation of our life!
So remember, if you learn to be content, you will have a bright heart and less troubles. Only by learning to be content can we better understand the hardships, difficulties and happiness of life. Only when everyone knows how to be contented can our big social family be harmonious, calm and sincere.