In the world, the ups and downs of life make us at a loss. When we look back, the originally planned road has become a mess, and the reason is still chaos. Which is lighter or heavier has long been confusing. We are not on the verge of life and death, but who can tell the long future?
Faced with the choice of weight, Mencius said: Know the weight when you have the power.
In the "Chu-Han dispute", when the butcher asked him to choose "stab me" or "get out of my crotch", he chose the latter. "People in the city think they are cowards," but he swallowed it. After many years, this coward who suffered "the humiliation of his legs" finally took over his command in front of a hundred thousand troops.
If you prioritize, you will achieve great things.
If Han Xin turns it over and chooses to stab it, he will be beheaded by his sword, so I'm afraid there is only one nobody who would rather die than surrender in history. What's more, when the rut of history runs over him, he will disappear.
However, the ancients were not all so wise. Many of them have been pursuing everything they think is important all their lives, but in the end they have found nothing. Fortunately, they seized the important action for future generations. Although those actions are somewhat ambiguous, they are also remembered by history like Huaiyin Hou.
Recall 1200 years ago, there was a thin scholar who was suffering from a cold window hanging beam for ten years in order to get a corner seat at Qionglin banquet. However, he failed. On the night when the stars are sparse, only the quiet river and fragmented ambitions accompany him. At this time, the bell of Hanshan Temple rang in the distance, and the myriad emotions in his heart made him easily compose an eternal farewell song.
In his uneventful life, the most casual thing is probably this time. Later generations can remember the name "Zhang Ji" precisely because of his casual play on this seemingly ordinary night. And there is more than one such person? Gui Youguang ranks in the last eight places, but there is a book "Xuanzhi Biography of Ji Xiang". Perilla moved to Huangzhou to the left, and created two red wall poems. Wang Bo wanted to write the poems of Tengwangge, supplemented by preface and given priority to poetry, but people deeply remembered the preface of Tengwangge and forgot the poems.
In the long journey of life, we often pay attention to the insignificant constant pursuit, but sometimes the important thing is the casual episode of chasing the gap. Fortunately, our ancestors seized this important episode of life by mistake, and did not waste the limited life in meaningless fantasy, revenge and pursuit, so later generations remembered them, and the literary sky became brilliant because of their stop.
Looking back at the distant history, let alone whether we can distinguish between important and unimportant like Han Xin, we can talk about many ancient people's casual actions. If Zhang Ji hadn't written that well-known poem on impulse; If Gui Youguang doesn't listen to things outside the window after the second place, continue to study hard and waste time; If Su Shi is obsessed with official reinstatement; If Wang Bo is stingy with pen and ink and doesn't write down the preface of the poem ... Yes, it brings such a lucky aura, but I don't think everyone can be so lucky. Too many people reveal an eternal truth, and they will have no regrets: power, then know the weight, then know the weight and choose the weight!
Look at the balance of life. No matter how much weight you put on the plate on the right, you can never weigh all the important things on the plate on the left. Then you will know the weight and make people think!