Everyone longs for life to flow unimpeded like sea water, connected with the blue sky; Everyone longs for life to float freely from the sky like the wind, without a trace of concern except taking away white clouds. No one wants his life to be bound, just as no animal wants to be locked in a cage. A person's life is a process of trying to get rid of some kind of bondage, making life rich and colorful, full of opportunities, chewing failure and tasting success.
A person is not so much fighting for an ideal as fighting for getting rid of some kind of bondage. If we are born in a poor family, all our efforts may have only one purpose, and that is to get rid of poverty. Because poverty has brought us too many constraints, living in poverty can not be publicized and respected. Therefore, poor people are often more capable of self-improvement. Because there is enough motivation behind him: he wants to live a good life like a city dweller (although life in a city dweller may not be easy), and he wants to eat more and go further like a city dweller. These simplest ideals have just turned into the most lasting despair.
As soon as people get out of poverty, they will immediately strive for their social status, because the level of social status is directly related to a person's dignity. If a person's social status is low, just like the tail wolf in a group of wolves, he can only eat the last bite of meat and never get the best chance. Even the female wolf can't get the favor. The sad state of low social status is enough to urge any man and woman to use all their strength and methods to get rid of humility. Low social status is a very real pain. When college students at the bottom of society see classmates with family background, there are always people around them, being chased by girls, and no matter how big their lungs are, they will feel stuffy in their chests. Under this feeling, people who know that social status cannot be achieved overnight will strive for the improvement of social status with persistent and patient efforts (sometimes lifelong efforts), while those who have no patience will take dangerous actions and achieve their goals through flattery and deception. In the face of social status, vain and greedy people are particularly dangerous. Vanity is easy to ruin happiness for face, and greedy people are likely to ruin their lives for status, because status and money are the same. There is no satisfactory measure, and you can only feel it from the heart. It is very easy for a person to enter a dangerous place if he doesn't know enough when facing the temptation of status and power. But in any case, most people's life struggle is a process of improving their social status.
When people have a certain social status, they begin to demand spiritual liberation and freedom, hoping to get rid of the social restrictions on their hearts and spirits, which is a higher level of life struggle (of course, some great men can jump over the obstacles of poverty and social status and directly enter the realm of pursuing spiritual liberation). The statement that all men are created equal expresses not only a question of social status, but also a question of spiritual freedom. The essence of democratic appeal is to get rid of the shackles of ideology. Get spiritual equality. When we find that many fetters in the real world can't be freed, we hope our hearts can be liberated, and this process of getting rid of all kinds of fetters in our hearts is the process of great literature and philosophical thoughts. The main purpose of people's literary and philosophical thinking is to liberate their emotions and gain happiness and freedom.
If ordinary people's life struggle process is touching enough, then the success of another kind of people is even more shocking, that is, people who get rid of the shackles of physical disability and create miracles, because they often do things that even normal people can't do. Helen Keller was deaf and blind since she was a child, but finally she wrote beautiful words that made people tremble. Beethoven wrote the ninth symphony after he was deaf, Hawking wrote a brief history of time by finger movement in a wheelchair, and Sima Qian finished Historical Records after he was imprisoned. All the great achievements of these people have not got rid of the shackles of physical disabilities and released strong spiritual strength. There is Guanyin, the goddess of thousand hands who jumped out of deaf girls in China. Every movement affects people's nerves about beauty. I once met a Zhejiang student named Zuo Li, who was completely deaf since he was a child. Today, the world still mourns for him, but he has been studying in the university through his own efforts and has always been a good student. He can. Now he is going to study in the best university abroad, from lip reading Chinese to lip reading English. None of us who have good hearing can understand English well. In the face of students like Zuo Li, what can we complain about besides working hard?
I call people like Zuo Li the people who dance the most beautifully with restraint. In fact, there are some things that bind us in our life, whether it is poverty or social status, whether it is traditional customs or legal provisions. The struggle of life is the process of jumping out of a beautiful dance in bondage. Life without bondage seems frivolous and weightless, and the bondage of life and the efforts to get rid of it make our life heavy and beautiful. I have a deep understanding of snowboarding. In snowboarding, you must fix your feet firmly on the board, so that you will fall when you stand up in the smooth snow. In the process of fighting against snowboarding, you will be beaten black and blue, but as long as you stick to it, you will gradually find that snowboarding seems to be slowly melting into a part of your body and being used freely at your feet. With the help of veneer, you can roll forward and gallop forward, leaving a series of chic and beauty for your life.