People have to face many contradictions and difficulties. The most classic example is a fable story about a father and a son driving a donkey into the city. The father rode a donkey alone, the son rode a donkey alone, and two people rode a donkey. Both of them walked without riding, and they were accused by passers-by. In fact, public opinion is often so that people can't agree with it. People should consider public opinion, but they should not rely too much on it, otherwise they may not be able to do anything.

People often face choices. Small decisions are enough, and some are principled choices, such as: lead an honest and clean life, or go with the flow? Do you insist on your own personality and pursuit, or do you follow the crowd? Is there a moral bottom line, or is everything from self-consideration to interest?

Human affairs are often elusive. Often at that time, you think you made the wisest choice, but the result is all wet. Not only is it difficult to judge right from wrong, but the future is also unpredictable. It is difficult for people to identify and grasp true and false, good and evil. Fakes are rampant, even hospitals may sell fake drugs, and even beautiful women can fake them. Hypocrites are hard to distinguish, and people often regard secretive people as friends or lovers. Sometimes, people may encounter such depressing and even annoying situations as "doing bad things with good intentions" or "not being rewarded with good intentions", which makes you find it difficult to be a good person.

People often can't tell beauty from ugliness. There are all kinds of fashionable clothes, and many exotic clothes advocated by the fashion world make people wonder how to appreciate or even accept them. Abstraction, avant-garde and fauvism paintings, literature and movies are also regarded as masterpieces by some people, and even showing filth and ugliness is also a kind of beauty. Maybe it is valuable from a speculative point of view, from the author's rebellious thoughts or personal creativity, but when it becomes fashionable, our generation of mediocre people can't help but ask, what's wrong with the world, do we need so much distorted beauty? Should we study the comments of so-called aesthetic experts and learn to appreciate these things, or should we not be afraid of being called "old-fashioned", keep our aesthetic taste and stay away from these works of art?

In fact, there are contradictions in this society, and there are contradictions among people themselves. Man is a contradiction. Freud divided people into three levels (parts) from the perspective of human nature: id, ego and superego. There will also be conflicts and collisions between human rationality and wildness, which can be appreciated and understood in many excellent literary masterpieces of psychological description. Because of this, it is sometimes difficult for people to control themselves (for example, when they are drunk or stimulated), and people are often in a dilemma between exerting their instincts and limiting them.

Many people have said things like "It's tiring to be alive" or "It's hard to be a man". This usually stems from mental difficulties. It should be said that predecessors had similar troubles and puzzles, but contemporary people's are unprecedentedly fierce. In the materialistic contemporary age, under the crisis of belief, and today when the spirit is generally empty and the culture is barren, people often can't find their own spiritual home and unified code of conduct. Law is naturally a fair rule, but it is cold and impersonal, and many things are not necessarily suitable for legal solution. Especially on the spiritual level, the significance of law is not great, because the law first restricts and guides people's behavior rather than their thoughts.

There are indeed many difficulties in being a man, but I still love this life, and I still cherish my living time. Huo Da's "Muslim Funeral" said that "although life is hard, life is precious after all", which I think is wonderful.