The sustenance of the soul Zhang Baotong 2017.11.9

Man is a very strange animal, when he is busy, he always hopes to be idle and have a good rest, but when he is really idle, he feels empty and irritable. I often feel like I wake up in the morning and feel very depressed, not knowing what I should do today, and I can't think of what to do. In fact, I thought of some things, but none of them were what I wanted to do. So, just stay at the computer and think nonsense. After thinking about it for a long time, I still didn't think of what to do, so I was helpless, so I lay lazily on the bed. At first, I didn't pay much attention to this kind of behavior, but after a long time, I realized that it was a state of emptiness of the mind, a manifestation of the lack of sustenance of the soul.

I think people should always know what they want to do and what they need. And these things can be relied on when you are lonely and idle, and can find comfort and happiness from them. This way, you won't feel idle, lonely, and irritable. Usually, I write in front of the computer in the morning, and after lunch, I go to play table tennis. These two things are almost my two biggest hobbies every day or even in my life. If the electricity runs out one day, you can't write, or the activity room is not open for some reason, and you can't play ball. I would feel irritable and overwhelmed. In fact, people always have something to do and always want to do what they like. In this way, you will feel full and satisfied in your soul.

A few days ago, as soon as my wife came home, she complained that my father-in-law and mother-in-law had gone out to pick up trash again, which made her brothers and sisters very angry, thinking that her parents were almost 90 years old, and both had retirement salaries. As soon as I heard this, I said that they didn't know how to play cards and chess, and they didn't have any other hobbies, so they let them do whatever they wanted as long as they were happy. Picking up junk doesn't sound good, but it's much better than them sitting at home all day and not going out. After hearing my words, my wife immediately changed her attitude and called her siblings to tell them to stop preventing their parents from going out to pick up the rubbish.

The sustenance of the soul is to comprehend oneself and to satisfy the desire of the soul. If the soul has sustenance, it will not be lonely. After his father died, his mother lived alone in her hometown in Hunan. Because my brother, my brother and my sister are all in the local area, I always send money to my mother every month and only come home once every two or three years. Once when I went home for the Chinese New Year, I heard my mother say that she was looking forward to me coming home for the New Year, and when she heard that I was going to come back, she started to smoke fish for a few days a month or two ago, and she started looking for someone to smoke fish, because she knew that I loved to eat smoked fish from my hometown. When I got home, my mother would talk to me late into the night every night, as if there was always something to say. If I didn't come home, my mother would be very disappointed and would call and say that she hadn't been able to see me for a year. After hearing this, I thought that my mother had no job and no education, and her greatest wish in life was to hope that we could live happily and prosper. We are the sustenance of her soul and the comfort of life. Since then, I have been going home every year to spend the New Year with my mother.

The sustenance of the soul is also the comfort of the soul, a kind of spiritual stretch and yearning, and a kind of pleasure and pleasure of the soul. It allows us to understand the true feelings of the world, to pursue freedom and optimism, and to be our true selves. I remember when I was 45 years old, I had a serious spiritual crisis. In that year, the unit again underwent cadre adjustments. According to my outstanding performance and performance, I should have been the section chief a few years ago, but I was inexplicably missed. In this adjustment, the leader actually promoted my apprentice to the section chief, and I was still the deputy section member. At the time, I was so depressed that I didn't even want to go into the building. So, I took more than 20 days of sick leave and went to Danfeng in southern Shaanxi alone. The air in the mountains is fresh, the scenery is beautiful, and the folk customs are simple. However, it was very inconvenient to take a shower and relieve hands, and there were lice and fleas on the bed and under the quilt. I can't sleep well at night. So, I stayed for only five or six days and left. This incident made me see how miserable the peasants in the mountains were, but they were not alive all the same.

Whether or not you are happy in life does not depend entirely on material conditions. Sustenance and comfort for the soul are also very important. What is the meaning of life? Actually, it is different for everyone. The grass has the happiness of the grass, and the big tree has the feelings of the tree. It's not that the chief of the section will necessarily live better than the clerk, nor will the president necessarily be happier than the farmer. The happiness and joy of life do not depend on the ordinariness and greatness of the purpose of life, but on the circumstances and wisdom of life. Different people have different spiritual sustenance.

A person likes something or likes someone for no reason, as long as it satisfies his psychological needs and makes him happy. There is a saying that a high position is not as good as a high salary, a high salary is not as good as a high life, and a high life is not as good as happiness. Man lives to be happy. And the sustenance of the soul is to make people feel peaceful and happy. As long as a person focuses on a certain thing or activity, and derives spiritual satisfaction from it, so that the mood can be happy, it is the soul that has sustenance. Therefore, we call the sustenance of the soul our spiritual home and paradise.