Chapter 1001.The Goal of Life (Page 1/1)

The goal of life: Zhang Baotong 2018.11.28

A retired employee has a pension of 4,000 yuan a month, his wife's pension is also 3,000 yuan, and his son has married and started a family. It stands to reason that he can retire with peace of mind and enjoy peace. However, he either went to work as a door for other people's units, or picked up rags in the garbage cans in the community, and made himself scramble and disgraced all day long.

Someone asked him, "Why do you make so much money?" He said buy a house. In fact, he already has two or three houses. They asked him why he was buying so many houses, and he said he could rent them out, and they could appreciate in value. He then asked, "Why do you want that amount of money?" Can you spend it all? This question stopped him, because he usually doesn't smoke, drink, play cards, or look for women outside, and he has almost no money to spend. We know that people earn more money to satisfy material pursuits, but when he is busy working for others and picking up scraps all day long, how can he have time to pursue material comforts?

After telling this story, I can't help but ask: What is the purpose of human life? Some people may say that they are looking for a beloved beauty, or to taste all kinds of delicacies, or to see all the beautiful scenery in the world. This is perhaps the goal of many ordinary people in life. However, for people, this kind of life goal is too vulgar and superficial to be mentioned. People envy and admire those who are writers, generals, actors, singers, artists, athletes, big bosses, and bankers, because their goals in life are far higher than ordinary people. Their life achievements are also different, and their living conditions and material comforts are naturally admired and aspired to. Even Van Gogh's life experience of many disasters and destitute people will arouse the admiration and emulation of many people, because he has pursued noble goals all his life.

I've seen young people who would rather eat instant noodles all day and hide in a rented hut than go out to work to earn money and improve their lives. There are also some people who want to be painters, and they have painted all their lives, but they have not become famous, but they still do not give up, do not make money, do not get married, and continue to paint. In Hengdian, China's largest film and television base, thousands of extras, squatting on the side of the road and eating boxed lunches every day, hope to become a big star like Wang Baoqiang and Zhao Liying. As a result, young beauties are overflowing, because they can't find performance opportunities, and they often don't even have money for food, which is very bitter and miserable.

Seeing this, people can't help but ask: Why don't they go and find a job? Solve the problem of eating first, and then pursue their dreams in life. For young people, finding a job is really not difficult. However, they would rather starve and be poor, but they did not change their minds. It seems that earning money from ordinary part-time jobs is not their goal in life, what they hope is to make a lot of money like those acting stars, so they don't want to spend time and effort to earn money for this ordinary part-time job. There are many more such cases. There are some young authors who post their works online all year round, and although they don't have a penny of income, they still persevere and enjoy it. This unwavering spirit is touching, but their lives are worrying.

For a person, no matter how high your position is and how famous you are, three meals a day and a bed at night are indispensable. Otherwise, you will be in danger and danger, which is much more important than the reality of your life ideals and goals. A person can not be a writer, he can be an actor, but he must eat and sleep every day. Therefore, no matter how high a person's ideals are and how big his life goals are, he must first solve the problems of eating and sleeping, and relieve his worries, so that you can calm down and do what you want to do.

Take a look at Ba Jin and Mao Dun, as well as Zhou Xuan and Shu Qi, they are either children of rich families who don't have to worry about food and clothing, or children from poor families who must first find a job and then pursue their dreams in life. Including Lang Lang and Ding Junhui, it is also their parents who are doing everything to ensure their livelihood, so that they can succeed. However, for most young people who are struggling, their parents may not have the financial power to pave the way for you. Because the road to success is very difficult, even far more than the college entrance examination of thousands of troops and horses. We can think about it, every year thousands of colleges and universities across the country recruit hundreds of thousands of art students, Chinese students and performing arts students, but how many of them end up becoming painters, writers and actors?

Moreover, becoming a painter, writer and actor is not as simple as people think, it requires not only professional knowledge and skills, but also talent and luck, and even many unspoken rules that you don't even know. Each industry has its own circles and unspoken rules, which are very subtle, and people outside the circle can't understand or insert them at all. So, for an ordinary stranger, unless you have very outstanding abilities, it is really harder to get into that circle than to climb Mount Everest. Everyone knows that not everyone can reach the summit of Mount Everest, and not just anyone can climb it. According to statistics, only 1,800 people in the world have climbed Mount Everest from the southern slope of Nepal for decades, and more than 200 of them have unfortunately died. Achieving the noble goals of life is like climbing Mount Everest, which only a very small number of people can reach. Otherwise, we can see that many people are constantly giving up their goals in life, as if they are falling one by one in front of the battlefield.

Although achieving the goal of life is like climbing Mount Everest, it does not frighten people who want to climb Mount Everest. Life is to establish lofty ideals and goals, otherwise we are really too low, mediocre, and can only spend our lives in vain. Who in the world doesn't want to become a dragon and become a phoenix, to become famous, to get ahead, to glorify their ancestors? We want to succeed, and we work hard to achieve success for this. If we can't get what we want, but at least we have worked hard, because we have not achieved our goals in life because of lack of talent, lack of effort, bad luck or poor conditions, etc., but we have already possessed considerable talents and skills in a certain field through hard work and struggle. For example, in the field of fine arts, although we cannot become professional painters, we may become amateur painters, or become art teachers and amateurs. This should be a good result, because we are not born to be painters, and we don't have to be painters to live happily.

We don't have only one goal in life, we have other goals in life besides wanting to be a writer, a painter, an actor and a general. And each stage of life will have different goals. When we are in school, we need to study hard and become an honor student, and when we leave school, we need to find a better job. After that, you have to find a lover, get married, have children, and start a family. Life is like climbing a staircase, every time you go up a step, the height is different, the height is different, and the meaning of your life is different.

But of all the goals in life, there is one ultimate goal that will run through our whole life, and that is the noblest and most exciting goal in our hearts, which towers over our hearts like Mount Everest. No matter what changes occur in our lives, this goal should not be shaken. If we don't even have a goal, we really become a simple life form of "eating-living-living-eating" or "living-earning-earning-living-living". The meaning of life becomes shallow, vulgar and insignificant.

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