Chapter 560 Living for Beauty, or for Wealth

To live for the good, or for the rich Zhang Baotong 515

Last night, I watched a Thai movie called "Teacher's Diary" about San, a former wrestler, who becomes a teacher at an elementary school in Ba District. The school is located in a vast area of water surrounded by mountains, and to reach this school you have to set off early in the morning and trek for several hours. The school was built for the children of fishermen in the dam area. There are only 4 students in the school, but they are all in different grades. The conditions at school were extremely difficult, with no water, electricity or signal, and Sang felt like he was living on an island, very lonely. The only thing that can help Sang cope with his loneliness is to read a diary left by his former teacher, Anne. The diary records the life of Anne and the other teachers here, and gives the school the nickname "The Dumped School" because, in addition to the hardships of life, each teacher broke up with his lover. Anne kept a detailed account of her teaching career here in her diary, and as time went on, San's desire to meet Anne grew stronger. By chance, Anne returned to the Ba District Primary School, and by this time Sang had already left. Anne found her diary, but found a continuation of Sang in the diary, and Sang wrote down all his joys, sorrows, and sorrows in the diary, and also expressed his desire to see Anne.

The story in the film is touching and the plot is beautiful, and it is one of the most wonderful movies about teachers I have ever seen. It was already midnight after watching the movie. Because some of the plots and images of the movie have been lingering in my mind, making me lie in bed but can't sleep for a long time. Anne and Sang have experienced so many hard and beautiful life stories in the Ba District School, and I can't help but start thinking about the meaning of life again: yes, are we coming to the world to pursue the beauty of life, or are we pursuing the wealth of life?

The reason why I want to compare the beauty of life with wealth as the pursuit of life is because I feel that many young people now almost regard the wealth of life as the pursuit of a good life, and make more money as the embodiment of the value of life. In "Teacher's Diary", we do not see that people are pursuing wealth, but that many beautiful stories take place in poor and difficult places. It seems that there is always more beauty in the soil of poverty and hardship, because there are people who are trying to change the face of it.

After retiring, a long-time foreign affairs couple came to teach in a remote primary school in Yunnan Province, using their salaries to buy teaching supplies for the school and books for students. A peasant couple has been guarding an uninhabited island in Hainan for the motherland for twenty or thirty years. There is also a couple in their 60s on the Gobi Desert, who are constantly planting trees every day to control the wind and sand. They do this because there is a responsibility that floats in their hearts like a flag at all times. Their work and life are very ordinary, very ordinary, and even a little boring and monotonous, but they can persevere. What is moving, what is greatness? Unswerving determination is moving, and enduring ordinariness is greatness. Just like in "The Teacher's Diary", everything Anne and Sang do for their students is also extremely trivial and mundane. However, their willingness and realm to dedicate their youth to the education of the fishermen's children in the dam area are noble and great.

There are still many difficult working environments in our country, and there are many poor and backward places, which need countless people with lofty ideals to pioneer, and even more so, countless young generations to dedicate. This is a kind of grinding, but also a responsibility. Only when a person's ordinariness is linked to the needs of the country can the ordinariness become a heavy responsibility and a touching and moving force.

The pursuit of beauty and the pursuit of wealth are two cars running on two roads. The pursuit of beauty requires hard work, silkworms and butterflies, and even rebirth. It was a process of life ordeal and tempering. The pursuit of wealth is for a kind of fine clothes and food, comfortable and comfortable pleasure. Comfort and timely pleasure will make people abandon their ideals and not want to make progress, so that people's hearts will be dulled, they will feel numb, and they will lose their pursuit of freshness and beauty. In addition, wealth can also make people delicate, lazy, arrogant, and willful.

Although some people get rich through hard work, there are also some people who get rich overnight. A person I know turned out to be a project manager in the railway engineering department, and in order to get millions of project funds, he did not hesitate to cause huge losses of tens of millions of railway projects. In addition, in order to obtain more than 500,000 yuan in the construction money, a unit leader on the upper floor of the railway family building where we lived in the past often had problems with the quality of the project. Therefore, as soon as everyone saw him, they pointed at him behind his back and scolded him.

It can be seen that there is a very different difference between being a noble and great person and being a rich and rich person. Just as planting melons and reaping melons and planting beans to get beans, the path of growth in the pursuit of a beautiful life and the pursuit of wealth in life is also different. We can cite many people who could have lived a rich life, but abandoned a rich life to pursue a better life. A life of wealth often refers to a life that surpasses ordinary people in terms of material life. However, one's material needs for life are very limited. The simple life is three meals a day, a bed at night, and a beloved woman. However, many people are not satisfied with three meals a day and a bed at night. They have to live in bigger and bigger houses, drive more and more expensive luxury cars, and constantly change the women around them. They earn more and more money, and they are less and less happy. And a person who pursues beauty, even if he only has a simple bag on him, no matter where he goes, there will be simple and kind people waiting for him and grateful to him. Because everything he does is for the sake of others, for the sake of others, to make life better for others. Whether he is on the journey of life or standing at the peak of his dreams, the scenery and infinite scenery along the way will make him pleasing to the eye and satisfied.

For life, everyone has a dream of their own, because there is a dream, there will be something to pursue. Pursuit, like a ship, carries people forward in the ocean of life. It is like a beacon that guides and illuminates us in our quest for that good life. Life is a lifetime, grass and trees are autumn, life is short, in the blink of an eye is a hundred years. Whether we should make life beautiful or rich is a question and a choice for each of us to ponder. In today's society, the Chinese nation's traditional concept that "the rich and the rich cannot be lewd, the poor and the lowly cannot be moved, and the mighty cannot be bent" has been indifferent, while "some people look at money" are in the dust. Money has almost become a measure of a person's success. This is very sad.

A few years ago, when I was a secretary in the school, I invited a leader from a superior unit to come to the school to give a lecture on teacher ethics to the teachers. What he told the teachers turned out to be wealth, that is, either rich or noble. I don't know how the teachers felt when they heard it, but I frowned when I heard it. I don't think teachers can pursue either rich or expensive, and we people from all walks of life can't pursue either rich or expensive. This is a terrible pursuit, and it will deviate from the right track of the great rejuvenation of our nation. Wealth cannot be discussed with beauty. Beauty is a kind heart, noble realm, a kind of spiritual character and feeling that makes people yearn for and move. Wealth is a kind of show-off of the rich and powerful, a kind of selfishness and shallowness. The beauty of life requires a good mind and personality as a norm, and to be a rich person as long as he has enough money, and it doesn't matter where he gets the money.

In my mind, I despise the aristocratic spirit, and I admire it more for breaking through and starting a business. Because there are more hardships and passions in breaking through and starting a business, there are more beauty and touches in hardships and passions. These are the most valuable and respectable things in life. Of course, wealth is also a manifestation of the beauty of life. However, this kind of wealth must have a diligent and enterprising personality, and must have the quality of "worrying about the worries of the world first, and enjoying the joy of the world after the world". However, the rampant materialism and the intensification of wealth and poverty have made many people eager to make a fortune and live a rich and prosperous life with no worries about food and clothing, but also made many people unwilling to work hard in difficult places to take risks. This is precisely the manifestation of the decay and degradation of our will and spirit. We can think about it, if a person has no ideals and beliefs, no goal pursuit, and just enjoys comfort all day long, then will his life still be enviable?

Whenever we idle our eyes and let our thoughts fly far, far away, we can see our dreams. That dream will always haunt our minds, tempting us to fly over there. It's beautiful, it's very inviting, as if we have a lifelong wish. However, it is a long, far away place, and you need to climb mountains and wade through water, walk through ice and snow, and go through a thousand difficulties and dangers, just like climbing Mount Everest. Are you willing to endure this hardship and dare to take this risk?

You may say, I don't want to suffer this, and I don't want to take this risk. Then you can only take a walk on the edge of the city river, but you can't enjoy the infinite scenery of climbing to the top of Mount Everest. There are many choices in life, but different choices will have different scenery and feelings. So, are your life scenery and feelings wonderful?