Work & PlayZhang Baotong 2018.9.25

To live, people have to eat and support their families, so they have to work. However, people live to make themselves happy. And the way to make people happy is to have fun. We see U.S. presidents*** spending their weekends on the golf course after a week at work. Russian President Vladimir Putin has a wider range of entertainment, including ice hockey, wrestling, judo, swimming, hunting, fishing, and raising dogs.

For the vast majority of people, work is much more important than entertainment. Because work will pay you, so that you can have food and shelter and live a normal life. Last night, I saw the story of Zhang Weihua, a young man from Chongqing, in Phoenix Satellite TV's "Cold and Warm Life". He won the belt at last year's World Boxing Championship, but he still works as a food delivery. As a professional athlete, you should have made a living from sports. However, because the income of a professional boxer in China is very low, he has to rely on part-time food delivery to ensure his daily life and training.

In situations like this, when there is a contradiction and confrontation between work and play, most people will take the initiative to give up entertainment and focus on work. Because entertainment is optional, but work is essential. I remember when I was a freshman in high school, I was obsessed with playing table tennis and determined to make it to the provincial team, so I was busy playing from 5 am to 10 pm every day, and my academic performance declined. The homeroom teacher harshly criticized me in the class and forbade me to play outside of class. After about a month, my academic performance came up again, and he lifted the ban on me. Because the teacher knew that I would not be able to enter the provincial team at all, and my future future would have to be supported by study.

There is a young man who owns a restaurant and is particularly fascinated by playing ball, and comes to our community to play between 2 and 5 p.m. every day. This may have affected some business somewhat. For this reason, his wife got angry with him several times and threatened him with divorce, so that he didn't dare to play again every day, but only once every two or three days. In the fall, the business of the restaurant started to get busy, and he could only come once or twice a week. Because if the business is not done well, not only will you not be able to make money, but you will also have to lose money.

For those who have a job, they usually do activities in the evenings and on weekends. In the past, when I was the school secretary, I always gathered some golfers to come to the school to play from 7 to 9 p.m. Because it does not affect the normal work, there are more people who come to play. However, there are also some people who can't grasp themselves, and it is easy to have problems. There is a young man in our unit who loves to play mahjong, and he often plays all night, and he can't go to work the next morning. When the leader called him, he said that he had diarrhea, either he had a cold, or there was an emergency at home, or his parents were sick. In fact, his colleagues all know that he played mahjong last night. It was only because his father was the superior of our unit leader that he was not transferred.

I have been obsessed with playing table tennis all my life. Since I was in my second year of junior high school, I have set myself two goals in life: one is to be a middle school teacher, and the other is to become a writer. The reason for being a secondary school teacher is that I admire the homeroom teacher more, not only does he teach well, but he also plays the ball well. And if you want to play, you have to be a teacher, because only in schools will there be a table, so you can have time to play. This is one of the few professions where you can combine your hobbies with your work.

Some people don't understand when they see me playing all day, and they say, "You're playing all day, you're wasting your time." I just wanted to ask, "Why are you spending so much time when you don't play?" In fact, they have no idea about the benefits of playing. It can not only keep the body flexible and healthy, but also can hone people's quality and will, and make some golfers with similar interests. A person with good interests and hobbies will at least not make friends with foxes and dogs, and will not spend too much time eating, drinking, playing cards and gambling. With this alone, good interests and hobbies are indispensable.

Especially after retirement, if you have a hobby, you won't feel like you have nothing to do. Under the tree downstairs of us, from seven or eight o'clock in the summer, some old men began to play chess together, and they played until seven or eight o'clock in the evening. That's a lot busier than going to work, and it's a lot happier than going to work. And some people who don't have any hobbies, after retirement, are like losing themselves, and within a few days they will be sick and wilted, either their bodies will collapse, or they will become lonely, and they will be gone in a few years.

If you want to live a good life in this life, you have to work and play at the same time. The British famously say: work attentively when you work, and entertain when you play. Don't think that entertainment is a waste of time or is optional. Entertainment can not only make people fit and relax, enrich their spare time, but also cultivate and cultivate people's good character, sentiment and communication skills, and provide new ideas for work. He likes to play bridge, Einstein likes to play the violin, Clinton likes to play the saxophone, and Xu Xiake likes to climb mountains. Their hobbies have not affected their work, but have helped them immeasurably in their careers and success. Conversely, we have seen people who spend their time at work and careers dying young at a young age. Zhuge Liang was 54 years old when he died, Sun Yat-sen was 41 years old when he died, Wang Bo was 26 years old when he died, and Huo Quzhi was only 23 years old when he died. Their premature death has made many people sigh and regret it.

Long hours and excessive work and labor can easily cause people to be tired, worried and irritable, which is an important reason for accelerating the human body to get sick and die prematurely. Modern science has proven that recreation and hobbies not only strengthen the body, reduce illness, but also make people feel relaxed and happy. Happiness is the most healthy lifestyle for people to be physically and mentally healthy and less prone to diseases. So, in many countries, after four or five days of work, people need to take one or two days off, which is called a weekend.

Of course, there are some lucky people whose job is their entertainment and hobbies. For example, athletes and writers, such as academics and scientists. For them, every day is a holiday. And the arrival of ordinary holidays can only make them interrupt their work very reluctantly. So, it can be seen that many people will take the initiative to work overtime.

But the vast majority of people are not so lucky, they feel that their work is just a means of earning a living, so they don't love their work. However, work is important to everyone, whether you love it or not, you must do your best to take it seriously and complete it satisfactorily. This feeling often makes you feel hard and helpless. However, there is no way, because whether you are an engineer or a scientist, whether you are a worker or a farmer, you must rely on your work and labor for payment. If you want to change this feeling, you have to change your attitude first, and that is to treat work as a pleasure. There is a saying: if you treat work as a pleasure, life is heaven. It's just that it's very difficult to do this, and you need to have a high IQ and a high level of realm.

For work and play, there are three realms worth pursuing: one is to find a job that you love, the second is to strive to treat work as happiness, and the third is to reasonably handle the relationship between work and entertainment. If you reach any of these levels, you will feel that you are living an easy, happy, and rich life.