Chapter 149: One Hundred and Forty-Nine: The Fisherman and the Rich
"Brother, the people from the Investigation Bureau said that the rats have appeared again, but I don't worry about you and your sister at home, what should I do?"
"You go and run errands, there is a little in the family, and besides, my brother is not the powerless person he used to be. ”
Berry shook her head to indicate that she couldn't see it. Yuan Quan had no choice but to take out the sword he had forged: "You try if you can hold it?"
After Xiaoberry took the sword, he heard a clang, Xiaoberry looked at Yuan Quan with a surprised face, and then looked at the sword: "Brother, you ......."
Yuan Quan winked at her and gave her a thumbs up: "My brother has been working hard, although I can't help you now, I won't hold you back anymore." ”
Xiaoberry threw herself into Yuan Quan's arms and rubbed it, and said happily: "Brother, you are so bad, you don't tell us when you practice alone......"
After being tired and crooked for a while, Xiaoberry jumped away, and Su Li also went out to find her best friend and say something that only a woman would understand. At night, only Yuan Quan and Xiaoxiao were left at home.
Only he knows what kind of strength Yuan Quan is, but no one has ever touched Yuan Quan at the moment, and the only one who can be used as a ruler is Xiao Yun, but Xiao Yun is not there!
took advantage of this time to open his mailbox, Yuan Quan has not dealt with the emails and fans in the mailbox for a long time, and most of them still have questions about relationships, such as long-distance relationships or the other party's cheating. In fact, there is nothing to ask about this kind of question at all, according to Yuan Quan's answer is one word: points.
The above questions are based on the premise that both parties intend to get married. The main obstacle to long-distance relationships is the obstacle of parents, and now that the generation of people who talk about marriage is mostly the only child in the family, parents value their children more than their own lives, they will not agree to their children going to other places, they can only meet once or twice a year, and then worry that their children will not adapt to the climate or diet there.
One of the emails is quite interesting, adapted from a story I heard when I was a child:
A fisherman was lying on a couch by the sea and was basking in the sun leisurely, and a rich man came over and chatted with the fisherman. The rich man asked the fisherman, don't you have to go out to sea to fish today?
The fisherman replied to him that he had been there yesterday, and that he did not have to go every day, as long as he had enough to eat.
The rich man told him that you could make a lot of money by working harder, catching more fish and selling them.
The fisherman asked him rhetorically, what is he doing with all his hard work?
The rich man said that with a lot of money, you can buy a big boat, you can catch more fish, earn more money, and then retire, just like me, you can lie on the beach and bask in the sun and enjoy life.
The fisherman smiled and said, I am basking in the sun and enjoying life now.
This story is very interesting, the rich man wants the sunshine and leisurely life, and the fisherman does not have to work so hard.
However, if you think about it, although the fisherman and the rich man lie together on the beach and bask in the sun, there is an essential difference between the two: the rich man has more choices than the fisherman. The rich man could lie here in the sun for months on end, as long as he wanted, but the fisherman could not, he could not do it every day, and he had to fish in the sea.
When they are sick, the rich can go to a better hospital and get better treatment, and their children can go to a better school and get a better education...
And these things, the fisherman has no choice.
Compared with a life that doesn't work hard, in the end, it's actually one more choice.
There are even those who feel that the fisherman said too much, and help the rich fight back, expanding the original story:
The rich man smiled and said, "After sunbathing on the beach for a while, I will go back to the villa and have a wonderful dinner with my beautiful wife and lovely children." And my parents live in the same comfortable and warm home, and they are well cared for. My loved ones and I don't have to worry about looking down on the sick, not having enough food or clothing, and not worrying about being looked down upon and scorned, and they live happily and with dignity.
And when you're done lying on the beach, you'll have to go back to your broken fishing boat and watch your wife, children, and parents and parents eating a cold meal with a sad face. They can't afford to get sick, they can't eat, they can't even wear warm clothes, and they can't talk about pursuit and dignity. So why are you so embarrassed to lie on the beach with me and bask in the sun now? Go fishing diligently, and don't be lazy.
This story seems to be a correction of the poisonous chicken soup in the past, this story is wrong, we should work hard for a better life in the future.
So how about this correction of the story of the past? Not very well.
Is human motivation endless? Where does the motivation for human effort come from? Is it possible for us to keep working hard as long as we want to?
The answer is no, human motivation is limited, motivation comes from willpower, and we can't work hard all the time. Willpower needs to be replenished just like providing us with energy, just like people need to go home at night after a day of work and have a good night's sleep.
The human brain can't be tense all the time, our brain won't let us keep working hard, there will always be a period of relaxation. Just like the students before the college entrance examination, the motivation that provides us to work hard is the carnival after the college entrance examination, or the beautiful summer vacation, or the ideal university and the life we look forward to....... If each of us maintains the energy and learning efficiency of the third year of high school all our lives, no one knows how high we can climb. But is it possible?
And from the actions and manners of the rich man, what was the purpose of his coming to the beach? Generally, when a person wants to rest and vacation, it is when he is tired, and he does not have enough motivation to continue to work hard. So doesn't that rich man have a day off?
Fishermen are supplementing their motivation. And according to the current concept of environmental protection, this action of the fisherman is more in line with sustainable development!
Does anyone know if a rich man is a rich man because his wealth is inherited through his own efforts or from his elders?
Only those who have ever fished on a boat know that fishing is a fortunate and dangerous thing. Would the life of a fisherman be easier than that of the rich? If you had to choose, who wouldn't want to be a white-collar worker and become a fisherman?
Is it advisable for a brainless person to support a higher position than oneself?
We need to work hard, we need to struggle, but more importantly, we need to be efficient, not ineffective efforts! A person goes to work every day, but he doesn't do anything in his post, and he is messing around every day; some people only work four hours a day, but they are always thinking about how to make the company better. Which one is more worthy of our learning?