33. The meaning of slow
Entering April 2015, the stock market continued the fast bull market this year, data from the Zhongdeng settlement center show that since November last year, as of February this year, the number of new accounts opened in A shares has exceeded one million in a single month for four consecutive months. In the face of www.biquge.info hot market, many people are no longer satisfied with the current "fast cow", they complain that this "cow" is not going fast, so making money is too slow, and they want a "mad cow".
In an article published in the "Reader's Reference Series" called "China that can't slow down", we know that it is difficult to slow down. Chinese education is urgent, lest they lose at the starting line; Chinese are in a hurry, they want to cut the queue for small things, and go through the back door for big things; Chinese drive in a hurry, hesitate in front and press Didi in the back; Chinese people are also anxious to take the bus, never queue up, all rely on drilling and crowding; Chinese is in a hurry to make a fortune, cheating, abducting, and bending the law for bribes, he can't wait to rectify him by hundreds of millions...... That's why the media says we're all "******".
In fact, life can indeed be slowed down and let the mood settle a little in the quiet, which may be the most needed attitude to life for urban people at present. We don't know that slow life is a kind of life attitude, a healthy mentality, a positive struggle, and a high degree of self-confidence in life. The concept of "slow life" is the same as life concepts such as "living in the moment" and "environmental protection". The concept of slow life was put forward very early and is a series of slow lifestyles developed by the "Slow Food Movement" to remind people living in an era of rapid development to slow down and pay attention to the mind, environment and tradition, and to slow down appropriately in work and life. Slow life is not about procrastinating time, but about allowing people to find balance in life, relax and combine work and rest, improve the quality of life, and enhance happiness.
In 1986, the Italian writer Carlo Pisuni called for "not forgetting to enjoy the food of your homeland, even in the busiest of times". In 1989, the "International Slow Food Movement" officially began in Paris, France. In 1999, the first "Slow City International Conference" was held in Orvito, Italy. In the "slow city", there is more space and green space for people to relax, electronic signage and neon signs can be less or less, and 20 kilometers per hour is considered the optimal speed of a car.
In the 2015 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, the song "Once Upon a Time" was performed by Liu Huan affectionately, which resonated with countless people. Yes, "The old days have become slow/Cars, horses, and mail are slow/There is only enough to love one person in a lifetime/The locks in the past are also beautiful/The keys are beautiful and beautiful/If you lock it, people will understand". Liu Huyi's original composition is "Once Upon a Time", which makes people feel like warm sunshine after listening to it.
But, are we slow? After the Spring Festival in 2015, one of my high school classmates passed away due to overwork. When the wild fun and leisure are getting farther and farther away from us, when the pressure of the workplace makes us gradually short of breath, when overwork and depression begin to come. All this has to make us reflect on the "unbearable fast" way of life. The famous writer Milan Kundera, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, once asked in the book, "How did the pleasure of slowness be lost?" He sighed: "Where have the idle people gone in ancient times? Where are the idle heroes in the folk songs, the homeless people who roam the mills and spend the night in the open air? Have they disappeared with country lanes, grasslands, glades, and nature? From his questions, it is not difficult to see the importance of nature to leisurely living.
Perhaps poisoned by Zhang Ailing's sentence "to become famous is to become early", we are eager to earn enough money to buy a house as soon as possible, be promoted as soon as possible, realize our travel dreams as soon as possible, and live a comfortable life when we are relatively young. For a while, I said to myself: "If you can live for 100 years, including 30 years for sleeping, 10 years for eating, 7 years for dressing and grooming, 7 years for walking and traveling, 1 year and a half on the phone, 1 year and 10 months for no one to answer the phone, 4 years for watching TV, 12 years for surfing the Internet, 1 year and 8 months for looking for things, 1 year and a half for shopping, fighting when you are young, husband and wife quarreling after starting a family, scolding and scolding children after having children and removing them for 5 years, gossiping for 70 days, blowing your nose for 10 days, cutting your nails for 15 days, and fornicating for 8 days, The final remaining time is 10 years. What can you do in 10 years? So, I rushed forward desperately, I was extremely anxious, I was afraid that I would not be able to do it. Thereupon...... I'm what I am now: no human being, no ghost, no ghost.
That's when I started asking myself, if I was slow, would I be a loser? However, it was too late. I once said, "The world is so fast that I have to run so fast to catch up with it." But it's not all my fault, this society is too impetuous, the pace is too fast, there are too many temptations, we are easy to lose ourselves, we need to ask ourselves from time to time, is everything really too late? Is it okay to take your time? In 1986, the Italian writer Carlo Pisuni called for "not forgetting to enjoy the food of your homeland, even in the busiest of times". A global wave of "slow living" has affected our lives.
Slowness is not sluggishness, nor laziness, but calmness, elegance, and wisdom. Sometimes we are so fast that we don't have time to pay attention to the scenery around us. Slow is a kind of calmness, a kind of perception, and a kind of artistic conception. Why are we in a hurry? At the end of the day, it's a winning mentality. Comparison, most Chinese love comparison. In this process, human nature is unconsciously distorted, and all kinds of problems begin to arise in ourselves and our society. After the train accident, many people are crying: China, slow down your pace. We are too fast, so fast that we don't know what we are busy with, and in the end, we let meaningless things make us very depressed, and even pay the price of our lives.
The mobile phone is ringing, the phone is urging, the favorite is "fast forward", the crazy point is "refreshing", the comment should grab the "sofa", the letter should be sent by express mail, the photo should be taken immediately, the train should be high-speed rail, the plane needs a direct flight, and the hope is to get rich overnight, and it is best to have a car and a house when getting married...... Many people are like non-stop spinning tops, as if they want to live every day like a war.
Mr. Lin Yutang once wrote in "The Feast of Life": "Only those who can be busy with the world's work can be busy with the world's leisure." People are not happy to be idle, not idle. If you are idle, you can read, you can visit famous places, you can make friends, you can drink alcohol, and you can write books. Which is the greater joy of the world? However, in the face of slow life, many people are shouting: "I don't have time!" I'm so busy! ”
In order to practice and promote slow life, people want to establish a "slow life international village" in Ya'an City, Sichuan Province. The International Slow City Management Committee has designated 2013 as the "Slow City Project Construction Year". It's just that the concept advocated by the "International Slow City" seems to be incompatible with the current situation, how to do it?
I have always had a wish: I want to set up a "slow fund". Before us, we did go too fast. Mr. Zhu is also too hardworking, in this materialistic world, he keeps moving forward and runs wildly without hesitation, but what did I get in the end?
If the first 30 years are too slow, and the next 30 years are too fast, I deeply feel the same way, and some people who are used to "slow" and "fast" are at a loss.
I'm so tired. Slow, slow.