Jiang Xuns: The Most Beautiful Life Should Slow Down
The happiest moments often come before achieving dreams.
Human beings' difficulty lies in the feeling of happiness while also experiencing a sense of loss.
A person's happiest moment is often before their dreams are realized, when they are still full of hope for their dreams. Once dreams are achieved, a great deal of disappointment and loss inevitably follows.
Every time people yearn for, especially excessive passionate desire for an event to happen, when the event truly happens as expected, a sense of disappointment and ruin also follows.
I often tell my friends, if life is like a highway from birth to death, I'd rather take a different path. Life is only once, why should I rush through all the routes?
I feel that life should be like a road that can be paused at any time to walk slowly, rather than a highway that only emphasizes speed.
Today, most people hope that once they drive on the road of life, they can only step on the accelerator, without brakes. But don't forget, life needs brakes, life needs to constantly prepare for brakes, in order to maintain a stable direction. Stepping on the accelerator gives you speed, while stepping on the brakes gives you control and the ability to grasp.
Balance permeates life
Balance permeates life – we need to eat balance, dress balance, live balance, and finally return to the essence, even in terms of speed, balance is needed.
There is a saying called ‘the dilemma of advance and retreat’. It's neither forward nor backward, it has already lost balance and support. Many modern people may often be in such a state.
All modern technology makes it easier for us to communicate with people, but this kind of soul communication is lost in the rapid and massive situation, and it’s difficult to find a confidant.
Sometimes, seeing many people's confusion on the internet reveals personal loneliness and bleakness. I think that the invention of the telephone, fax machine, and mobile phone is to make it easier for people to communicate. How come it ends up going the wrong way!
Ultimately, the key to communication is the content.
A journey that goes too fast, we feel that nothing is long-lasting, so I often like to write four characters to many friends, a classic idiom: ‘Days to come’.
I feel that this idiom contains many blessings, because I think
There are still many days ahead, so speed can be slowed down,
We can take the time to feel our own lives, without feeling like they are urgent, anxious, or chaotic with no future.
Sometimes slowing down is beautiful.Sometimes, slowing down is more beautiful than speed.
A slow mood, a mood of slow contact with material, is only possible to become a way to find beauty in life again.
In a week of seven days, we can decide which days to speed up, and which days to slow down. We can decide for ourselves to experience either fast or slow happiness, this is a choice we can make, so we return to the theme, that is choice, the possibility of choice is beauty.You can decide how fast to drive the car to go to a certain place and finish things—but you can also decide which day to give up driving, and choose to walk. Modern mature cities will plan pedestrian paths, in Paris, London, New York, Tokyo, we see so spacious pedestrian paths, encouraging people to give up driving, slow down, and walk.I still hope everyone doesn’t forget the character ‘busy’. It's about the state of mind when the heart dies, which is the state of being busy.
But busy is a feeling, we can practice in any state of accelerating speed, without feeling busy.
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