Don’t be nostalgic about the past, because these things cannot be changed. Even if you are immersed in them all day long, the past things will not change; the present things are the most important things in our lives. Precious, live in the present. When we do things, don’t think before and after, and keep our minds calm and uncluttered. The future is unpredictable and no one can predict it. Don’t deliberately cater to it.
This sentence tells us different attitudes towards the past, present and future.
“Don’t love the past, don’t mess with the present, and don’t welcome the future” comes from Zeng Guofan, a politician, strategist, Neo-Confucianist, litterateur, and calligrapher in the late Qing Dynasty.
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As the saying goes: What you plan for is up to you and God will make it happen. If you work hard for what you want, no matter what the future holds, you will have no regrets. Zeng Guofan achieved such high achievements without an open attitude towards life. As we all know, Zeng Guofan was not very smart. At the beginning of his official career, he passed the exam many times before passing the exam. When he was young, he was impatient, but as time went by, those shortcomings Zeng Guofan disappeared, replaced by stability and humility.
Zeng Guofan had an official position of Cong Yipin. As one of the highest-ranking border ministers in the Qing Dynasty, he was also the first of the four famous ministers in the late Qing Dynasty. Zeng Guofan knew that hard things are easy to break, and his attitude of being able to take things up but not letting them go made Zeng Guofan like a fish in water in the officialdom. He eventually became a pillar of the Qing Dynasty and his name will remain in history.