Therefore, modern writer Zhu Ziqing's famous essay "Hurry" is even more fascinating.
Swallows have gone, and there is a time to come again; Willow withered, there is a time to green again; The peach blossom withered, but it blossomed again. But, smart, tell me, why are our days gone forever? (Excerpted from Zhu Ziqing's "Hurry")
? If you think about time carefully, you will be afraid, as written in this essay: "My days are dripping in the stream of time, without sound or shadow. I can't help but burst into tears. "
Because for individuals, time is passing by and will never come back.
In the vast universe, human life is extremely limited. The limited life of an individual becomes insignificant in infinite time and space. Life seems to be just a moment when a meteor crosses the night sky, which may not be seen by many people.
Once you realize how small an individual is, you will feel a great sense of emptiness. No wonder Zhu Ziqing lamented that he only had to linger and be in a hurry.
Shen Congwen, who is also a famous modern writer, also has his own thoughts on this. He simply wrote an essay called "Time", and there was a sigh similar to "Hurry":
We often talk about "the meaning of life" or "the value of life". In fact, the real meaning and value of a person's life is only a few decades. Without him, he would be meaningless and worthless in the world before his death; Living to death, he has no life, and naturally he has no meaning and value. (Excerpted from Shen Congwen's Time)
In other words, if a person loses his life, the world has nothing to do with you.
Thinking too much is very frustrating. Therefore, Shen Congwen explored the meaning of life in this era, praised those who promoted the upward development of human society and affirmed their life value.
However, in essence, life is a process from birth to death. At this point, everyone is completely equal-come naked and leave empty-handed.
As a higher animal, human beings are never willing to be passively at the mercy of fate. In addition to survival, they will try their best to give life various meanings, trying to make the process of life brilliant and cover up the fear brought by the ruthlessness of years.
Thus, on the basis of material life, human beings also have a spiritual world. The human body can be destroyed by time, but a certain spirit can be passed on by future generations and will never be erased.
This makes a person's life full of meaning, from which he can gain an existing sense of value. Throughout the ages, people are always keen to talk about the story of a famous person, focusing on the spiritual strength brought by the content of this person's life to future generations, rather than the length of his life.
But even with various meanings attached, it is difficult to eliminate people's sadness about time. Even Tao Yuanming, who devoted himself to the countryside and pretended to be free and easy, said: "It is difficult to get up in the morning if you don't come back in the prime of life. It is necessary to encourage in time, and time waits for no one. "
There is only one way for people to resist the frustration caused by fleeting time, and that is "timely encouragement", which is the same as what people like to say now: cherish the present and seize the present.
People can only grasp what they can grasp and make their own efforts within the scope they can grasp. Therefore, at the end of the year, people like to sum up the past and look forward to the future, aiming to motivate themselves to do things more actively and fill the space of personal life with more meaning.
Then, at the end of your life, you don't have to regret that you failed an irreversible journey once in a lifetime.
Anyway, our days are gone forever. As long as people are alive, they are constantly savoring the philosophy of life contained in the famous sentence "Flowers are similar year after year, but people are different year after year" by Liu Xiyi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty.
Life is actually like flowers and plants, which take root and sprout, grow up gradually, then bloom slowly, and finally wither and wither. However, how and how long this bloom lasts varies from person to person.
In the face of the ruthlessness of time, the sentimental heart suddenly gives birth to a feeling that life is like a flower, which blooms incisively and vividly.
Then, our 20 18, and all the days after, will bloom like flowers!
(Written on 20 17. 12.29)