Chapter 28 Many people worry about small things

A traveler had traveled to many distant places on foot, but this time he had to suspend his journey because a grain of sand fell into his shoe, and the sand abraded his foot, causing it to become inflamed.A grain of sand ruined his journey.It can be seen that the vast majority of people can bravely face the big crises and difficult challenges in life, but they are often knocked down by some small things.In fact, so people should not worry about small things, and should not allow themselves to worry about some small things that should be thrown away and forgotten. Robert Stone was a Marine.He is troubled by little things all day long.In the year that World War II ended, in the deep sea off Indochina, he learned not to fret over little things.

At that time, Stone was on a submarine with eighty-nine comrades in arms.Suddenly, the submarine radar detected an enemy fleet approaching them: an enemy destroyer, a minelayer, and an oil tanker.The submarine fired three torpedoes at the destroyer, none of which hit their targets.The enemy destroyers did not realize they were under attack and continued on their way.Suddenly, the minelayer rushed towards the submarine. It turned out that an airplane had spotted them and informed it of their position. The submarine quickly dived to a depth of 150 feet to prevent being detected by it. The men on board quickly prepared to deal with the depth charges, shutting down all cooling systems and all generators.

Three minutes later, the battle began.Six of the enemy's depth charges exploded around the sub, and the sub sank even deeper into the sea.Being attacked in water less than a thousand feet deep is a very dangerous thing, and the soldiers began to pray.If it's less than five hundred feet, it's pretty much dead.In this way, the enemy's depth charges continued to explode around the submarine for 15 hours. More than a dozen bombs exploded at a distance of 50 feet from the submarine—if the depth charges were 17 feet away from the submarine feet, and a hole would be blown in the sub.At that time, Stone and all the people were ordered to lie quietly on the bed. Stone was trembling with fright and his face turned pale. He thought he was dead this time.In order not to be discovered by the enemy, they turned off the submarine's cooling system. Soon, the temperature inside the submarine reached more than 40 degrees, but Stone still felt cold even after wearing a sweater.

The explosion lasted for more than ten hours, and Stone felt that it seemed as long as five million years.At this moment, Stone thought about his past life, some bad things he did before, and some boring little things that used to worry him. Stone used to be a senior employee of a bank. He had a leisurely job and was paid relatively well. However, he still complained all day long about his low salary and worried about the lack of opportunities for promotion.Worrying about not having money to buy my own house, not having money to buy a new car, not having money to buy a new dress for my wife.Sometimes, he and his wife would quarrel over trivial matters.One was in a car accident while driving because of worry, and he still has a small scar the size of a coin on his forehead—this is the scar left by that car accident.Later, he worried about the scar because he was afraid it would have a negative impact on his image.

At this time, he felt that all those worrying things before were considered big things at the time, but compared with today's moment when he may be sent to see God by depth charges at any time, those things are really insignificant. How absurd is my worry! Stone suddenly woke up between life and death, and he regretted his previous actions.He swore that if he was lucky enough to escape from death this time, he would never worry about little things again. Fifteen hours at sea under attack by the enemy taught Stone the most important lesson in his life.In many cases, we are usually able to bravely face the catastrophe of life, but we cannot be bothered by trivial matters.

Admiral Byrd has been working in Antarctica. In the bitterly cold Antarctic night, some people around him did not allow him to calmly face the reality-the staff often get frizzy because of trivial things.They silently endure the boring, dangerous, difficult and severe cold of minus 80 degrees.Admiral Byrd said: "Someone asked me how I let my subordinates work honestly in such a cold place. I told him that I found that the severe cold could not bring them any trouble. I knew that the two team members suspected each other. I moved my hands and feet with mechanical gears and stopped talking. There is also a team member who must avoid another team member when eating, because that person needs to chew 28 times before swallowing each mouthful. So, I only need to deal with the severe cold. It is enough that little things have an effect on them. Otherwise, in polar camps, trifles will drive the most disciplined mind mad."

"The law is not made for trifles." This is a famous saying in jurisprudence: If a person wants to maintain peace of mind, he should not worry about trifles.If we want to change the original state, we must learn to adjust our own perspective and look at everything we encounter with an optimistic attitude. A writer friend of mine named Homer Crowe, when he was writing in New York, lived in such an old apartment that he was often annoyed by the noise of the heating pipes. He was very troubled at the desk, which prevented him from writing and falling asleep peacefully.Several times in the middle of the night he tried to move out of the place.He later found out that the noise from the heating wasn't that scary.

One day, he and his friends went camping, they lit a pile of wood, and then the sound of the wood bursting out, he suddenly found that it was very similar to the sound of the heating pipe in the apartment, but the sound does not sound so annoying now , on the contrary, he quite likes this sound now - why does he like one but hate the other?So when he got home and heard the noise of the heating again, he said to himself: "The sound of the campfire burning wood sounds pleasant, and the sound of the heating pipe is similar. It's not a noise, and you can sleep peacefully." As a result, he really fell asleep peacefully.In the first few days, he still thought about the radiator, but after a while, he completely forgot about its existence.

Homer Crowe said: "Because we hate, all the trivial things are more and more exaggerating its importance... This is a weakness that many people cannot overcome." So the British politician Disraeli said: " Life is too short to be humbled?" Andre Mauros wrote in Feng Zhou magazine: "This sentence has helped me several times to get through painful experiences. We often let small things trouble ourselves. In fact, These things should have been left behind long ago... We have only lived in this world for a few decades, but we are willing to spend a few hours that will never return, worrying about some small things that no one will remember a year later—— How not worth it! We should put our lives on meaningful actions, immortal thoughts, true emotions, and enduring careers, because life is too short, so don't waste it on trifles?

Kipling, the English poet, sometimes got so attached to trivial matters that he ended up in a famous lawsuit with his in-laws, and even has a book on it.The story goes like this: Kipling married a girl from Vermont, USA, and then he and the girl settled there.His wife had a younger brother named Beatty, who soon became close friends with Kipling, and they were always inseparable. Later, Kipling bought some land from Beatty, and the agreement was that Beatty could harvest pasture every season.One day, Beatty found that the meadow had been turned into a garden by Kipling. He was furious. Kipling would not give in to his arbitrariness.

A few days later, Kipling was walking on the road on a bicycle, and Beatty drove a caravan pulled by several horses, and suddenly bumped into Kipling.Kipling charged Beatty with murder and vowed to send Beatty to jail.Then, an earth-shattering trial began. Newspaper reporters flocked to the small town where they lived and competed for interviews, which became known throughout the country, forcing the Kiplings to move and abandon their American homeland forever.Such serious consequences are all caused by grass! The Athenian statesman Pericles said 2,400 years ago: "Arise, gentlemen! We have sat here too long discussing trifles!" We have always had that bug indeed. So, don't worry about small things, only in this way you can eliminate worries and make your life more meaningful.