Chapter 54 Happiness doesn't have to be anything, but it must be shareable

CCTV's "Today's Statement" column once interviewed me and asked me to talk about what happiness is.I talked about it once, and the reporter felt unsatisfied, so let me talk about it again.I talked about it again, but the reporter still felt dissatisfied, so he gave me a few examples to inspire me. For example, when talking about happiness, someone said that happiness is firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea, and happiness is the ordinary life of ordinary people.For another example, when talking about happiness, he said that his wife was afraid that he would get fat, so he would not let him eat fat meat. Yesterday, when his wife was not at home, he ate a meal of braised pork and felt very happy... But these don’t seem to be my own feelings. I told this reporter that mere material things do not necessarily bring happiness.I remember that a magazine interviewed the 100 richest bosses on Wall Street in the United States, and more than 90 of them felt that they were unhappy. At the same time, this magazine interviewed 100 Indians who lived on the streets, and more than 90 of them said they were very happy.I think that happiness has something to do with material things, but not very much; firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar tea, braised pork and happiness are also somewhat related, but not so much. I think the more important thing is spiritual feelings, which can be shared.

The reporter still inspired me repeatedly, insisting that I tell a story about happiness and a moment of happiness. I said that when I was riding a bicycle by the sea and listening to music with an MP3 player, I felt happy.A few days ago, I listened to "You at the Same Table" again. It brought me back to my middle school days, and I also felt happy at this moment.Indeed, no matter how tired or irritable I am, as long as there is music, I can calm down, especially Mozart's music. I like every piece of music. When I listen to Mozart's music, I can feel happy.So I think the relationship between happiness and spirit may be a little bigger.Faith is inseparable from people's happiness. Faith is the real source of happiness.

Still unsatisfied, the reporter asked if I could tell another specific story.I said, a few days ago, I met my middle school classmates. We had dinner together, and there were many people at the dinner table.Seeing this classmate reminds me of the middle school days we spent together.At that time, more than 20 of our students lived in a dormitory. There was no heating or stove for heating in winter. The students spread thick wheat straw on the bed boards to keep warm. In the spring season, the wheat straw was cleaned. clean.At that time, there were many bedbugs on the bed, and every night we were bitten all over our bodies. Sometimes we used bamboo sticks or pens to poke every crack in the bed, and blood would flow out of the cracks.One day, I couldn't stand the torture of bedbugs, so I took 20 cents and an empty bottle to the subsistence store of the commune to buy some dichlorvos, but this store could only sell whole bottles of dichlorvos, not retail.When I was worrying, an uncle from the People's Liberation Army happened to come to buy a bottle of dichlorvos.I asked him if he could sell me some, and the PLA said yes, but be careful.So he gave me some dichlorvos, but insisted on not taking my money, and gave it to me for nothing.After returning to the dormitory, I sprinkled some on the bed first. When I came back from class, a large area of ​​bedbugs on the bed became soft and could not move.From that day on, I slept soundly, and the students in the dormitory also slept soundly.This time the classmate came to Beijing, and the people who ate together kept talking about who is the "leader" and who is the "general".Those with "chief" are all officials, and the officials seem to be very big; those with "general" are all making money, and when it comes to money, they all have a lot of money.But all I could think about was the twenty cents and the little bottle of dichlorvos.

Memories may also be a kind of happiness.