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Chapter 103 why is happiness infinite

mental gymnastics 刘心武 1690Words 2018-03-18
A real estate developer identified the brand of commercial housing developed as "Happy Infinity", presumably in order to get rid of the habit of naming "garden" and "square" at every turn, which is quite interesting and ingenious. Whether a person's life is happy or not, what is the standard for measuring it?reputation?status?wealth?healthy?Everyone has different choices. Of course, there are also those who want to have both "fish" and "bear's paw".However, most people in the world now regard "well-being" as a universal standard - living in a peaceful environment, having a stable job (it would be better if there is a career they like), good health, and harmonious interpersonal relationships. Luckily, this is generally speaking.From the perspective of human psychology, human life actually exists in continuous emotions. Even in sleep, emotions in the subconscious are still bubbling like crabs.Therefore, someone suggested that happiness is happiness, and the name of the commercial house "Happiness Infinity" is deduced from this, which is understandable.

Happiness is priceless.Happiness is the gold in people's psychology and emotion. If you smile, you will be young for ten years ("young" means "less"), and you will be happy if you smile often.Pursuing happiness and enjoying happiness are natural human rights.However, is it necessary to push the pursuit of happiness to infinity?Numerous predecessors and other people’s car lessons show us that extreme joy begets sorrow, and indulgence leads to disaster. If a person has no other emotions except happiness, then he is either a fool or a lunatic. In that case, laughing Laughing, it will lead to at least ten years less ("less" less "healthy life").

We often see the saying "break the five-flavored bottle of mind" in articles.A living body is really like a "five-flavored bottle" in terms of the psychological emotions it contains.Which five flavors?Sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, salty, this is a metaphor for taste, directly speaking of emotions, it is happiness, anger, sadness, joy, and resentment.In fact, the "five" in "five flavors" means that there are many words. There are more than five kinds of human psychological emotions.In our commonly used vocabulary, there are many words that combine life experiences and psychological emotions: joys and sorrows, love and hatred, sorrow and joy, sorrow and anger, joy and happiness, life and death singing and crying... A healthy life, his psychological Moods should be "full of flavors" without "breaking the bottle".Wouldn’t it be better to keep only one flavor—happiness, or only one type—joy, joy, joy, and ease?I thought that was not good, because people should have a sense of justice when they live in the world, and the sense of justice is often associated with emotions such as anger, contempt, and grief against corruption, evil and depravity.Our national anthem songs are very passionate, but they are not composed of happy emotions. They mainly express the national sense of urgency.If a person only knows his own happiness and ignores the misfortune of others, if he is indifferent to the group he belongs to, especially if he lacks a sense of worry about world peace and environmental protection, he is at least "short of heart" and not a healthy and beautiful person. Good "bottle".The above is from the big picture.From a young age, I have no regrets and guilt towards myself, can't taste the bitterness of nostalgia, can't express a touch of sadness, don't know the ups and downs of parting or meeting, and lack the thrill of touching my heart at night... Then, life can hardly be said to be complete , without a full range of life experience, life taste incomplete, it is difficult to say how much happiness has been obtained.

The "five flavors" emotions in the "bottle" of a person should not be equal, and it should not and cannot be frozen there without fluctuating or churning, without interpenetrating or even transforming.The psychological and emotional health of a person is actually a state in which the yin and yang of the "five flavors of life" are properly adjusted.The sign of this state is often happiness, especially "satisfaction", but not always, it may also be "rarely confused", or "Why do my eyes often have tears? Because I love this land It may be deep", or it may be a sigh of "time is used to throwing people away, cherries are red, plantains are green", or a melancholy chant of "you at the same table"... In short, happiness is the necessity of happiness, But why is happiness infinite, because the taste of happiness cannot be just that kind of happiness.

A rich man, he just came back from gambling in Las Vegas, USA, and went to a high-end club to invite friends to eat abalone bird's nest first, and then watched Paris's "Moulin Rouge"-style dance in a nightclub, and then took medicinal baths, After bathing in the sauna, having a full-body Thai massage, and having a Hong Kong-style supper, he drove a famous car back to his suburban mansion in the early hours of the morning.At dawn, people found him drowned in the swimming pool at the back of the house. After investigation by the police, it was not a homicide, but did he commit suicide?Difficult to judge.And when he was not cremated, a group of people related to him were already fighting to divide his property.He was like a balloon, which suddenly collapsed after inflating the happy gas inside to a certain extent.Is this a happy death or a painful death?

In contrast, the happiness of well-off families and contented people is relatively solid and easy to last.That happiness basically belongs to the "trivial little joys of life", such as the whole family sharing a freshly ripe sandy watermelon.Mr. Lu Xun is a great man who has the most sense of national urgency, but he opposes the far-fetched association of "the great powers carve up China" when cutting watermelons.Being able to control one's psychological emotions properly, under what circumstances should be deep and heavy, under what circumstances should be relaxed and humorous, blending into temperament, naturally, that state is the real happiness!

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