Chapter 6 Chapter 5 is not precious

One day a friend asked me: "There are two most precious liquids in the world, one is wine, and what is the other?" I replied: "It's water." My friend praised: "Yes, I asked several people, and only you got the right answer." In fact, I was very wrong. Water is necessary and indispensable. Without water, people will die, but they cannot use "precious" to describe water, just as someone asked: "There are two most precious substances in the world, one is diamonds, What is another kind of fact?" It is absolutely impossible for me to answer: "It is rice".

Nor can I tell him: "The most precious thing is not diamonds, but uranium." Because we are human beings, ordinary people, ordinary concepts, and ordinary emotions, in our minds, "precious" and "necessary" are completely different, and even "values" are different. So I said that it was not my fault that I answered this question wrong, but because my friend asked the wrong question. Because there is only one precious liquid in this world, and that liquid is wine. Because only wine can make people forget things they shouldn't think about, and people's greatest sorrow is to think things they shouldn't think about.

Except for "death", only wine can make people forget these things. ——Death, how precious, only once, never twice.