Chapter 2 Contentment

Whenever I feel clear and depressed, or feel tired after a while of work, or occasionally feel bored with routine work, I force myself to take a walk on the street. Perhaps it was a very hot day with the umbrellas high, and it was noon.At this time on the street, I will see some sweaty people, pulling carts or carrying burdens, running for their lives. I also saw one or two women dressed in shabby clothes, with children on their backs, holding one hand and a basket in the other hand, coming from an unknown place and going to an unknown place . Maybe it was a miserable night with few pedestrians, but there were still one or two lonely noodle vendors waiting for their customers on the dark street corner.He was tired all day, and he also looked forward to one night, but he might not get what he hoped for.

The girl from the fruit shop on the corner is dragging her sore feet, using her rough hands to clean the peels and count the goods.She had a tired and patient look on her face, and she had to admit; four or five hours of sleep followed and another day of the same exhaustion followed. These people, they work hard, nothing more than to live.What they lack is much more than I am, and the weight of life they carry is much heavier than I am.After seeing them, I began to feel lucky for my own uniqueness.So the tiredness, boredom, or depression just now will be relieved.As for passing away; at the same time a new conviction may arise, born of a feeling of good luck—that I should live up to this unique grace.It is not an exaggeration at all, because I feel ashamed of not being satisfied with my own life because I have made a comparison with other people's greater toil.

We will always see people who are struggling, living meaninglessly, and burdened like camels.Just "living" has exhausted them.But they can still put their hopes on tomorrow or someday in the future.They simply hope that one day they will not be so tired, and their wish is fulfilled.And I therefore believe that, if I were in their situation, I would be exactly like them.When I was penniless and had to walk on foot in the hot sun, my best hope was the money for a bus ticket.When I only sleep four hours a day and work twenty hours a year, my best hope must be a day of uninterrupted sleep with my head covered.

However, I also understand from this that whenever a person's minimum wish is satisfied, he must have a second wish; And there will be more and bigger wishes in the future.No one thinks that there is no lack of anything in his own life, though he would yearn for it or miss it if he had withdrawn to a bad life; In his life, he always felt poor and unsatisfactory. Of course, on the bright side, because we are often dissatisfied with our current situation, we will use more intelligence and physical strength to seek greater progress, and we will have more creations and inventions.But, on the worst side, if a person is only negatively dissatisfied with life, negatively bored and complaining, it can only be said to be a kind of ingratitude to one's own luck.

Because no matter whether we think we are suffering enough or not, there are always those who live harder, meaningless and even hopeless than us, but they are living there earnestly and with hope.They think in their hearts that if one day they can achieve the life we ​​are living now, they must use the greatest piety to thank whatever god they believe in.They will definitely feel satisfied and will no longer have any extravagant expectations. Everyone is bored, bored and dissatisfied at times.When this happens, it is when we imagine ourselves in a more hopeless, harder and more difficult situation.

Happiness needs to be compared, it has no end, no standard, it just depends on how you understand it and how you interpret it.