Chapter 4 love and desire

The most real and reliable thing in life should be his present feeling.But the feeling of the heart is the most escaped, the most difficult to grasp.Purely based on people's inner feelings, life is like a torrent, which beats and disappears moment by moment, and does not stop for a moment.The moment is present, fleeting, uncontrollable, unstoppable.Anyone who tries to keep his mind firmly in his present moment will feel this pain.Your heart is no longer running towards the future, but is nostalgic for the past.If we call the former hope and the latter memory.The flow of life seems to be equally divided by hope and memory. If you destroy all your memories, it is tantamount to canceling your entire life, but there is absolutely no life without hope for the future.However, between the two, there is always a bit of a light weight.In some cases, memory is stronger than hope, and in other cases, hope dominates memory, and it is absolutely difficult to mediate evenly and impartially between the two.However, it is precisely because of this emphasis on the light and the heavy that creates the great difference in life.

Let's put it this way, there are two types of life that are forward-biased (hope for the future) and backward-biased (remember the past).Retrograde traits, most notably a love of history.History is all a record of the past.Forward-type people are impatient with this, they are eager to move forward, to break into the unknowable future, they don't want reality, they want ideals.People who value history only build ideals from reality, while those who are eager for the future must build ideals to transform reality.Some novel scripts in literature are mostly produced from this requirement.They seem to be describing life, but in fact they are mostly describing the ideal future life in his heart.But the future of life is unknown. If you want to break into this direction repeatedly, you will feel as if there is a force, or fate, manipulating you and playing tricks on you outside. How powerful it is, and how cruel it is sad.If you think that the past is all over and does not belong to you, you should know how vague, intricate, and changeable the future is.Whatever is of the future is not yours to decide, nor does it belong to you.The gradual unfolding of your future will prove that your ideals are gradually unreal, or gradually retreat and deteriorate.If you stick to your personal hope and insist on moving forward, it will probably cause tragedy.The highest state in all novels and scripts must also be tragic.

How unsafe it is to plant sang along the Yangtze River, so a forward-looking life can easily shift from novels and scripts to religion.The life of religion and novels is also supported by future hope, but religion simply moves the future hope into another world. God and heaven are not things of this world at all. Take this as your future hope. This is tantamount to saying that you don't want this world any more.Therefore, religion is also a tragedy, but the last scene is infinitely postponed. The life of religion is still the life of drama and novel. warm expression. Not so with historical life.He remembers the past more than he thinks about the future.The past is in the past, but in your heart, don't you keep a memory of him?You want to keep these traces, who can deprive you of them?That is your real harvest of life, which can be hidden in your heart forever and will never fade away.Life keeps moving forward, and it may not necessarily catch up with your hope, and it may be farther away from the hope. The hope is gradually disillusioned, but the memory is gradually added and enriched.There is no gain in life, only memory, which everyone can get for nothing.That is the only true gift of life to life, you should cherish it!

China's national character should generally be backward, so history is more developed than literature, and novels and scripts are the two least developed items in literature.According to the Chinese concept, those who run toward the future are lust, those who yearn for the past are affection, those who are willing to sacrifice the past to satisfy the future are desire, and those who are willing to sacrifice the future to accommodate the past are affection.The Chinese concept emphasizes affection rather than desire.Between a man and a woman, desire often surpasses love, and between husband and wife, love surpasses desire. In Chinese literature, men and women seldom fall in love with the future, but more with affection for the past. The Chinese concept calls this the thickness of human nature, so it is said to be gentle and honest. Poetry also.It is also said that if you are cautious in the end and pursue the distance, the morality of the people will be thick.He also said that a life of death is friendship, as long as you don't forget the past.Treat the dead as if they were alive.In fact, this kind of emotion can also be extremely warm and romantic, not just literary, but ethical and moral.

The love of Westerners focuses on future happiness, while the love of Chinese people focuses on past friendship.Westerners entrust the dead to God, while Chinese keep the dead in their hearts forever.Chinese people often look down on the struggle for one's future destiny, they advocate peace of mind, so every time they can't open up the situation to create new ones, they only protect the old ones and are extremely conservative. As long as they paint their memory, they always want to Do your best to keep it from blurring or discoloring it.This is also another kind of strong and powerful life. The power is all used in the depths of his heart. He is not hopeless about the future. What he hopes for is more about what he recalls. He holds on to the past as the benchmark for his future life .He has the most sincere affection for the past, as long as you invade his memory, he will regard you as a part of his life and will never relax.Loyal!Filial piety!That's all.At first glance, it seems to stick to one point, but in fact, you can go anywhere and be complacent.Asking him to move forward seems to be exhausting and demanding, but if he takes a step forward, he will gain something by taking a step forward, and he will never fail.He twists the future onto the past, twists himself onto someone else.Mix the dead and the living together.But he doesn't seem to have much hope for his own personal future happiness.

Backward-type cultural performances also have religion, but they are also different from forward-type ones.The forward type pays attention to hope and prayer, while the backward type pays attention to remembrance and repayment.Chinese religion, like Chinese literature, can still be said to be more emotional than lust in the Chinese mind.Repaying kindness is more important than asking for blessings.The forward type is dissatisfied with the status quo and pursues forward, so he feels that God is still before him, but when he looks back on his life, he can't help but feel that he is small and disgusting.Therefore, it developed into a theory of sexual evil.Retrograde people are satisfied with the past reality, as if God has given me everything.I should only be grateful and repay, and only ask for the best in me. It seems that I should no longer ask God for anything else.If this is the case, the self-status in life will be improved, so the theory of good nature will be developed.We can also say that the God of the former is transcendent, while the God of the latter becomes immanent.Human beings go forward and backward in their minds, and each has their own priorities; and when they walk their own paths, complain or envy, is this the dignity of human nature?Who shouldn't honor your own humanity?