Chapter 14 Eleven, the sun illuminates your way

Is the violent tiger Feng He still planning to move? Andre: If someone is holding a slingshot in his hand, stand high up on you.If you want to fight back, should you stand at the low place, or do you stand at the high place first? You will say, no, MM, according to your logic, the people should not resist tyranny, because the characteristic of totalitarian rule is that the government occupies the commanding heights, and the people live at the bottom, living under the "slingshot". They will never be able to grab the high ground. place.Moreover, those who cooperate with totalitarianism can plausibly say that I am "fighting in a roundabout way", trying to find a way to stand on a high ground, and then speak for the people.In a democratic system, some people choose to follow the corrupt power, and plausibly say that entering the system and standing at a high place can influence those in power and benefit the society.But before benefiting the society, the individual has already enjoyed the benefits of power first.

I will not be able to respond to your rebuttal.Andre, in this world, speculators who see the wind and turn the steering wheel are definitely the majority.So the "courage" and "intelligence" you mentioned are always rare qualities.What's more, sometimes it is difficult to distinguish between the courage of "Tiger Feng He" and the courage of "make a decision before acting".Speculative and intelligent, it seems plausible too.The nuances of true and false courage and intelligence, in "Zuo Zhuan" (recording Chinese history from 722 BC to 468 BC) and "Warring States Policy" (recording Chinese history from 460 BC to 220 BC) A lot, hopefully you will read it one day.At the same time, I found that the speculation of Socrates recorded by Plato is very similar to the style of "Zuo Zhuan".When Socrates' friend Credo went to prison to try to persuade him to escape, Socrates had a moral debate with him:

SOCRATES: ... Should it be firmly believed that injustice is injustice regardless of what the majority thinks and whatever the consequences may be? K: Yes. SOCRATES: So we cannot do unrighteous things? K: No. Su: Can't we treat others in the same way as others, and use violence to control violence? K: No. Su: ...That is to say, no matter how others hurt us, we can't retaliate to hurt others.But Credo, you have to think carefully, because this kind of thinking has never been the thinking of most people.People who believe in this idea or not are deeply divided and completely unable to communicate with each other.

I am out of tune with the "majority", should I persist or compromise?When an individual is attacked by power, do they resist or accept?Why accept and why resist?How to accept and how to resist?Socrates relies on a rational logic. In "Zuo Zhuan", there are often conflicts between rationality and power. So, Andrei, you are not the only teenager who has to think about how to "cope" with the extremely complicated interpersonal relationship; interpersonal relationship is actually a power relationship, and everyone from Lao Tzu, Confucius to Socrates have thought about this problem .The difficulty your English teacher caused you is just a small training. For example, before you decide to sleep in class and not do your homework, have you thought about what kind of "opponent" he is?Have you ever thought about what language to use to communicate with him?Or, what form of "rebellion" will bring you what kind of gains or disasters?Are you "make a plan and then act" or "violent tiger Feng He"?What are you trying to achieve?What is your logic?

Two weeks ago, I bought two average-sized narcissus bulbs. One was placed by the glass window and the other was placed on the dining table, both of which were served with clean water.The one by the window is still like a pot of green onions, and the one on the table, because the room is slightly warmer, has already bloomed fragrant flowers. every pain is real I feel "flattered" that you are willing to talk about your relationship with me.Yes, I waited 19 years for you to tell me: MM, I met a cute girl.The last time you talked about "love" with me was when you were 13 years old:

1998/9/20, Midnight Notes Andre had just picked him up from his friend's birthday dance.In the dark car, I felt that he seemed to be lost in thought, hesitant to speak.I chatted with him without saying a word, and slowly, I learned that the girls in class tonight were also there. "So—the music is very loud?" "It's not loud," he said, "it's the kind of quiet music." "Oh..." I thought, "So it's a slow dance?" "right." Another night drive.On this section of the road, there are wheat fields on both sides, and the wild poppies are full of wild poppies beside the wheat fields, which are in full bloom under the apple trees.I drove very slowly, and the sour apple fragrance wafted through the autumn night air.

The person who didn't speak for a long time suddenly said: "Mali fell in love with a girl in our class, and he told her tonight." "How do you say it?" "When the lights dimmed, he said it when he was dancing with her." He turned to me and said seriously: "Mom, don't you know? When you love, you can tell it without saying it. " "Oh..." I was startled by his words, but I pretended to be calm.When I got home, I turned off the lights.In the dark, we all sat, not moving.And I said, "Ann, are you in love with someone too?" He shook his head.

"If it happened, would you—would you tell me?" He said: "Yes..." His voice was very soft, "Probably yes." Tonight, I think, is just such an ordinary autumn night, what happened in the heart of a 13-year-old boy, he may not quite understand.An erratic affection?A secret, sudden, elusive sweet feeling? He usually tried his best to delay going to bed, said good night to me early, and closed the door. Do you remember that night, Andre? I don't think your troubles are "Hollywood star" "moaning without illness" at all.In fact, I have been in a mood of concern all day when I received your letter.You say it's the little things that add to the annoyance of life, you compare falling out of love with getting your clothes wet from spilled milk, Andrei, I'm amazed at your ability to laugh at yourself, but don't pretend to be cool.For anyone, at any stage of life, it is very "hurt" to suffer a setback in love, let alone a 19-year-old.If you will allow me to be honest, I think you must be in an extremely distressed, or "painful" mood at the moment.And the graduation exam is just around the corner.I worry because I know I can't give you any comfort at a time like this.

I wonder if the German teenagers of your generation have read "The Sorrows of Young Werther"?Like you, Goethe grew up in Frankfurt, and I have also taken you to his former residence. The 23-year-old Goethe fell in love with a betrothed girl, which brought him great pain.The pain was transformed into literary art, and his pain was sublimated, but many other young people, holding his book tightly, put on "Werther-style" clothes, and committed suicide one after another.Andrea, the pain in our own heart does not become trivial because there are greater or more "worthy" pains in this world; it may be small to others, but to ourselves, every pain is absolute, real, It's big and it hurts.

pink bow Goethe described the young Werther in this way: to the sky he pursues the most beautiful stars / to the earth he yearns for all desires (Von Himmel fordert er die schoensten Sterne / Und von der Erde jede hoechste Lust); at the age of 19, I think, it is the stars and stars in the sky. When desire intertwined on earth, when sweetness and pain overlapped in confusion.Your bewilderment, honey, we've all been there. So, what am I going to tell you? Goethe saw Charlotte for the first time in the small town of Vizsla, a pure and quiet girl in a fluttering white dress and a crimson bow on her chest, which made him fall in love.In order to please Charlotte, he drove the carriage ten kilometers to deliver an orange to Charlotte's sick girlfriend.Love but cannot love, or love but cannot receive love, the pain of the young Goethe, do you now have a better understanding of it?But what I want to say is that, according to legend, 40 years later, Goethe, who is famous all over the world, met Charlotte in Weimar, and she had become a stout and haggard old woman.Before that, Goethe was constantly in love, constantly falling in love, and constantly creating. The pain of the first love at the age of 23 is not so absolute if you look at it through the lens of life.

Can you also imagine: before you meet your future lifelong partner, you may fall in love 10 times and get hurt 20 times?So every injury is a compulsory course in life?When you get injured once, you will tick off the class schedule in life and face the next class.What Goethe did, besides ticking the boxes, was to sit down and write a report on his experience——isn’t all the works his homework in life?From "Werther's Troubles" in his youth to "Faust" in his old age, Andre, have you ever thought that it is all his painful contemplation and contemplation? Should you confess or hide your feelings with this girl you like?I probably don't have to tell you, and you probably don't expect me to.What I would like to share with you is my own "experience report", that is, life is like a big river, which may be beautiful, but more likely to be stormy.The partner you need is preferably the one who can stand side by side with you on the bow, sip the scenery on both sides of the strait, and at the same time hold your hand tightly in the stormy sea.In other words, it's best if she isn't some rough sea that you have to deal with. However, I can't help but realize that anything I say must be nonsense.Because, pure and quiet, with a pink bow tied on a white dress and white skirt—who can resist the attack of "beauty"?An obsession with beauty can beat any sage's self-righteous report.I can only let you, watch you, fall, I can only hope that you will get up where you fell, hope that the sun will shine, illuminate your sad heart hidden, and illuminate the invisible end of your road. MM