Chapter 28 Essay

"Death and life are false births, and Qi Pengshang is false."The realm of Mengdie people is vague and vague, and Wang Xizhi can't even describe it in his heart, let alone the Wei and Jin Dynasties are far away, and we in the 20th century.Whether we live or die is not up to us to decide.From the perspective of history, those who have died are just "one step earlier", but this step is from birth to death, so we are most likely to feel compassion for those who have taken such a step earlier.Just a few days ago, when I went to hang such a friend who died young, I didn't intend to cry, but watching the hearse take away his thin coffin, I suddenly felt the world was lonely, the sun and the moon were boring, and my eyes were already moist.During the feast, there is a guest who suddenly wants to leave early, everyone may blame him for being rude, but for a dead person, we not only do not blame him, but feel sorry for him, because he will not come back after leaving. , and will never hear from him again.

However, premature death is not without benefits.Old age and death are the two great fears of life, but the dying are free from at least one of them.Although wisdom comes with old age, the pain of physical decline and the awareness of imminent death may not be compensated by wisdom.Although the young person suffered a little loss in "Yangshou", at least he was spared the disaster of old age.Not only that, but in the memory or imagination of future generations, he will always be young.People who live as old as 80 years old, of course, were once young, but in the memory of future generations, they always appear as old.At least in my impression, Frost was always an old man.But when I think of Shelley, I always seem to see a handsome young man, because he has never aged. Even if I try to imagine a long-lasting Shelley, I can't imagine it.In fact, in terms of "Mingshou", Shelley is at least eighty years older than Frost, that is to say, he is more than enough to be the great-grandfather of the latter.But in our hearts, Shelley is a young man, and Frost is an old man.

That is because Death, strange and mysterious sculptor, is but an assistant of eternity.At one touch of his magic, the young will always be young and the old will always be old.Although mortals must die in the end, Wang Bo has been young after his death, and has been young for more than a thousand years, and in the future, no matter how long the history extends, he will never grow old again.Bai Juyi is different, because he has been old for more than a thousand years, and will be old forever, in the hearts of future generations.As far as Wang Bo is concerned, it is not a misfortune to exchange decades of his life for a youthful image of thousands, thousands, or billions of years after him.Therefore, death not only determines death, but also determines the image of life; whether premature death is luck, misfortune, or the luck of misfortune, is it not for ordinary people to decide?