120 philosophical essays you must read in your life

Chapter 27

Chapter 2 Section 5 Eternal Life

[China] Yan Wenjing

The days gone will never come back.When one turns thirty one finds that something is missing, a molar, a cecum, some hair on the forehead, a little taste for joking, or your whole youth.Those things, like the lost years, are yours only once.They have left you and will never return.So what if you are a wise man!Your strength is so small that you can't make any decisions about the affairs of life.Life is not like a shirt. When you find it dirty and torn, you can take it off, wash it, and mend it again.If you have ever worried about something, at most you can only try to forget it, but you can't cancel the trace of its existence.We are all so pitiful in this matter!

However, everything is still optimistic.This is due to the greatness of life itself: life can continuously create new life.It's an ordinary thing, and it's a wonderful magic trick.Just like the grass on the ground, they are so humble and weak. After each severe winter, they still get out of the soil one by one, happily facing the spring wind, as if facing the cruelty of the past. Like knowing nothing.We watched with equal emotion the calves hopping on the hillside, whose golden down seemed fresh from the sun.

I had to think of the meaning of eternal immortality.Thank you for the miracle of life!It is not a temporary thing.It is like a traveler who does not know how to get tired. It may only temporarily stay in a certain individual for a while, and then leave again, but it will always exist.

It is full of hope, endlessly multiplying, spreading, declaring its joy everywhere.What an admirable thing this should be!

My friends, it looks like we should be braver.When we understand the true meaning of life, our hearts should be brighter.Let us cry out with all confidence the truth we have found: Nothing permanent and immortal can be killed by those tyrants!Let us praise life, praise the eternal life, we will praise it with work and love.It is a flower that will never wither, it will always give the world color and fragrance.

【Together with you】

How precious life is, many things that belong to us are often gone at the most inadvertent moment, and the dead are like this!However, any kind of ending heralds a new beginning; any kind of seemingly delicate struggle is not humble but shows its greatness.Time, the passerby of EMI, life is like sending.However, any state has immortal significance; any ordinary little thing is a wonderful magic and miracle.Life is worthy of our praise. In God's vineyard, there are clusters of fruits that represent perfection.Life belongs to everyone and never fades. Its glorious imprint will never fade away... Enthusiasm is a force that, together with confidence, turns adversity, failure and temporary setbacks into actions.

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