120 philosophical essays you must read in your life

Chapter 37

Chapter 2 Chapter 15 Love of Life

[French] Montaigne
I often assign special meanings to certain words.Take "spending the day" as an example. When the weather is bad and unpleasant, "sending the day" is undoubtedly "killing the time" for me, but I don't want to "spend the day" when the weather is sunny. "At this time, I am slowly enjoying and enjoying the good time.

On bad days, you have to go quickly to "get over"; on good days, you have to stop and savor them carefully. The common expressions of "living the day" and "killing the time" recall the habits of those "sages."In the eyes of these people, the use of life seems to be a chore, a cheap thing, nothing more than sending it away, killing it, avoiding it as much as possible, and ignoring its existence.For me, I don't think life is like that, I find it admirable and enjoyable, even in my own old age.Nature has given us life, so our life is superior, and we have only ourselves to blame if we feel overwhelmed or if it is wasted.

"A foolish person's life is boring and restless, but he pins all his hopes on the afterlife."

However, I am always ready to say goodbye to my life without regret.This is not caused by the hardships or troubles of life, but because I clearly know that people are destined to die.Therefore, only those who enjoy life can truly feel no distress about death.

To enjoy life, we must pay attention to the method, and the size of the joy of life is directly proportional to the degree of concern for our life.I care about life twice as much as others, so I enjoy life twice as much as others.Especially at this moment, I see that the time of my life is running out, and I want to increase the weight of my life.I want to seize the time quickly to retain the fleeting days, and I want to use the effective use of time to make up for the hastily passing time.The shorter the remaining life, the more I want to live it to the fullest.

【Together with you】

Life is either heavier than Mount Tai or lighter than a feather.In the end, whether our life is full and full, or empty and lonely, whether we can have no regrets in this life, or whether our life is wasted, the right is in our own hands.If you choose irresponsible wasting and waste, life will reward you with long-term depression and emptiness; if you choose to use struggle to increase the weight of life, life will bring you many unexpected enjoyments.

As it is written in the book "How Steel Was Tempered", "A person's life should be spent like this: when he looks back on the past, he will not regret for wasting money, nor be ashamed of doing nothing. so that, on his deathbed, he could say: 'My whole life and all my energies have been dedicated to the most magnificent cause in the world—the struggle for the liberation of mankind.'" Let life be filled with passion , life will be far away from troubles and pains, and the journey of progress is the journey of happiness.People who don't believe in fate say that fate is created by people themselves, and everyone is the designer of fate.

People who believe in fate say that life has already been arranged, let nature take its course, and don't fight with fate.

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