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Chapter 160 Stay away from troubles and become the master of life 3
Volume 8 Chapter 3 Stay away from troubles and become the master of life [-]
A relaxed and cheerful personality is a life advantage
A light-hearted disposition, if tempered, is a natural virtue, not a defect, and can be enhanced with a little tact.Great men know how to use their poise and humor to win people over.But they will also maintain a certain dignity and never do things that violate etiquette.Others see humor as a means of getting out of trouble.It's true that some things can be laughed off, even those that others consider serious.This is a kind of easy-going performance, which will have a wonderful attractive effect on others.

——"The Book of Wisdom"

From the perspective of ordinary people, all kinds of joys and sorrows in the world often cause great emotional fluctuations. People worry about gains and losses because they are afraid or try to avoid these situations, which affects their lives.Although Romeo and Juliet in Shakespeare's works can also accept the test of separation, deep down in their hearts they are actually afraid of the loneliness and coldness of separation.However, if such thoughts are accumulated for too long, it will inevitably cause endless troubles and pains. At least in the view of the Stoic philosophers, this is hurting the soul and divorced from nature.

Life and death, honor and disgrace, pain and pleasure, all these things happen to good and evil alike, and they do not make us better or worse, and do not really affect our souls, but our own opinions about joys and sorrows.

In fact, everything disappears very quickly.In the universe it is the disappearance of the objects themselves, and in time it is the disappearance of the memory of them.Such is the nature of all sensible things.Especially those things that are accompanied by pleasant temptations or terrible pains, they will disappear more quickly.

For fleeting things, lingering obsessively in the heart, this kind of mentality is too persistent, which is not conducive to the growth of the soul.So I always pay attention to the people around me and see how they are doing.So I took a closer look at Apelonius, a true warrior.From him, I learned about freedom of will, and that I can remain calm in the severe pain of losing a child and chronic illness.And Maximus, a man who has been tortured by life, but from him I received the message that it is possible to be happy in any environment.

They are all true warriors, because even in the face of illness or pain, they can maintain their calmness as always and treat them with a normal heart.I also know that there are many warriors like them in life—they may just be the most ordinary people in life, but what they do is definitely the most extraordinary thing.

Thea worked as a senior executive at Velen Company and was well paid.For a long time, she fretted over exactly where to go on vacation.But the situation quickly turned bad. In response to fierce competition, the company began to lay off employees, and Thea was one of the laid off.That year, she was 43 years old.

"I was doing well in school!" she told her friend Murphy, "but nothing stood out. Then, I got into marketing. At 30, I joined that big company as a senior executive." .

"I thought everything was going to be fine, but at 43, I lost my job. It felt like someone punched me in the nose," she continued. "It just sucks."

Thea seemed to have returned to those gloomy days, and her tone was much heavier.However, she soon found a job on her own merits, and two years later, she already had her own consulting firm.

"It's a bad thing to be laid off, but it's definitely not hell. Maybe, for yourself, it may be a chance to change your destiny, like me now. What matters is how you look at it. I remember the famous saying: the world There is no failure in the world, only temporary failure." Thea said to Murphy sincerely.

Thea, like those two warriors, can be happy as usual no matter what the environment is, even if she is suffering from pain.These people can become role models to inspire our spirit, and can add infinite power to our lives, allowing us to go through those pains and grasp the light of happiness.

Human nature is not to despair in pain, but to know how to find hope in despair. We should all follow this nature and be a happy person.

(End of this chapter)