money and life

Chapter 2 Success comes from labor (1)
Those who are lazy and don't like to work can never get real happiness.Labor can create our beautiful life, while laziness not only makes people decadent and depraved, but also makes people spiritually empty.Lazy people can only approach a happy life by becoming hardworking.When you go to work, you must work hard, work hard, and have a reasonable schedule. If you do these two things, you are a glorious citizen.

--"history"

Working non-stop can keep your life young forever, and fearing the gods can make you die without pain.

—Tuscan proverb

If you don't work hard, you are disrespectful to God, and being lazy is disrespectful to God.

—J? B?selkirk

Choose your own job well, everyone work hard!In this way, even when I am about to leave, I can say with peace of mind: I have worked hard for my life, and now I can leave this world safely.

—Sydney?smith

Labor is a unique instinct of human beings

Man's best enlightenment teacher is labor.

In the process of labor, people can acquire knowledge, and labor creates people.People learn to observe discipline and self-control in labor, and in such a process, a basic social moral norm is formed.Only through continuous labor and hard work can people master the most basic skills needed in daily life, or master a survival skill.It is difficult for a person who does not work to have perseverance.

Human beings are created by labor, and human beings are continuously evolved through labor, and labor is also a unique instinct of human beings.Through continuous creation in the process of labor, people have promoted the continuous development of human society.To survive, one has to work. This is a truth. In other words, only those who work can enjoy life and understand real life.Labor makes people feel happy, and labor creates a better life.

Some people think that labor is too hard, and that it is too low to work by themselves, but they don't know that labor is glorious, and there would be no society without labor.Labor embodies the greatness and wisdom of human beings, and only with labor can there be everything in human life.Human civilization comes from labor. If human beings do not work, it means that the world will soon be destroyed.

Labor is the source of happiness, and laziness and dislike of labor are the root of all bad things.Sometimes people become lazy, and lazy people are like rusted iron, slowly being corroded away.Laziness cannot be underestimated, it can even destroy a nation.

Alexander led his army to defeat the Persian country, and he saw how the people of this nation lived in Persia.He found that the Persians did not participate in labor, their lives were very corrupt, and all people were thinking about how to enjoy themselves.Alexander couldn't help saying with emotion: "Laziness and greed for enjoyment are the greatest harm. Is there anything more harmful than these two?" Hard work is the most noble behavior of human beings, and laziness can even make a nation perish. .

The ancient Roman emperor Severus fought all his life and led his troops to conquer Mesopotamia and Britain.As he was dying, he heard reports of indiscipline among the Army troops stationed in the Grampian area.He was very disturbed and decided to put pressure on the regiment by dealing with this trivial matter, warning them to always remember the importance of military discipline.King Severus's last order to the soldiers was—never give up labor, only hard work can make the Roman army vigorous.

When human society first emerged, the most common agricultural production activities also had some special social significance.Engaging in different agricultural production activities represents different identities of people, as was the case in ancient Italy.The famous ancient Roman historian Pliny has such a description in his works: All kinds of farm work represent different social status, so what kind of farm work a person does is not decided randomly.For the triumphant general and the soldiers who accompanied the general, if they were arranged to farm the land, they would feel that it was a great reward.

The generals who participated in the field work under the guidance of the farmers were also very happy when they saw the plows plowing the fields one by one.But later slaves were used and abused wantonly by the rulers, so people gradually believed that labor, especially heavy manual labor, was done by inferior people, and even felt that it was a shameful act.When the Roman ruling class began to become lazy and extravagant, their day of demise was getting closer and closer.

Laziness is the worst habit of man
Laziness is one of the most difficult bad habits of human beings to resist.

There is a foreigner who has traveled all over the world and knows the ethnic lifestyles of almost all countries and regions in the world.Someone asked him what is the greatest commonality among various ethnic groups, or what is the greatest characteristic.

The foreign friend said in broken English: "The biggest characteristic of human beings is that they are lazy and don't like labor."

From the royal aristocrats to the ordinary people, they are unwilling to do hard work and want to sit back and enjoy the rewards.In the depths of people's souls, there is already a bad habit of liking leisure and loathing work.Driven by laziness, people became its slaves, and attacked other nations under its temptation, and achieved the goal of getting something for nothing by robbing the fruits of labor of other nations.

Therefore, we can't enjoy leisure and work hard. The way to solve this problem is to work continuously.The British philosopher Mill thought so, and it is for this reason that the autocratic government was born.

Since ancient times, laziness and slack have been criticized by many people.Because whether it is an individual or a whole nation, laziness will lead them to the path of destruction, and laziness will make people lose the courage to fight.Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for people who are born lazy to succeed in society, only those who work hard will succeed.People controlled by laziness just hang around all day, do nothing, and are of no use to society.They will only lament that God is unfair to them, but in fact they are not working hard.

Burton is an Anglican priest in England, as well as an academic and author of The Anatomy of Melancholy.There are many Burton's unique and incisive viewpoints in the book. Although the content is a bit esoteric, it is very interesting.Johnson said that only this book can make him wake up two hours earlier every day, and then read this book.There is such a saying in this book: Laziness is not only bad for physical health, but also makes people mentally depressed, and ultimately achieves nothing.

Burton said: "Laziness is the root of all evil. It encourages the breeding of evil. In the seven deadly sins of Christianity, laziness is one of them. It is the root of evil that villains do. People will spurn a lazy dog, then a lazy dog Don’t expect others to look at him. Laziness is a very serious bad habit. It is very unfortunate for a smart person to have the bad habit of laziness. He will eventually be overthrown by laziness and become a person who creates evil deeds. Laziness controls his mind, and labor and industry have no place in his mind. At this time, their minds are like garbage dumps, and those evil, dirty thoughts will be as crazy as various parasites and bacteria grow, and make their hearts and minds wicked."

Then he said: "Therefore, we may conclude this: Whether it is a man or a woman, if laziness is allowed to control the heart, then their desires will never be satisfied. They will not have a loyal friend, they will not have True happiness, let alone a happy life. When one of their desires is met, because of their laziness, they will have higher desires. They always feel bored, always feel unsatisfied, always They hate all the beautiful things in society. They live in the illusion and sadness like flowers in the mirror, they will never see the light, and sometimes they even have pessimistic thoughts about leaving this world as soon as possible.”

The last sentence of the book "Anatomy of Melancholy" is also a concentrated expression of the essence of this book.Burton said at the end of the book: "We must never let my laziness and the negative thoughts born from it occupy my brain. We must keep this in mind and strictly follow this point at all times. .Only in this way can you have true happiness and joy, and your life will have meaning. If you don't follow this, you will be devastated and follow the path of evil. Remember: Laziness is never advisable of."

Some people hang around with nothing to do all day and don't want to because they're lazy.However, this doesn't mean that this kind of people don't use their brains, sometimes their brains are spinning very fast, what are they thinking?They are thinking about how to get the fruits of other people's labor, how to get something for nothing, and how to get property that does not belong to them.In a fertile rice field, if the rice seedlings do not grow luxuriantly, then there must be many weeds in it. How can many rice seedlings grow in a field full of weeds?Those who want to get something for nothing have a lot of "wrong ideas" in their minds.In broad daylight, the demon of laziness does not dare to appear, but in the hearts of those whose brains have been occupied by laziness, laziness has its place: "We are demons, sent by the God of Justice, to torture you These lazy and mediocre people."

Those who are mentally numb and unwilling to work do not have real happiness, and can only obtain happiness through their own efforts.People who work will also feel physical fatigue, and it will make people feel uncomfortable, but it will definitely not degrade people's spirit like laziness.

An elder believed that labor was the best medicine to cure human diseases.

Marshall?"Doing nothing and hanging around all day is the most boring thing anyone can do," Dr. Hall said.

An archbishop of Mainz thought: “The human body is like a millstone. Many people know that if you put wheat into the millstone, the millstone will turn the wheat into flour. But if we don’t Put wheat in, and the millstone will turn, but nothing will be ground.”

People who don't want to work use all kinds of excuses:

"There's a beast on that road ahead."

"This mountain is so high! It's not easy to go up!"

"Don't try, I've tried many times, but none of them succeeded."

For all kinds of excuses like the above, Samuel?Mr. Romilly once refuted in a letter to a young man: "I want to say very seriously that this is only because of your laziness, not that you can't do it. Don't find reasons such as 'you are too busy', That's just an excuse. Anyone can do what they can do well. "I'm too busy" has become a common excuse for some lazy people. If they don't do it well, they will say that they are not capable of doing it. Such excuses Also - if you can't write articles, some people will say: 'It's not that I don't want to write, it's because I don't have the ability to write articles.' If you don't want to do a certain job or task, you say you can't do it, your The excuse is that I am not up to the task. This is the way some people do things and habits, but in fact this is laziness, and if everyone thinks like this, then the world will not develop and will only stay where it is.”

Laziness is a form of self-harm

Charles?James?Fox is the most industrious and likes to work, and he always demands this from himself.

When he was Secretary of State, because he was very dissatisfied with his poor handwriting, he invited a person who was good at handwriting to teach him.After that, he kept copying and copying like a primary school student, and finally made great progress in writing.His body is a little fat, and others can't move at all, but he likes to move very much.When playing tennis, he always picks up the balls that fall on the ground.Everyone was very surprised and asked him why he did this.He jokingly replied: "Because I'm hardworking, and always have been."

The importance of labor is self-evident, and can even be seen as the foundation and driving force of personal progress and the process of national civilization.

If all a person's wishes can be realized without hard work, then this is not his luck, but his misfortune.Because, this means that his life goals can be achieved without struggle, so his life has not realized the meaning of the struggle process.In some ways, this life is the most disappointing life.

Horace Vera's elder brother died, Marquis Schinola asked Horace Vera, how did your brother die?

He replied: "He died doing nothing."

"Yes," said Schinola, "that's enough to kill us all!"

In this society, no matter what your status and status are, there is no reason not to participate in labor.

The [-]-year-old man John?Mr. Patterson said: "A person who has not done heavy manual labor is simply unworthy of being called a 'laborer'. Those who work in the fields are of course laborers. Laborer. I am also a laborer. I participated in labor when I was a child. Judge, this occupation is by no means as easy as we imagined. Although judges are paid well, they must work as hard as farmers Work. However, farmers are work, and judges are busy with many legal issues. They must be familiar with relevant facts, familiar with many legal provisions, and the judgment must be fair."

"He has to constantly think about some complicated cases, which will make him a little bored; every judgment is related to the interests of the lives of both parties. If you do not do the above work and start to make a judgment, you may die wronged. So a good judge must work hard and seriously. Regardless of others No matter how you look at it, those who really know judges will deeply realize how heavy the burden of being a judge is."

Regardless of whether you are noble or commoner, whether you are poor or rich, you must try your best to contribute to society and do your part.Even if you are a hereditary nobleman, you still need to contribute to society, and you cannot take everything for granted.If you are like a parasite and think that it is normal to live on the labor of others, then such a person will only eat, drink and have fun all day long.And these people can only be despised by the world.

Some people live their whole lives by eating the fruits of other people's labor, but they don't make any contribution to others.They are lazy and these people should be stripped of their privileges.Of course, not all privileged people just eat and drink for free, and many of them certainly try to contribute to society.Only those shameless people will be satisfied with eating and drinking for free, and spend every day safely in the eyes of the world.Some nobles have fallen, and the honor they enjoy does not match their own contributions, because their conscience has been wiped out, and their laziness and corruption have deeply eroded them.

If you don't want to pay, you want to succeed. Only lazy people have such thoughts.After hard work, people can truly appreciate the beauty of what they have harvested, and also appreciate the value of the harvest, and therefore cherish it.Similarly, when we recall this process, we will also feel happy, it is certain.A resort is a place of leisure, but if the consumption there is not earned by your labor, it is not really leisure.It is wrong to enjoy your labor without giving it.

Lessing, a German literary theorist and playwright, said: "It is terrible to be idle without thinking about progress. If God holds 'truth' in one hand and 'finding truth' in the other hand, and let us both If I had to choose one, I would say, 'God, I want to find the truth, it means a lot to my life. Leave the truth to you!'”

After intense labor, take a break and let yourself relax before working.This kind of rest and leisure is worthwhile. If you just rest for the sake of rest, or simply stay idle, the result can only be emptiness and depression.Excessive leisure is not good for the body, just like eating too much will make people feel uncomfortable.

Whether you are poor or rich, as long as you have nothing to do, you will become empty, bored, and boring.No matter who you are, as long as you don't work, you can't be happy.

A beggar in his 40s always felt that life was meaningless, so he chose to live in Bourget Prison in France for 8 years.A tattoo on his right arm reads: "The past has deceived me, the present has teased me, the future - I am full of fear." This sentence accurately describes the psychology of all lazy people in the world.

In 1869, Lord Stanley became the chancellor of the University of Glasgow. He gave a very touching speech at the inauguration ceremony: "A man who does nothing, no matter how loud his reputation is, and no matter how good-hearted he is, He will not and cannot be truly happy. Because life without labor is not life. I can know what kind of person you are from what you do. A person with good moral character should love Only in this way can we resist the erosion of various thoughts related to laziness. Moreover, only by loving labor and doing our duty can we get rid of many troubles caused by selfishness.

Some people think that by 'hiding in a small building to become a unified body', they will not be disturbed by the mundane affairs of the outside world, they will be able to live alone, and there will be no troubles and misfortunes.However, many 'recluses' say that even seclusion is equally troublesome and requires just as much hard work. "

(End of this chapter)