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Understanding of happiness and pain

One summer, I traveled along the Yellow River. I stood on the Bank of the Yellow River countless times and watched the surging river roll like a yellow dragon from the sky, turning my heart into boundless grandeur; Watching the sunset melt into the river like blood again and again, I feel as if life has been re stained again and again, and I have the impulse to rush to the sea every time.

However, what makes me feel the most is such a thing. Once on the edge of the Yellow River, I filled a bottle of river water with a bottle. The water mixed with sediment is still very turbid after being filled into the water bottle. Through the bottle, you can see only the turbid and yellow world. Behind the bottle, you can't see the sky or the earth. In the face of such water, I feel pain and despair, the rising riverbed of the Yellow River brings disaster, and the cry of people in this disaster. I put the water bottle on the side and sat painfully on the bank, staring at the Yellow River in a daze.

After some time, I looked back from a distance and suddenly found that the water in the bottle began to clear. The muddy sediment began to settle, and the water in the upper part of the bottle became clearer and clearer. I watched this change until all the sediment settled, accounting for only one fifth of the whole bottle, and the other four fifths turned into a clear river. I slowly raised the bottle, through which I saw the sky, the earth, and the boundary between happiness and pain in life.

Originally, our happiness and pain are like the Yellow River water. In the rush and impetuosity, we shook our life desperately until life became turbid and all happiness was mixed with pain. If clear water is happiness and sediment is pain, the total amount of happiness in our life should be greater than pain. We feel pain from time to time, not because pain is more than happiness, but because we use inappropriate ways to make pain run like a runaway wild horse in every corner of our life. Because of the penetration of pain, our life, which should have been as clear as water, has become like the water of the Yellow River, with too many impurities. If we can calm down and let the pain precipitate at the bottom of our hearts, no matter whether it will disappear or not, we will only let it occupy a small space in our hearts, and most of the rest will be filled with happiness. Since birth, the total amount of happiness and pain experienced by everyone in his life should be almost the same. The reason why some people are more painful and others are happier is not that people have different attitudes towards happiness, but that people have different attitudes towards pain. Thinking of this, I shook the water bottle, and the water that had become very clear became turbid again in an instant.

The difficulty of life is that we can't let life stand still, so we can completely separate pain and happiness, and completely precipitate the pain in a forgotten corner so that it won't roll. In our life, pain and happiness are more or less mixed together. If we can't extricate ourselves from it, life will lose its essential meaning. So, is it meaningless to live a mixed life of pain and happiness?

I turned my eyes to the Yellow River again and found that it was so magnificent and beautiful. The surging river turned turbid waves, flowed over from the other end of the horizon, flowed under my feet, and disappeared at the other end of the horizon, making people feel the vitality of our planet. I suddenly realized that if we can continuously enlarge people's life to the grandeur of the Yellow River, come from ancient times and the horizon, and flow to the future and the sea, then our life will no longer have to be compared with the mixture of happiness and pain, but become an endless Yellow River symphony.