人生

百年之后zz

Have you ever thought about this?

In 100 years, like in 2124, we will all be buried with our relatives and friends.

Strangers will live in our homes we fought so hard to build, and they will own everything we have today. All our possessions will be unknown and unborn, including the car we spent a fortune on, and will probably be scrap, preferably in the hands of an unknown collector.

Our descendants will hardly know who we were, nor will they remember us. How many of us know our grandfather’s father?

After we die, we will be remembered for a few more years, then we are just a portrait on someone’s bookshelf, and a few years later our history, photos and deeds disappear in history’s oblivion. We won’t even be memories.

If we paused one day to analyze these thoughts, perhaps we would understand how ignorant and weak the dream to achieve it all really was.

If we could only think about this, surely our approaches, our thoughts would change, we would be different people.

Always having more, no time for what’s really valuable in this life. I’d change all this to live and enjoy the walks I’ve never taken, these hugs I didn’t give, these kisses for our children and our loved ones, these jokes we didn’t have time for. Those would certainly be the most beautiful moments to remember, after all they would fill our lives with joy.

And we waste it day after day with greed and intolerance.

小故事一则zz

有这样一个老太太，她有两个儿子，大儿子是染布的，二儿子是卖伞的，她整天为两个儿子发愁。天一下雨，她就会为大儿子发愁，因为不能晒布了；天一放晴，她就会为二儿子发愁，因为二儿子的伞卖不出去了。老太太总是愁眉紧锁，没有一天开心的日子，弄得疾病缠身，骨瘦如柴。一位哲学家告诉她，为什么不反过来想呢？天一下雨，你就为二儿子高兴，因为他可以卖伞了；天一放晴，你就为大儿子高兴，因为他可以晒布了。在哲学家的开导下，老太太以后天天都是乐呵呵的，身体自然健康起来了。