哲学

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.

前一段日子，偶然又看了几集 千王之王重出江湖。其中有一集说到了沈胜天和龙四的决裂，两个人各执己见最后断绝师徒关系。

原则是什么？原则是一个人判断事情的准则，或者说价值观，但又不完全是。我想，还需要再加上一条：不会轻易改变。没有原则的人，要么对于事情的是非没有观念，要么对于是非的判断会经常发生变化，和这样的人长期合作会比较危险。

以下内容引用蛇s：

UNIX的原则是"你丫爱用不用！"
“我就提供对的功能，你丫要是用错了活该！”

From here。

我們很容易看到別人的優點. 像是某人很漂亮啦, 工作能力很強啦, 人緣很好啦, 但我們很少能看到自己的長處及自己的價值. 這也許是一種傳統教育下過度謙虛的表現, 因為要嚴以律己, 所以對自己的要求與批評就很多, 期望也就過高, 常常造成否定自己的心態; 認為自己很多地方都不夠好, 久而久之, 就產生了自卑感, 失去了自信心, 認為自己的存在沒什麼價值, 因而活得非常消沉, 甚至厭世.

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。

Long long ago, 一天，有个人碰到了Jesus，问他说要怎样才能进天堂？Jesus说我这有一个十字架，很高很重，你今后干什么都要背着它，直到死去；那人听了很高兴，立即就背上了去；接下来的日子里他每天都背着这个又高又重的十字架做事情，其他人看到就笑他说，你干什么要背这么大一个家伙，干什么都不方便，拿掉算了；起初那人心里还是很坚定的，继续坚持；时间长了，他也累了，开始妥协说，那我背还是背，就把高的部分截掉一块算了，于是他开始背改造过的十字架，舒服多了，其他人也不那么在意了；一天，他发现Jesus站在云端，他自己站在另一片云上，Jesus说，过来吧，和我一起生活；那人问道，要怎么过去呢？Jesus告诉他说，就用我给你的十字架架在这之间就可以了啊；于是那人放下自己的十字架，刚想放过去，那十字架就掉到下面的火湖里去了……

假如将全世界各种族的人口按一个一百人的村庄且按比例来计算的话，
那么，这个村庄将有：

——57名亚洲人——21名欧洲人——14名美洲人（包括拉丁美洲）——8名非洲人——52名女人和48名男人——30名白人和70名非白人——30名基督教徒和70名非基督教徒——89名异性恋者和11名同性恋——6人拥有全村财富的89%，而这6人均来自美国——80人住房条件不好——70人为文盲 ——50人营养不良——1人正在死亡——1 人正在出生——1人拥有电脑——1人（对，只有一人）拥有大学文凭。

如果我们以这种方式认识世界，那么忍耐与理解则变得再明显不过了。

感谢 Bruce 给的链接。

罗兰

一个人的处境是苦是乐常是主观的。

有人安于某种生活，有人不能。因此能安于自己目前处境的不妨就如此生活下去，不能的只好努力另找出路。你无法断言哪里才是成功的，也无法肯定当自己到达了某一点之后，会不会快乐。

整理东西的时候发现一篇以前写的笔记。

感谢 neo 同学提供的录音。由于原链接已经失效，请移步 YouTube 观看斯坦福大学于 2008 年 5 月发布的视频版本。

「Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.」求知若饥，虚心若愚。

2 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

Thank you.

I’m honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told, I never graduated from college, and this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today, I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots. I dropped out of Reed College after the first six months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife – except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl.

So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking, “We’ve got an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?” They said, “Of course.” My biological mother found out later that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would go to college. This was the start in my life.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents’ savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn’t see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life.