The value of a man’s life

No matter what profession we engage in, we should all be determined not to abandon or destroy the noblest and most beautiful elements in our lives for the sake of money. We should take advantage of various opportunities to infuse "beauty" into our lives. If you like beautiful things, your life will naturally contain beautiful elements, and the ideal of beauty will be revealed in your words and deeds. No matter what profession you are engaged in, as long as you cherish the virtues in life, your life will be purified, improved, and enriched. To give oneself up completely, to devote oneself to everything that is more perfect, purer, and truer, is the whole secret of greatness. The value of life lies in completing the mission. Our responsibility is to take over the torch from the previous person and pass it on to the next person, and the value of our lives is realized in the process of passing the torch to the next person. My dear child, you once asked me: What is the value of life? I remember that my answer at the time was: The value of life lies in happiness. You certainly couldn't understand this sentence at the time, and the responsibility does not lie with you. At that time, I felt that you were still young and did not answer you seriously. Now, it is time for you to understand this question. Throughout the ages, humans have been asking questions, but no one can give a standard answer. This is a too serious and profound question. Most philosophical questions do not have a definite answer like scientific questions. I think this is the so-called philosopher who comes up with what he thinks is correct through speculation and publicizes the results of this speculation! There is no clear answer, which requires us to think and experience it with our hearts. Human beings are the noblest animals on earth. The reason why humans are nobler than all animals in the future is that humans have a soul and a brain that can think about problems. However, what is happiness? Why is happiness the value of life? Actually, I can't give you the exact answer, because I am no better than a philosopher. Here, I can only talk to you about the value of life based on my decades of life experience and experience. Of course, I hope that you can have your own opinions and practice them personally, even if you have to pay for your opinions and beliefs with your life. The most miserable people are not those who don't get the value of life, but those who never think about this issue. The value of life lies in completing the mission. Some people compare life to a torch race that began the day humans were born. There is a profound truth in this. Each of us can only walk one leg of the race. We come from darkness and eventually return to darkness. Our responsibility is to take over the torch from the previous person and pass it on to the next person, and the value of our lives is realized in the process of passing the torch to the next person. If the torch is not extinguished by wind and rain during our walking process, or if it burns brighter, then we will have completed the improvement of life and reflected the value of life. If a person never pursues his mission, he will be like a ship without a driver, drifting aimlessly in the vast sea, drifting with the current, ups and downs. Such a life is meaningless and worthless. . A person cannot be considered a real person without a mission. The difference between humans and animals may be that humans have a conscious mission, while animals only have the instinct to survive. The reason why a person is morally corrupt is because he does not have a correct mission; the reason why a person is great is because he has a great mission. Human mission is an ideal of life, which is nurtured and grown in people's hearts, but human mission must ultimately be implemented into action. The value of life can only be truly realized at the moment when the mission is completed. Everyone has their own way of life. In this regard, we cannot simply judge this way or that way, which one is more correct? Which one is better? What is important is that everyone enjoys their own lifestyle, achieves happiness in life, and ultimately realizes the value of life? I believe that enjoyment mainly includes physical enjoyment and spiritual enjoyment. Physical enjoyment is material enjoyment, and money, food, sex, etc. all belong to material enjoyment. Spiritual enjoyment is spiritual enjoyment. Here, I do not deny physical enjoyment. I am not an ascetic Puritan or anything like that. But only by paying attention to spiritual enjoyment, pursuing spiritual sublimity and soul sublimation, having a belief and working for this belief for a lifetime until finally giving up one's life can one truly fulfill his mission as a human being and the value of life. Life is a process, not a process. Many people live in order to achieve their goals in blindness. In the process of achieving this goal, they use any means, and they often only focus on whether they can achieve the goal, but cannot enjoy the process of achieving the goal. Don't think that hard study during the student stage is just to lay the foundation for future career success. In fact, the learning process is a fun-filled process, in which you must obtain spiritual satisfaction and enjoyment. Childhood and adolescence are also the most precious stages in a person's life. If the personality growth at this stage is ignored, the person's life will not be complete. A good painter or sculptor is completely intoxicated during the creation process. However, when the work is completed, they can appreciate their work with a spectator's mentality. When a musician plays a piece of music, he has devoted himself wholeheartedly to it and gets spiritual satisfaction during the performance. What he is pursuing is not the applause after the song ends.

These artists all experience fun and spiritual enjoyment in the process. Similarly, people can only truly realize their own life value in the process of completing their mission.