Thoreau: No matter how humble your life is.
No matter how humble your life is, face it squarely and move on; Don't avoid it, let alone make it worse. Your life is not as bad as you think. When you are the richest, your life looks the poorest.
The faultfinder can find faults even in heaven. Love your life, even if it is poor. Even if you are in a poor house, you can enjoy a happy, exciting and brilliant time. The setting sun in the west is reflected on the windows of poor people's homes, as radiant as it is on the mansions of rich people; The snow in front of the door melts in early spring. I only see that a calm person can live happily there with excited and optimistic ideas, just like living in a palace.
In my opinion, the urban poor often lead the most independent lives. Maybe they are too great to accept everything. Most people think that they are disdainful of receiving assistance from towns; But in fact, they often make a living by dishonest means, which is even more disgraceful. Cultivate poverty like a saint, like flowers in the garden. There is no need to go to great pains to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn over the old ones and give them back. Nothing has changed, but we are changing.
Clothes to sell, thoughts to stay. God will prove that you don't need society. If I am locked in a corner of the attic all day, like a spider, as long as I have my own thoughts, then the world is still as big as before. A philosopher once said: "The three armed forces can win the handsome position, but ordinary people can't win the ambition." Don't rush to develop yourself, don't let yourself be used by various influences, it's a waste. Humility is like darkness, showing the light of heaven. The shadow of poverty and meanness hangs over us. "Look! Everything in the world has expanded in our eyes. " We are often reminded that if God gives us the same wealth as Clotho, our goals must remain the same, and our means remain basically the same.
In addition, if you are bound by poverty, for example, you can't afford books and newspapers, your experience is only limited to the most meaningful and important part; You will have to deal with substances that can produce the most sugar and starch. But the life closest to the bone is the sweetest, and you can't be an idle person anymore. The generosity of the superior will not hurt anyone at the lower level. Excess wealth can only buy excess things. The soul necessary for human beings does not need to be purchased.
I live in the corner of a lead wall, which was poured with copper alloy at one o'clock. When I have a rest at noon, there are often waves of noisy noise coming into my ears from outside. This is the noise made by my contemporaries. My neighbors told me about their adventures with famous gentlemen and ladies and the dignitaries they met at the banquet table. But I am not interested in these things, just as I am interested in the content of the Daily Times. The objects of interest and the topics of conversation mainly revolve around clothes and manners; But a stupid goose will always be a stupid goose, so you can dress it up as anything you want. They kept nagging me about California and Texas, England and the East and West Indies, and the respected Mr. So-and-so from Georgia or Massachusetts, all of which were fleeting until I almost ran away from their yard like Lord Mamluk.
I like to enter my own world-I don't want to walk conspicuously in the grand parade, but I want to walk side by side with the creator of the universe on an equal footing, if possible-I don't want to live in this impetuous, neurotic, busy and frivolous19th century, but I want to disappear day by day with19th century, or stand or sit, or think.
What are people celebrating? They all attended a preparatory committee, always expecting a grand speech. God is only the rotating chairman today, and Webster is his orator. Those things that strongly and reasonably attract my attention, I like to weigh their weight, deal with them, and be attracted by them-never hang on the scale to try to reduce the weight-not to speculate on anything, but to deal with it completely according to its actual situation; Just take the only way I can, and nothing can stop me on this road. Starting to build an arch before laying a solid foundation will not bring me any satisfaction. The bottom anywhere is solid.
We read a story in which a traveler asked a boy if the bottom of the swamp in front of him was solid. The boy replied that it was solid. But soon, the traveler's horse fell into the swamp until it didn't reach his waist. He said to the boy, "I thought what you told me was that the bottom of this swamp is solid." "It's solid," the boy replied, "but you haven't reached the lower part of it yet." The same is true of the quagmire and quicksand of society, but only young and mature people understand this.