Mao Mu said in The Moon and Sixpence, "I tried my best and lived an ordinary life."

After trying to see the truth of life, I still have the courage to love life.

Have you heard the story of salmon?

Salmon was born in a small river, but grew up in the sea. When laying eggs, it must return to its birthplace.

Each pair of salmon may lay more than 4000 eggs. After laying eggs, salmon has exhausted its energy in life and died peacefully in the sea. Another spring has come. Young fish enter the freshwater lake along the river, grow in the freshwater lake for about a year, and grow in the sea.

Four years later, the mature salmon began their journey home. They swam upstream in the footsteps of their parents, from the vast Pacific Ocean to their birthplace, and began a glorious and tragic moment in their lives.

When they walked back from the estuary, the river was fast and needed to go upstream. At this time they can't stop to eat, because if they stop, they will be washed back by the river. Therefore, they can only go upstream 24 hours a day.

On the way upstream, in order to break through the rapids, they have to jump out of the water again and again. If they accidentally jump to the shore, they will become food for other animals. Some fish died when they reached their destination, because they exhausted all their energy and physical strength, and thousands of fish eggs died together.

When they finally reached their destination, they were all red, because their physical strength had been exhausted. At this time, salmon began to lay eggs, died peacefully after completing its mission, and began its next life cycle.

The life of salmon is full of challenges and dangers, and they need to overcome all kinds of dangers and hardships. Out of every 4,000 fish eggs, only two adult fish begin to flow out of the sea, swim against the current at the last moment of life, lay eggs and end their lives.

The long journey has created the vigorous vitality of salmon. The meaning of life is rich and passionate in their meaning. In the process of experience and growth, they have tried their best, even if they die peacefully and ordinary in the end. Always keep your love for life, so as not to be eliminated by the torrent of life.

(2) Accepting the ordinary is actually another kind of wealth.

San Mao once said: "Ordinary and simple, content with ordinary, really not simple."

It is not easy to accept the ordinary.

When I was a child, I always yearned for a vigorous life or a wonderful life in a TV series. Only the experience of growing up can teach you, smooth your hard thorns, break your cognition, and tell you that life is rolling in the world of mortals, that is, to accept the ordinary.

Accepting mediocrity does not mean mediocrity. It is not terrible to accept mediocrity, but to be willing to live a mediocre life.

Su Dongpo, a great scholar in the Song Dynasty, had a brilliant life and was also down and out. In such ups and downs, he realized that "life is like a trip, I am also a pedestrian", and all beings, you and I are ordinary people.

Su Shi became famous at a young age and caused a sensation in Beijing. Unexpectedly, his mother died suddenly, so he had to go home and be filial for three years.

Three years later, he was admitted to the Imperial Examination, and got the highest score in the Song Dynasty official examination at that time, becoming the best candidate in history. Unexpectedly, after many years as an official, he was demoted to Huangzhou because of Wutai poetry case, and then he was demoted twice.

In the days of being demoted, Su Dongpo learned to earn his own living and reclaim wasteland. From a monk temple to a rural farmer, Su Shi was complacent, calling himself a "Dongpo layman" and enjoying the ordinary life of the market wholeheartedly.

Many people's lives can't reach the height of Su Dongpo. Try your best to live, but live a plain life and do ordinary things.

Accepting the ordinary is to find your own position and strive to realize your own value; The rest of my life is not long, and having a normal heart is actually a valuable asset.

(C) return to the ordinary, how to spend an ordinary day

Jiang Xun said in his book Ten Lectures on Life:

A confident person feels full and rich about what he has. He may feel envious and admired when he sees what others have but he doesn't have, and then he likes to admire, but he still looks back at himself safely.

Ordinary life is dull, contented and smooth, but it is also full of fireworks. Ordinary is a rich feeling and a safe way to be yourself.

Ordinary is a contented state of mind, cherish ordinary life and live an ordinary life. So, how should we spend an ordinary day?

First, get into the habit of getting up early and keep exercising.

An ordinary day begins in the morning.

"A day's work lies in the morning." Kobe can see what Los Angeles looks like at four in the morning. I didn't understand the meaning of getting up early until I met a job I liked very much, but I was far from home, so I forced myself to get up early every day. Later I learned that people who work hard in Beijing get up earlier than you.

There are always people who do better than you. Because they have the habit of getting up early, getting up early makes you wake up earlier, face the day more calmly, get up in the morning to exercise, and the day is full of energy and more conducive to work.

Getting up early can also form many good habits, such as eating breakfast on time, not staying up late at night and brushing your mobile phone less. As long as we can stick to this habit, we can enhance our willpower. Stick to the habit of getting up early, it can subtly change your life track, even your life track.

Second, learn to take care of yourself.

No matter how hard and tired you are, you should take care of yourself. The most basic method is to stick to a ritualized life. Ritual life is to arrange life without perfunctory and self-discipline.

I met a friend when I was working in Beijing. I learned a lot about fireworks from her. She is a younger sister than me, working hard alone in Beijing. Although we lived in poverty and rented a humble house at that time, she was really diligent. She buys food, cooks and cleans the house after work, washes clothes that day and never orders takeout. After that, I began to arrange my evening life, learn to swim, practice calligraphy and do what I like. Not only enrich yourself, but also enrich your life.

We have lived together for nearly two years. In the past two years, I have learned her living habits, enriched my humble life, and turned my humble home into a warm home, which can fill my tired body and soul.

Third, cultivate several hobbies.

Cultivate your hobbies and enrich your day. This kind of life is not wasted, but also very meaningful. Writing, illustration, photography, painting or going to the gym can all make you more creative.

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That's how people live.

If you are an ordinary person, you will not dwell on the immediate gains and losses; Accept the ordinary, in order to reduce the burden and get on the road easily.

Sometimes, on the road, you can harvest a new scene of "a bright future"