What is the purpose of people living? How should people live? This is a difficult problem that has puzzled people for many years.
Mr Cai Lan was once asked this question.
"The purpose of being a man is just to eat and drink?"
"yes. I have been studying the meaning of life for most of my life, and the answer is still eating and drinking. "
Recently, I was reading Cai Lan's Life as I Want, and found that Mr. Cai Lan lived a free and easy life, which made his life what he wanted. But in Mr Cai Lan's seemingly simple eating and drinking, there is a profound philosophy of life. If you don't know how to live, you can read Mr. Cai Lan's book, and you may find an answer that suits you.
At the beginning of Live as You Want, Mr. Cai Lan thinks that if you are alive, you should enjoy life. How can I have fun? Mr Cai Lan said so.
If a person wants to live a full life and live himself, he must first have talent, the so-called capital. Only when young people learn more and enrich themselves can they have a future.
If you don't make progress, you still think proudly, "This world is mine." Where is the future? For those young people who refuse to make progress, Mr. Cai Lan said, "From their wrinkle-free faces, they see their aging future, which is very pitiful."
Mr. Cai Lan believes that "whimsy is a good thing." Compared with no idea and no goal, being whimsical is really a good thing. Mr Cai Lan said that he likes daydreaming, so he does it in the morning and at night. He thought his idea was mature, so he got up and did it. As a result, Mr Cai Lan turned many daydreams into reality and lived his favorite life.
It suddenly occurred to me that Mr. Cai Lan could start a daydreaming company and sell it to those who never dream.
In today's world, health care is very popular, and almost every adult can give several health care suggestions. No matter how bad the food is, as long as it is good for your health, you can swallow it directly without frowning. No matter how delicious things are, as long as they are not good for your health, you should stay away. No matter how expensive the health care products are, there are always people who spend a lot of money to buy them.
Regarding health care, Cai Lan said: "Pay attention to health care, and to put it bluntly, you are afraid of death. A person who travels more, reads more and experiences everything in life should not die. This person is absolutely mentally healthy. " He believes that the current medical reports have reached the level of pollution.
When the world advocates quitting smoking and drinking, Mr. Cai Lan thinks that smoking, drinking and making love are not only physical enjoyment, but also spiritual enjoyment. With spiritual savings, people can do well.
Cai Lan said that in order to enjoy the happiness of life, it is worthwhile to sacrifice a little bit of health, otherwise, it is a punishment for life to live to 100 years old, but there are not even any good memories.
As far as clothing is concerned, Cai Lan has his own opinions. Whether you wear a suit or jeans, you must wear what you want to wear, not what others want you to wear. This is the minimum requirement of freedom in life.
Only by living according to your own ideas can you enjoy life.
Cai Lan believes that eating and drinking is also a kind of respect for life.
"You are a foodie, why aren't you fat?" When a friend asked Cai Lan, Cai Lan snickered in her heart. Of course, if he tasted everything, he wouldn't gain weight, but he replied seriously: "People who really eat are not fat."
Mr Cai Lan divides drinkers into two categories, one is drinkers, and the other is drunk. Too much, not drinking, but getting drunk. But a real drinker can be allowed to indulge several times in his life. Even when he is drunk, he is absolutely beautiful in the saddest and happiest times.
Cai Lan thinks that men smoking cigars is the most beautiful thing in the world. For the onlookers who know how to appreciate, it is simply a kind of visual enjoyment. Looking at long cigarettes, wasting cigars and wasting time.
Cai Lan likes to visit bookstores and regards it as a great pleasure in life, which many people who buy books online don't understand.
The "shopping" he said is conditional and must have leisure; The storefront should not be too big, and you should appreciate it slowly; Limited to familiar places and people; There must be one or two capable shop assistants. These are all part of the bookstore. Without them, bookstores are not qualified to be called bookstores.
Mr. Cai Lan advocated travel and recommended Jack Kerouac's semi-autobiographical book On the Road. Cai Lan said that as soon as you come into contact with it, you will catch a kind of "wanderlust", and you will love traveling from now on and enjoy it for life. The strongest message released by this book is: drop everything and go!
Kerouac wrote from Chicago: "I just want to disappear in the middle of the night, hide on a road and see what people in my country are doing ..."
At any time, there is nothing wrong with doing what you like and what you feel happy about.
Cai Lan believes that eating, drinking and having fun every day is nothing more for life. Although he always emphasized that the meaning of life lies in eating and drinking, he realized the philosophy of life in eating and drinking.
Cai Lan often encourages young people to read more books and travel more, saying that these are their spiritual food and can be used for memories when they are old. Otherwise, when I am old, my eyes are empty and there is no story in my heart. I can only look at the distance blankly, very sad.
Even if you have no money, you can live happily. Everything depends on your mentality. "It's free to take a walk and see the flowers."
Face up to difficulties bravely and keep an optimistic attitude. "Any sadness and pain will be cured by time, so there is an old saying that some days are herbs and only time is the absolute panacea."
Cai Lan told young people to have some self-esteem. Never bow and scrape to the boss, and the boss is not against the family. There is no need to be a slave for a career. Being neither humble nor supercilious is the most correct and desirable.
In order to keep a happy mood, Cai Lan emphasized not to waste time on unnecessary people; Forget what should be forgotten; Do something inappropriate, because the more inappropriate, the happier; Many meaningless things are meaningful. ...
In short, if you are unhappy every day, it is a great loss to yourself. Try to be a humorous person and be happy for yourself and others.
If you really want to worry, wait until tomorrow.
A person will only let go if he knows, and only the life he has let go is the real life. Perhaps that's what I mean by Mr. Cai Lan's "Unity of knowledge and action is life".
A friend once asked Cai Lan, what do you want others to think of you most? He replied, "I just want to be a person." Further explanation, the most basic thing for a person is to try not to look at other people's faces, and there is no need to look.
In many of his works, Cai Lan always thought that getting old was not a terrible thing, because he said that every stage he went through was full.
Although most of Mr. Cai Lan's works are about daily trifles, each one is full of wisdom, which makes people realize after reading it.
Excerpts from the titles of several articles are as follows, which are clear at a glance:
When everything is external, the less the better.
He who knows how to admit defeat is the cleverest.
Being poor and happy is better than being rich and unhappy.
Trying to get rid of bad habits is a basic respect for people.
it's not a big deal
Many meaningless things are meaningful.
Being a man and doing things makes people have confidence in you.
If you want to do something, do it at once.
Change of heart is human nature, not a sin.
Women dislike men's ambiguity the least.
It is manly to let a woman have a crush on her for a lifetime.
I have always been very open-minded about having children.
If a person wants to live for what others say, it is also very sad.
How long is life? It's a long time because there are countless sunrises and sunsets. It's very short, as if it was young yesterday, and now it's half-life. But as long as you are serious and happy, it is enough. "If you are unhappy, how can longevity be a blessing?" Cai Lan said so.
Life is nothing more than living in one's constant choice and destiny. Anyway, living well and having fun is the meaning of life.