After the Slow Time Book Bar opened on December 6, 2015, I always had the idea to share everything in Slow Time with everyone, whether it is love, family affection, knowledge, or art.
Because in slow time, you will always meet interesting and wonderful people. They pass by my world and stay in slow time, making slow time filled with wisdom and fun everywhere!
I would like to try to be a writer, record their stories, and tell them to everyone together with my insights!
At 8 pm on November 17, I shared the book "Departure" with a group of book-loving friends for the first time through the WeChat group platform. While lamenting the development of science and technology, I also enjoyed the joy of sharing.
I give roses to others and leave fragrance in my hands. I am the one who grows the most in the process of sharing. I would like to thank my friends who listened that night.
The sharing content is as follows: Hello everyone, I am very happy to spend this wonderful evening with so many friends who love learning and reading.
First, allow me to introduce myself: I have been trying to be a "slash youth" recently.
You may ask, "What is slash youth?" The word comes from the English word Slash, which comes from a book written by "New York Times" columnist Merrick Alber, titled "Double Career."
Slash youth refers to a group of people who are no longer satisfied with a "single career" lifestyle, but choose a diversified life with multiple careers and identities.
These people will use slashes to distinguish them in their self-introductions, for example: Zhang San, reporter/actor/photographer, and "slash" has become synonymous with them.
Slash youth is becoming more and more popular and has become a lifestyle that young people are passionate about.
At present, I only have dual professional identities: one is that I have worked in a listed company for nearly fifteen years, during which I held multiple positions and managed a team of hundreds of people; at the same time, I also founded the Slow Time Book Bar last year for the purpose of
Give more people a place to rest and recharge, and make the next journey of life go better.
Why is the book bar named "Slow Time"?
It’s related to the book I’m sharing with you today, the title is “Breaking Away”.
? The book "Departure" is a work by the Japanese author Eiko Yamashita.
Yamashita Eiko was born in Tokyo and graduated from the Faculty of Letters of Waseda University in Japan. She began to learn yoga during her college years, and through yoga she understood the practice philosophy of letting go of obsessions in the heart - "breaking the line, abandoning the line, and leaving the line."
Since 2000, as a debris management consultant, she has held lectures on homelessness throughout Japan, attracting interviews from major Japanese media such as NHK, TBS, TV Tokyo, Mainichi Shimbun, and Nihon Keizai Shimbun.
The lecture on "Duan Sheli" has become a popular topic in society, setting off a wave of upsurge of "Duan Sheli" among the whole people, and the number of followers is increasing day by day.
This book was published in China in 2013, and Zhang Defen, a writer of body, mind and soul, wrote a preface and recommended it.
It is still ranked 14th on Dangdang’s list of inspirational books.
So what exactly is "Breaking Away" about?
In fact, the content of this book can be summarized in three sentences, that is: get rid of unnecessary things, discard unnecessary waste, and break away from attachment to items.
What is break?
Just like the math problems we did when we were young, a pool has a water inlet and an outlet. Each is given a flow rate, and then let us calculate how much water is in the pool after a certain period of time?
Cutting off means closing the water inlet so that items that are unnecessary and have nothing to do with you do not come in, but it does not close.
For example, when female friends go to the supermarket to buy milk, they often see five bags of milk and a glass bowl as a gift. I believe many people originally wanted to buy three bags of milk, but when they see a bowl, they buy five bags.
When I take the glass bowl home, I don’t actually use it, it’s just because it was given as a free gift.
The result is a pile of bowls stacked in the kitchen cabinets, which takes up our living space and exudes negative energy.
Another situation is when you buy a lot of things you don’t use out of vanity.
Take myself as an example and make a fool of myself.
In the past few years, due to work reasons, I went abroad about once a year. The first time I went abroad was to Taiwan in 2010. My colleagues kept buying, buying, buying there, and I couldn't control it. No matter whether it suited me or not, I looked at it.
If you like it, buy it.
After I came back, I found that I had bought a lot of useless things, and some of them were just sitting there unused.
Later, when I went to Japan, I thought that I must not buy random things this time, but only buy things that can be used. However, there was still a small amount of things that were kept on the shelf.
From then on, whenever I went out, I never bought anything except local delicacies.
There are countless similar examples. For example, I originally followed no less than 20 of the WeChat public accounts we follow, but only three or five of them I actually read every day.
I believe that many of my friends, like me, are always disturbed by unread messages with red letters that take up our energy every time we open WeChat.
Since I understood the meaning of "break", I will clean up the public accounts I follow every month and stop following all those that have not been opened for a long time.
So how to break it?
We only need to look at items from the relationship axis and timeline.
Every time you go shopping, ask yourself: Do I really like this thing?
Is it something I will use now and often?
If so, buy it, if not, put it down first.
Remember not to accept things you don’t need and only add necessary items.