shadow
Tolstoy said: all the changes, charms and beauty in life are made up of light and shadow. This statement makes sense. It is a summary after experiencing twists and turns and feeling life. In fact, he told us that there is no so-called smooth sailing in the world, some are rainbows seen after clearing the fog, some are getting up after falling, and some are mature and sophisticated after repeated setbacks. And this constitutes our rich life. Life without ups and downs is monotonous and meaningless.
If Helen Keller hadn't been blind since she was a child, she wouldn't be so eager for light, and she wouldn't have written that touching article: If I had three days of light. Light is out of reach for her, and the long darkness has not made her lose her yearning for light. She constantly cultivated her knowledge and understanding of the world in the dark and gradually planted bright seeds for herself in the dark world. Physical defects did not make her a person abandoned by life, but made her a strong person and a master of fate. The shadow in her life has become the most glorious part of her life, which has turned her from a hopeless disabled person into a successful person with healthy and beautiful mind. If we take the setbacks in her life, the despair and failure that ordinary people can't understand as a shadow, then we will not be troubled by the shadow for a long time and believe in the future, which will constitute her bright road.
A person who tries to live a smooth life is doomed to experience twists and turns. Fate is the same for everyone. From a secular point of view, the rich children around us may be richer than your family and have more wealth to rely on than you, but the rich also have the same troubles as the rich. They are always worried that so much property will be used up sooner or later, in case it is robbed. Because everything is so smooth, they often forget to care about the people around them and do something for an era and a country in their rich and luxurious lives. Therefore, the selfishness and low morality of the rich second generation have also become the focus of social attention. Without the struggle experience of their peers, whether they can withstand the test of future life when they grow up in a greenhouse has become the concern of their parents and even themselves. These over-proud, sleek rich second generation, if allowed to pamper and grow up without frustration education, will inevitably fall into a situation of doing nothing and doing nothing.
There is a good song: failed, we can choose to start again. This applies to everyone. Because everyone can't guarantee that everything will go smoothly in his life, especially in youth, when we go to the society and need to face everything independently and work hard on our own, we should realize that setbacks may happen at any time, but we just need to believe that failure is a successful mother and give us experience and courage to deal with difficulties in the future. What can we fear?
People who have experienced hardships will become the wealth of their lives, enrich their life experiences, and thus add rich music to their lives. People like that are always optimistic about everything. The so-called "look at the clouds and clouds, see the flowers bloom and fall" is the truth. Bitterness and pleasure in life, like shadow and light, are two sides of the same coin. We see hope because of the light, and see our own gap because of shadows, failures and setbacks, so as to find the reason to move on. Therefore, our route is advancing in twists and turns. We are like sailors who constantly adjust their course, but the goal is to reach the other side successfully. People can't be smooth sailing all their lives, but shadows won't hang over us all their lives, so we should choose to sing the light eagerly and face the shadows bravely!
Perfect front and back
Bad blue eyes
There is such a story. A child waded through mountains and rivers in search of happiness, but he couldn't find it for a long time. When he was very depressed, he met a fairy. The fairy asked him why he was so sad. The child told the fairy that he had been looking for happiness, but he never found it. The fairy smiled and said, don't you find that you have gained something along the way? You already know what misfortune is. Isn't that happiness?
It turns out that I have tasted misfortune and found happiness. Happiness is the sense of gain, satisfaction and personal experience when you really experience absolute misfortune.
In the journey of life, we often pursue perfection, hoping to stay away from negative things and only touch and harvest positive things, always thinking that negative things are unnecessary at all. It should be noted that in the process of pursuing perfection, we will encounter many bumps, and it is precisely because of the flatness we hope in the thorns that it is particularly flat.
We praise light only because we have suffered from darkness.
Because of the light, the shadow becomes hopeful, and because of the shadow, the light is more dazzling. All perfection, harmony, charm and change in this world are composed of two opposing sides.
There is a children's song "Plant the Sun", which expresses a beautiful and naive wish: I hope to plant the sun, plant the next sun and bear many suns. I hope the sun will be hung in the Antarctic and the Arctic Ocean at night, so that the whole world will be bright. Don't you know what a terrible thing it would be if this wish came true? Day and night, cold and hot, these opposite natural phenomena constitute the perfect law. We feel safer because there is day and night. Because of the night, the day has become a new beginning of everything. How boring our life will be if day and night are mixed together? Although the cold in the Arctic and Antarctic is daunting, it is also a happy paradise for many hardy animals. Some time ago, I saw a picture. Due to global warming, the living environment of many polar bears has been challenged. In the picture, the poor bear struggles on the melting ice, which makes people complain.
In short, absolute perfection does not exist, just like absolute darkness, everything is made up of positive and negative sides, and the best is nothing more than that, just like Tolstoy's famous saying that all changes in life, all charm and all beauty are made up of light and shadow. Only by knowing how to appreciate defects can we truly appreciate beauty; It is precisely because of the beautiful experience that we can better appreciate the shortcomings. In this way, positive and negative sides, build a perfect life.
(About the author: bad blue eyes, columnist, author of Love Call Transfer, etc. )
Colorful light and shadow, the song of life
tall
What is light? Did the sun give the world endless brilliance? Is it the yearning of ancient and modern politicians for the cause of opening up? Or your longing for a better life? Perhaps, light can be transformed into different realms in everyone's mind, but it is also the common pursuit that all sentient beings yearn for, yearn for, pay for and strive for. Light always represents beauty, and the world is dazzling because of its light, just like a gorgeous stage and colorful neon lights in the city. So, have you ever thought about the shadow behind the light?
Yes, the light is bright and dazzling because there is a shadow behind her. Light and shadow are like a pair of twin sisters. Our journey of pursuing light is actually looking in the shadow, and the other end of the shadow must be light.
From shadow to light, it is the hardships and efforts we need to pay in our unremitting pursuit. Throughout the ages, how many successful politicians and scientific masters have never struggled in the process of striving for their ideals? In order to realize the light in their hearts, they are willing to be silent in the temporary darkness and endure material poverty and spiritual suffering. This may be what most people need to experience before they realize their ideals. Su Qin in the Warring States and Sun Jing in the Eastern Han Dynasty vividly demonstrated their efforts at the beginning of success, and now they are household names. Kuang Heng in the Western Han Dynasty was also constantly striving for self-improvement, stealing gloss from the wall and later becoming a learned Confucian scholar. In modern China, in order to save China from from the mire, liberate the suffering people, and usher in the dawn of new China, awakened people with lofty ideals gave their lives and shed their blood, and fought hard with feudal forces and foreign invaders. How much blood was paid before the heroic declaration of "China people stood up from now on" and the miracle China standing in the world today.
Shadow is a barrier to light that hinders our success. A person, even a country, will never have a smooth road to realize his ideals and success, and there will always be opposition and restraint from a few saboteurs. /kloc-At the beginning of the 6th century, Copernicus put forward Heliocentrism and wrote the great theory of celestial bodies. However, due to the pressure of the church, it was not published, and the disclosure of the truth was banned. /kloc-At the end of 0/9th century, the reform led by Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao was to get rid of the shackles of the old forces and actively modernize China, but it was strongly opposed by the conservative forces led by Empress Dowager Cixi. The process of pursuing light is also a process of constantly breaking through various barriers.
Shadow is the weakness of our human nature, which is beyond our personal power. Everyone lives in society and is a part of it. The strength of an individual is limited, but the strength of the whole society is unlimited. As the old saying goes, "Teaching and learning have priority, and there is specialization in technical fields." Everyone has his own strengths and weaknesses. We not only need to appreciate and affirm a person's career success, but also need to tolerate other shortcomings of a person. Perhaps it is precisely because of its shortcomings that it can achieve its glory on the other hand.
Light and shadow complement each other. Light without shadow is just dazzling white light without vitality, so we don't know the existence of light. I suddenly remembered the kaleidoscope that brought me endless joy when I was a child, and I changed a lot with a slight turn. Yes, if there is no shadow, will it become endless colors?
(About the author: Gao, member of Shandong Writers Association and director of Jinan Writers Association. Published novels include The Seven-year Itch, Lovers and Relatives, The Seven-year Itch 2, The Age of Paper Marriage, etc. Among them, The Seven-Year Itch has been made into a TV series. )
shadow
Chen Zhong
Light and shadow are like two sides of a leaf.
Where there is light, there must be shadows. Even if the sun falls on the petals, there will be shadows, let alone life.
American writer O Henry told a story in his novel The Last Leaf: In the ward, a dying patient saw a tree outside the window, and the leaves fell one by one in the autumn wind. The patient looked at the rustling leaves in front of him and his health went from bad to worse. She said, "When all the leaves are gone, I will die." When an old painter learned about it, he drew a leaf with green veins with a colored pen and hung it on a branch. The last leaf never fell. Because of the green color in life, the patient miraculously survived.
Light needs to be found by yourself, and shadows can only be dispelled by light.
If your heart is full of light, you will feel warm and happy; If your heart is covered with shadows, you will feel cold and depressed.
Lin Yutang once said, "In the face of sunshine, the shadow is always behind you." Life will inevitably encounter difficulties and hardships. Don't worry about these shadows. If you encounter setbacks and difficulties in life, you will be discouraged and wait for death, then you will lose your firm will and belief. The best way to get rid of the gloomy shadow in your mind is to find the light and get close to it, so as to achieve happiness and success.
Misfortunes and twists and turns in life are inevitable. If you think from another angle, everything will be different Just as we see two sides of a leaf, the side that absorbs sunlight will make you feel full of vitality, and the side that faces away from sunlight will make you feel lifeless.
Only when people have experienced rich social life experience can they understand that there are laughter and tears, wealth and poverty, beauty and ugliness in this world, and what they see depends entirely on their attitude towards life.
When we open our palms, we will find that the palms facing upwards are full of bright sunshine.
Light and shadow produce beautiful flowers.
A coin has two sides; Roses have beautiful petals, but they also have swaying shadows; Since there is sunshine, there will be a cool night; Since there is extremely cold winter, there will be plum blossoms in full bloom. As Shelley wrote: If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
Tolstoy said: "All the changes, charms and beauty in life are made up of light and shadow." That kind of beauty, that kind of charm blooms between light and shadow.
I can't forget the ice lotus, Romeo and Juliet blooming in the barren land. Love is a bright petal growing on the edge of a cliff. If you want to pick it, you must be brave and have no regrets. Romeo and Juliet gave their lives for the beauty and sweetness of love. That shadow is so sad, feud and hostility bury the flame of love. Only the struggle of death can dispel the hatred of the family Why does Shakespeare shine so far? Because it permeates the rational judgment of survival or destruction. Light and shadow appear from time to time to see if they show beautiful charm.
German poet Schiller said: "True love is desperate!" Do bright fires have to illuminate shadows to show the infinity of life? God said, yes.
Beautiful, living in the branches of light and shadow, so Baodai was brewed, and the lights of the market in the sky were brewed.
When we saw the sinking of Titanic, we also saw the love of life and death between Jack and Rose, and the kindness and light that let women and children go first. When we saw the light of Martin Luther King's waving speech "I Have a Dream", we also saw the shadow of an evil bullet penetrating the black head; When we saw Marx shouting for the world and the light, and saw his little daughter die, he didn't have two catties to bury her, but it didn't affect Marx's persistent will at all. This is the dialectics of light and shadow.
As Marx said, "One should learn to walk and wrestle. Only by wrestling can one learn to walk." On the road of life, there should be a bright pursuit, accompanied by loneliness, loneliness, trauma and pain. What do we do is to overcome the shadow. Or was it defeated by the shadow? This is a life choice.
Suddenly I remembered what Zhang Wei said: "A real writer should be a sailor by nature. This reminds us of Melville, the author of Moby Dick, and Mark Twain who fought on the Mississippi River. Both of them have been sailors and struggled in the torrent of life all their lives. Long wandering, boundless ocean or long river, underwater sound, surging, struggling to survive. " The beauty of life will always blend in the light and shadow, which are inseparable.
A cat that can catch mice is not a good cat.
Author: Rufu
Since the concept of "no matter white cats or black cats, catching mice is a good cat" was stolen, the debate between white cats and black cats has never stopped. The simple cat-mouse relationship suddenly became unusual when a fish was caught in the middle, and the turbid water became more and more complicated with time.
Since becoming a police chief, Black Cat has been conscientious, hard-working and selfless. He is a worthy model worker. During his tenure, voles dare not haunt, live in fear every day, dare not look up when walking, and dare not speak loudly. Therefore, the granary is safe and sound, and every household can open its doors day and night. I don't know how many years later, the collective granary disappeared, and many small granaries were added. Together with strong iron gates and fences, the big locks were particularly conspicuous. The vole is also uncharacteristic, wearing a suit and tie, smoking a cigarette, holding a famous wine, and swaggering in the middle of the road, with the sound of leather shoes deliberately ringing.
"ah! Bold thief, where did you steal cigarettes and wine? Still so crazy. " The black cat opened its eyes and shouted.
The vole was stunned, then smiled and said, "Silly black cat, who do you think you are?" ! I have money. I drink and smoke every day. Look at your shabby appearance, people have contracted to households, and there is no granary for you to watch. Be careful of your job, and don't forget to ask me then! "
The black cat was furious and said, "I'll shoot you first!" " "Then we have to do this.
"Stop it!" Three white cats came to comfort the vole and said to the black cat, "Don't be rude. If you don't eat fish well, why catch mice? " Mr. Wall is our great hero and our big taxpayer. As soon as he invested, our economy went up. "
"He, he, he is a thief!" Black cats can hardly talk.
"What time is it?" The white cat said, "Now the thief-free world is full of laborers. Emancipating our minds and changing our concepts have also changed our mode of production. You see, most of the grain fields are planted with high-rise buildings instead of grain, and farmers have improved their jobs instead of farming in cities. We eat fish instead of mice. It's time for you to change careers! Cats that can catch mice now are not good cats! "
The black cat asked strangely, "What do people eat if they don't grow food? Isn't fishing our strong point? "
The white cat proudly said, "Look, look, you can't keep your head open! If you don't grow food, the price of food is high and it sells well. Because buildings make more money, planting buildings is more economical than growing grain, and our consumption index has gone up. Also, although we don't eat food, we can use food as capital in exchange for farmers' fish. If they want to eat, they have to listen to us. You see, we have created the most spectacular army of migrant workers in the world, and we have created the second largest gross national product in the world. Look at those migrant workers, they have all become new citizens, and their per capita income has reached a well-off level and they are happy. "
The black cat gnashed her teeth and turned away angrily. The white cat quickly bowed to the vole and said, "Mr. vole, don't be angry." This boy is ungrateful. Then we will impeach him and let him go. "
The Spring Festival is coming, migrant workers go home with big bags on their backs, some from coal mines, some from brick kilns, and some … as thin as firewood and as black as a black cat. When they see a black cat unhappy, they will ask why. After listening to the story told by the black cat, the migrant workers comforted the black cat and said, "Whether you are the director of the police station or not, in our hearts, you will always be a good director of the police station. Although you are black, your heart is white. Although they are white, their hearts are black! "
Cats that eat mice are not good cats.
Zhang
A group of cats are preparing to eat fish at the dining table, and there are mice peeping in the corner. One of them jumped down from the stool to catch mice and was laughed at by other cats.
Such cartoons are actually of little significance. The greatest advantage of this cartoon is that the author called Wang Duo to become famous. I doubt with the greatest goodwill whether the proposer of this year's college entrance examination composition has accepted the bribe from teacher Wang Duo. It doesn't really matter to me. What's important is that as a college entrance examination candidate, I have to say that I'm worried about assigning new words. I have to moan and make up some so-called feelings of being abused.
Let's make a long story short and get to the point. I have something to say about whether cats should eat fish or mice.
First of all, eating mice is neither hygienic nor delicious, but eating fish is clean and delicious, and it also has many advantages such as invigorating qi and spleen, clearing away heat and detoxifying. Our primary school textbooks have learned Fan Zhongyan's "People come and go on the river, but they love the beauty of perch", and our middle school textbooks have also learned Mao Zedong's "Drink Changsha water and eat Wuchang fish". I have never seen any celebrity write an article praising mice for their delicious taste, so eating fish is definitely better than eating mice; Moreover, in case the mouse is unfortunate enough to take rat poison or be infected with plague, it will be even more dangerous to eat the mouse. In the famous "hierarchy of needs" theory of American psychologist Maslow, besides physiological needs, it is safety needs, which shows that cats should also pay attention to food safety.
Secondly, eating fish obeys our hearts. Now that our life is good, we should learn to enjoy it, so we don't have to live such a cramped life. We should pursue a life with quality and taste. No one should be bitter, hiding anything. Work when it is time to work, enjoy when it is time to enjoy, relax when it is time to relax, and be happy when it is time to eat. It is true that catching mice is a cat's bounden duty, but it also depends on what occasion, and the occasion is very important. Several old friends who have been away for many years finally get together, but you take out the phone and continue to talk about business. What do you mean? Maybe other people at the table work harder, earn more money and do more business than the callers. Friends get together for dinner in order to relax, decompress and work more efficiently after leaving the table. But if you are busy at this time, you will put the cart before the horse, which will inevitably make people laugh but not generous.
Thirdly, eating more fish and less mice is conducive to alleviating the contradiction between cats and mice and establishing good-neighborly diplomatic relations. Fish are aquatic animals, and the life circles of cats and fish don't overlap much. Eat them, and they can't jump out of the water to eat cats. Mice and cats live under the same roof and are at the bottom of society. It's necessary to destroy him. He's my brother. Can't you look up and see him? Humans are the most insidious and cruel animals, "birds are exhausted, and they are good at hiding; A sly rabbit dies, but a running dog cooks. "Cats are not even as cute as dogs. When rats are eliminated, the end of cats will come, so we should eat more fish and less rats at ordinary times to make cats live with value and dignity.
It is said that a study by the University of Heidelberg in Germany shows that there is a substance called "taurine" in mice, which can enhance the night vision ability of organisms, but cats can't synthesize this substance by themselves, so they can only supplement it by eating mice. That is to say, if cats don't eat mice, their night vision ability will decline and they will lose their ability to move at night for a long time, but this doesn't mean that cats should catch mice with hatred when they have a big meal with friends.
It is true that cats eat mice, but if they choose the wrong time and place, they are not good cats.
Sustainable life
Push open a window, which is an antique carved wooden window. The brown wooden window is covered with Parthenocissus tricuspidata, which is dense and layered. Under the breeze, the green leaves are swaying, like pieces of finely divided dark green jade, with a faint light.
Pushing open the window is a Jiangnan girl wearing cheongsam. The brick wall outside the window is mottled, the courtyard is deep, cherry red, banana green, moss old and quiet.
Beautiful girl, elegant sliding window, bright eyes staring, ivy trees, pavilions and waterside pavilions, what you see is green, and what seeps into your heart is green.
Beautiful people, beautiful scenery, beautiful mood and beautiful living environment are the authentic Jiangnan America. Outside a window, the balcony is misty and rainy, and in a yard, there are four generations of beautiful women living under one roof. A wisp of kitchen smoke is filled with the original fragrance of whole grains, and the joy of playing floats in the clear water of a small river.
Every time I see the title of CCTV's four programs "All over China" quickly launched, this almost fleeting quick picture is sometimes fixed in front of my eyes, sometimes jumping in front of my eyes, sometimes staying in my heart, and sometimes stirring in my heart, which causes me to extrapolate and feel deeply touched.
Indulge in the green mountains and green waters, miss the rural life in the past, young people have no impression, no regrets, old people have memories, no regrets. However, when colorful kaleidoscopes are buckled on their eyelids, they are still complaining about life, and when the ponds and rivers that were originally as clear as mirrors are dry or dirty, they are even more dissatisfied. The impression in their minds will always be how clear the pond water is at the door, how loud the cicadas on the trees are, how many fish, shrimps, turtles and crabs are in the long ditch, and how unusual the puffer fish and swordfish in the Yangtze River are. What they often whisper in their mouths is how green the trees are, how clear the water is, how fresh the taste is ... how honest people are and how simple interpersonal relationships are. ...
From praise to grumbling, from souvenirs to dreams, from the past to the present, all the changes are just that our society is missing a "green" word in the process of rapid development and a touch of green in our colorful life.
In modern life, today's people realize the value of green from anxiety, from complaining and condemning, from drawing lessons from a painful experience. Without green in nature, there will be no vitality, without green in life, there will be no peace, without green in society, there will be no harmony, and without green in the development process, it will deviate from scientific development. Life can be less colorful, but green is indispensable. Green food, green home, green GDP, green classroom, green moral education and green home have become the rarest colors of the times in modern civilization, which are indispensable to both people and nature.
Call for green ideas, mark the times with green marks, and let green ideas penetrate into our minds; Create a green life, let our rivers flow with clear water and let our large and small production lines flow with green products.
Pushing open a door, it is everyone of us who opens the door. As the creator and enjoyment of green life, the world outside our door will be full of green mountains and rivers and feelings all over the world! (Zhou Zhusheng)
It's next door to you
Foshan Gaoming District Memorial Middle School Gao Yong
As the saying goes:100000 buys a house,1000000 buys a neighbor. I feel that being around you can't be measured by money, because with your company, sweetness has always been with me. In my sleep and wandering, I can always hear the flowing water from the source of the gurgling, and I can always feel the warmth of the flowers facing the sea. Books-I like being your neighbor.
I don't know when it started, but my mother put you gently on my pillow. In babbling, you are already my neighbor. I love you, like a hardworking little bee, tirelessly flying around your garden to collect pollen. Fairy tales make me feel beauty and ugliness, truth and falsehood, novels teach me the truth of being a man, and poetry edifies and evokes my beautiful heart.
In memory, Andersen told me that the humble "ugly duckling" turned out to be a beautiful swan; How steel is tempered, Paul? Kochakin's miraculous vitality and steely will make my heart surge; "Robinson Crusoe" watching, watching, I seem to be there, as if I also live on a desert island with Robinson; And "100,000 Why" still inspires me to explore the mysteries of nature. In the neighborhood with you, I always hear my mother laughing: "Good boy, reading this book is helpful for your study." Later, at the Book Festival, I gave a speech on "Children who Sell Time" and won an award. Now I can write the trajectory of my life with a pen like a breeze, thanks to your neighbors.
Wang Guowei said in "The Tales of the World" that the great cause of ancient and modern times, the questioner of the university must go through three realms: "Last night, the west wind withered the green trees. Being alone in a tall building, looking at the horizon. " This first realm is actually the expectation for you, while the second realm is "the belt is getting wider and wider without regrets, which makes people haggard for Iraq." Is the unremitting pursuit of you, looking for him in the crowd, suddenly looking back, that person is in the dim light. The third realm, finally realized the highest realm with you. Each of us may have been looking for the so-called "who am I?" Where is the land I come from? where am I going? "This eternal question, and only you can tell us the real answer. When "but where can I find fragrance among the fallen leaves piled up on the bare hillside", I will choose you as my neighbor, and I will have no regrets. You have achieved my spirit for thousands of years, from Qu Yuan's loyalty of "staying innocent and dying straight", Li Bai's lofty sentiments of "being able to destroy the eyebrows and bow down to the powerful", Fan Zhongyan's mind of "worrying about the world first, and enjoying the world afterwards", Wen Tianxiang's lofty sentiments of "keeping my heart ahead" and Lu Xun's childlike innocence of "I commend Xuanyuan with blood". With you by my side, I feel I am an energetic person.
Being your neighbor is like putting a pot of old wine and holding a cup of fragrant tea in the mountains. Profound places make people think, sad places make people feel dejected, humorous places make people laugh, and sad places make people cry. If you drink a clear spring, if you chew an olive, the lingering fragrance will overflow and surround your heart for three days.
I like moonlit nights best, and the room is brightly lit. On the day when the college entrance examination is not held, I feel a little shaken when I sit at my desk or lean on my pillow sideways and gently open my title page. Sighing as a butterfly, fortunately Cui Zhang will be good, admire Dongpo wine, and admire Mu Qingzhao for boating. Mountain water rings in the ears, and fine chrysanthemum smells in the nose. Cao Fang Liantian, Changting Ancient Road; There are red cherries and green bananas ... facing you, I can choose to give up, but I can't give up my choice. If I choose to live next door, I think I made the right choice.