Chapter 347: 440 chapters, a person who built a 'dugout canoe

440 chapters, a person who built a 'dugout canoe'

44o chapters, a person who built a 'dugout canoe'

——A red apricot branch sticking out of the wall

A person's life is one's own. How I live my life is my own affair; how others judge is their affair, and I should not be bothered by their judgments. This statement is somewhat excessive and extreme.

A person should be social, and their actions in life should also be social. This statement is too awkward and empty.

Still, let's talk about something concrete———

We admire a person mainly for admiring a certain spirit. Life mainly relies on spirit for support. That Lu Binsun has a very stubborn temperament. He said: My temperament is such that, when I undertake something, I never let go if I do not succeed.

This is a kind of spirit: never give up halfway, persist in one's original choice; he who does not reach the Great Wall is not a true man!

Lu Binsun, alone, drifted onto a deserted island; for every task he faced, everything before him was difficult. Wanting to start a business made it even more difficult, because besides himself, there was only himself; when encountering problems, he could only consult himself. This is one difficulty. But he was not afraid of this difficulty; he wanted to reclaim land and farm on the island, but unfortunately he had no tools, no tools, so he made his own tools; furthermore he lacked experience in reclaiming and farming on a deserted island, so lacking experience, he summarized experience from failure. Thus, for everything he did, everything before him was difficulty. Each thing he did required great effort and a long time before he could succeed. Spending a long time, he just spent a long time. Because he spent his time on meaningful things, he was cherishing time, not wasting it. For example, Lu Binsun on the deserted island wanted to make a plank for a boat; on land, with tools, a person could finish it in an hour or less; but Lu Binsun needed forty-two days. This is unimaginable for ordinary people. After forty-two days, that plank for boat-building was still not finished.

But Lu Binsun was not disappointed. Because Lu Binsun had never been disappointed. In many endeavors he wasted his labor for nothing and did not succeed; thus he had never been discouraged.

When he failed, he would from the beginning sum up the experience of failure and start anew. He had never halted his steps due to failure.

This is Lu Binsun———

A person who does not fear failure, a person who often fails, a person who rises from failure, a person who achieves success from failure.

He, Lu Binsun. It took him five or six months to build a dugout canoe. But after it was built, to move this dugout to the seaside would take twelve years, so he had to abandon it. This is also incomprehensible to ordinary people: beforehand, why didn't Lu Binsun consider this and thus waste five or six months of time and effort?

This may be a kind of helplessness in life. Think about many things in our lives, many people—aren't they also wasting time and life in vain? Although Lu Binsun could build a dugout canoe in five or six months, no matter how you say it, he ultimately accomplished something.

Being able to accomplish something in a lifetime should be remarkable. As for us (we should remove the 'I'), can we in this lifetime build a 'dugout canoe'?

In this world, few people can build a dugout canoe that belongs to themselves. It's not that we lack the ability or knowledge to build one; rather, we are unwilling to do so. Because we have never planned to independently accomplish something on our own. Instead we forever follow behind others, walk the paths they have walked, repeat their footprints. Being able to sit on someone else's 'boat'—isn't that also delightful? Why should we build our own 'boat'? This is our mindset: forever rely on others, forever depend on others; we forever belong to others. But that Zhong Wei Yun and Lu Binsun are different from us: they must have their own selves, they must live out their own appearance, they must build their own 'dugout canoe'.

Perhaps some friends dislike my repetition? My speech certainly has meaning in repetition: a friendly reminder to friends to, as much as possible, use their own abilities and conditions to build their own 'dugout canoe'. Am I not meaninglessly repeating? Why do I repeat myself? Please also do not care about how others speak; care about yourself. Walk your own path, live out your own appearance.

I repeat what others have said tens of millions of times, then repeat it once more: What is the greatest happiness in life? This is definitely a topic so old it cannot get older, and also a topic that children can utter.

But who has found a standard answer for this topic? Because in the world, each person is an answer.

Your answer, I do not endorse; my answer, you will not plagiarize. But my answer does not need others to plagiarize; your answer, I however greatly appreciate.

I appreciate, but that does not mean I want to plagiarize. Like that Lu Binsun, everyone cannot imitate him: all going overseas to create the world—then who would tend to our homeland?

But Lu Binsun's spirit, for everyone, forever has practical significance: not fearing failure, not fearing life's storms, forging ahead, facing life head-on, building one's own 'dugout canoe' to build one's own brand, living out one's own style……

This indeed is a life's '?'..................................

(Heart with the disaster area, emotion with the disaster area: wish peace, courage, confidence, strength to accompany the people of the disaster area! To accompany!)