Use striving instead of anger

Author: Yun Muxin
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: Many people, when at the lowest point in their lives, tend to complain, suffer, and loudly lament the injustice life has done to them. They linger in this state, unable to extricate themselves, surrounded by tears and feelings of helplessness. In reality, if you think carefully, what is the use of complaining and tormenting yourself? It only increases your own suffering, causing you to fall deeper and into greater despair! In truth, everyone hopes for success and the respect of others, but sometimes you will encounter setbacks, ridicule, and exclusion from others—that is life! Life requires you to face your misfortunes and disappointments, to rise up when at the lowest point in your life, to seek happiness in pain, to choose calm in anger, to dare to let go in obsession, and to learn to forget in disappointment! As the saying goes, replace anger with determination! There are too many things in life that are not worth our (jìaojiu - to calculate or make a fuss). Fairness, perfection, humiliation, hesitation, loss—facing all of these, it is your excessive attachment that makes you lose the joy and happiness that life should bring. Learn to be content, to forget, to let go, to not make a fuss, to replace anger with determination. This is wisdom, and it is also a form of transcendence.