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Chapter 43

Chapter 2, Section 21 Crossing the Ocean with Life

程武
There is such a Greek myth that Apollo fell in love with Sibyl and told her that no matter how many years, as long as she has dust in her hands, she can live.As time went by, Sybil became emaciated and eventually became empty, but she still wanted to die.The children asked Sybil hanging in the bottle: "What do you want?"

She replied, "I'm going to die."

I think death is not a punishment from God, but a sign of Goddess Fate's love for human beings.We need death just as we need sleep.It is the dark background of death that sets off the splendor of life.Just think, if life is infinite, would we still think her precious?If life is inexhaustible and inexhaustible like air and grains of sand, wouldn't she be as worthless as air and grains of sand?If tomorrow is infinite, why should we toil today?Let's wait until tomorrow to talk about everything.If we wait like this, what can we accomplish?Until the end, we all became Sybils in a bottle, and then maybe we realized that death is precious and life is terrible.

It is because of death that we cherish life so much.Each of us should be an excellent helmsman, sailing the boat of our own life briskly.An excellent helmsman is good at dealing with pain, but in reality, many people drown in the sea because of pain and die prematurely.Pain should be the ballast on the boat of our life, and because of it, our boat can move forward steadily.Excellent helmsmen can also get rid of the temptation of the devil. They look down on material desires and troubles in the world, and pursue the truth.They cherish time like gold, work diligently, and live a rich and effective life.

【Together with you】

Each of us has to work hard every day, busy, running, bumping, exhausting, bleak management, penny-pinching...all for what?life!For our only one life, we hope that we can live a better life than others, we hope that our life will be colorful, and we look forward to the freshness and miracles in our life every day.So we keep working hard, struggling, and pursuing, and everything is just for our unique life experience.

The essence of life is a vast ocean, with reefs, tsunamis, and various accidents in the sea, but no matter how huge the disaster in front of you is, you must carefully paddle through it with your life in your arms.Because one day you will swim to the edge of the sea, and the edge of the sea is the other side of the life you dream of.

(End of this chapter)