Yu Minhong: Breaking Free from the Bondage of Life

In fact, there are certain things that bind us throughout our lives, whether it is a life of poverty or social status, whether it is a traditional custom or the letter of the law. The struggle of life is a beautiful dance in the process of bondage. Life without bondage is frivolous and weightless, and the bondage of life and the effort to break free from bondage makes our life heavy and beautiful.

Everyone longs for life to be able to run like sea water without obstacles to flow, and the blue sky; everyone longs for life like the wind from the sky to float freely, in addition to take away the white clouds, there is no trace of attachment. No one wants his or her life to be bound, just as no animal wants to be kept in a cage. All human life is to break free from some kind of bondage and the process of effort, this process makes life colorful, full of opportunities, chewing failure, taste success.

The first thing people do once they become self-aware is to fight against bondage. From the age of eleven, two years old, teenagers generally have a few years of very strong rebellious period, this period of time, often regardless of the parents or teachers are right or wrong, and they are against them. This phenomenon is a concrete manifestation of life's desire to break free. It can be said that the first struggle of teenagers against their parents is the prelude to a lifelong struggle against all kinds of constraints. Animals through the fight to declare their own power, to determine their own position in the group; human wisdom and patience to prove their own ability, and ultimately get rid of the social bondage into the free state, although this free state may only be a kind of illusion, but the struggle to enter the state of the struggle process just gives life a very rich meaning.

It is not so much a matter of working hard for the ideal as it is a matter of working hard to get out of some kind of bondage. If we are born in a poor family, we may have only one purpose for all our efforts, which is to get rid of poverty. This is because poverty brings us too many constraints, and in poverty life is not flaunted or respected. Therefore, people in poverty are often more capable of self-improvement because they have enough motivation behind them: they want to live a good life like city dwellers (even though city dwellers do not necessarily live a good life), and they want to eat more and walk farther like city dwellers. These simplest of ideals turn out to be precisely the most enduring desperation.

When people get out of poverty, they immediately strive for their social status, because the level of social status is directly related to one's dignity. A person with a low social status is like the tail wolf in a pack of wolves, who can only ever eat the last bite of meat, never get the best chance, and not even get the favor of the she-wolf. The pathetic state of low social status is enough to encourage any man and woman to use all their strength and means to get rid of their humility. Low social status is a very real pain, when those from the bottom of the social college students to see the family background of the students always have someone in front of the back, by the girls before and after the chase, no matter how much heart and lungs will be chest tightening. Under this feeling, those who understand that social status cannot be achieved overnight will strive for improvement of social status with continuous patient efforts (sometimes this is a lifelong endeavor), while those who have no patience will take dangerous actions to achieve their goal by flattering and cheating. In the face of social status, people with vanity and greed are especially dangerous. A vain person is prone to cut short his happiness for the sake of face, while a greedy person is very likely to cut short his life for the sake of his status, because status, like money, does not have any satisfactory measure and can only be felt with the heart, and a person who doesn't know to stop when faced with the temptation of status and power is very prone to enter the dangerous place. But no matter what, most people's lifelong struggle process, is to improve their own social status of the process.

When there is a certain social status, people began to ask for spiritual liberation, freedom of mind, hope to get rid of social restrictions on their own mind and spirit, which is a higher level of life struggle (of course, some of the great people can leap over the poverty and social status barriers directly into the pursuit of spiritual liberation of the realm). The saying that all men are created equal expresses not only a question of social status, but also a question of spiritual freedom, and the essence of the demand for democracy is to get rid of ideological constraints and obtain spiritual equality. When we find that many of the fetters of the real world are unbreakable, we hope that our minds will be liberated, and this process of breaking free from the various fetters of the mind is precisely the process by which great literary and philosophical ideas are produced. The main purpose of literary and philosophical thinking is to liberate one's emotions and at the same time to gain a path to happiness and freedom.

If the struggle for life of the average person is enough to move people, then the success of another kind of people is even more shocking, that is, free from the shackles of physical disability and create a miracle, because they often do even the normal people can not do things. Helen Keller grew up deaf and blind, but finally wrote a beautiful text that trembles; Beethoven composed the Ninth Symphony after deafness, Stephen Hawking sat in a wheelchair through the movement of the fingers to write a "brief history of time", Sima Qian in the palace after suffering the "Records of the Grand Historian"; none of these people's great achievements is not in the physical disability after the boundaries of the release of their own strong spiritual power. There are also those deaf and mute girls in China who danced the Thousand Hands Guanyin, every movement touches people's nerves for beauty. I once bumped into a Zhejiang student called Zuo Li, from childhood the ear is completely deaf, to this day the world is still silent to him, but he has been through his own efforts to read to the university, and has been a good student, he can read the teacher's lips to know what the teacher is talking about, he wrote out the text fluent and fluent, rich in ideas; and now he is also ready to go to the best foreign universities to go! to study, shifting from lip-reading Chinese to lip-reading English. We have wonderful hearing people have not been able to understand the English language to learn well, in the face of Zuo Li such students, we have nothing to complain about, in addition to efforts?