Factual argument
The wind burns in the fire.
Young women workers in the 1950s saw that burning alcohol was about to flow to sodium metal. If sodium metal catches fire and explodes, not only will the whole factory be lost, but also the lives of nearby residents and workers' brothers and sisters will be seriously threatened, which will bring great disasters to countless happy families. For the sake of his own happiness, Xiang threw himself into the fire, blocked the burning alcohol with his own body, won precious time for fire fighting, prevented a huge disaster and saved many happy families. However, she died of her injuries, but Xiang lived in the fire forever. People praised her as "the wind in the fire".
The happiness of the people is above everything else.
Lei Feng wrote in his diary: "It is the luckiest thing to put revolutionary interests first and dedicate everything to the cause of the party." He thinks of the interests of people everywhere. On holidays, he automatically goes to the station to serve passengers; He saved money by scrimping and saving, and helped the people in the disaster area and his comrades in trouble. When he passed by the construction site to see a doctor, he took the initiative to participate in the construction site labor; Wherever he goes, he does good deeds. He believes that life is meaningful and true happiness.
Theoretical demonstration
Happiness is that people find the meaning of life. -[Russia] Bondarev's "Life Stage"
The true happiness of mankind lies in science and labor. -[former Soviet Union] Gorky's "Rehearsal"
If one day, I can contribute to our public interests, I will consider myself the happiest person. -[Russia] Nikolai Nikolai Gogol
There are three indispensable factors for a happy life: first, there is hope. Second, there is something to do. The third is being able to love others.
There is hope.
Alexander the Great once gave a big gift to show his generosity. He gave A a lot of money, a province to B and a senior official to C. His friend listened and said to him, "If you go on like this, you will be penniless." Alexander replied, "I will never be poor." I left myself the greatest gift. " All I have left is my hope. "If a person only lives in memories and loses hope, his life has already begun to end. Memories cannot inspire us to live vigorously. Memories can only make us escape, just like prisoners escaping from prison.
Have something to do.
An old English woman, when she was seriously ill and knew that her days were numbered, wrote the following poem: Don't pity me now, never pity me, I will never work again, never, never again. Many people have been unemployed or have nothing to do and feel that life is slow and empty. Anyone who has had this experience will know that having a job is not misfortune, but a kind of happiness.
Can love others.
The poet Bai Langning once wrote: "He looked at her and she smiled back, and life suddenly woke up." With the love in life, we will become radiant, humble and energetic, and new hopes will emerge, as if there are thousands of things waiting for us to complete in Qian Qian. With love, life has spring and the world has become colorful.
The perfect prayer should be: "Lord, please help me to have the strength to help others."
Eating sugar for the first time
(Sweet feeling is happiness)
A Tibetan cadre named Tashi Dawa asked others to guess what was the happiest moment in his life, but no one could guess. He said, "That was the first time I ate fruit candy."
It was the day of 1950 in early spring. Tashi Dawa, then a serf, was grazing and met a young team. Each of them has a dazzling red five-star on his hat. He was very scared, but the soldiers were very friendly. A soldier his age gave him a fruit candy. This is an ordinary sugar. He didn't know what it was, but the soldier drew a piece of paper and put it in his mouth to eat. He dared not eat it, so he held it in his arms.
After what happened, I dare not say anything, because the serf owner knew to gouge out his eyes and cut his tongue. In the dead of night, he secretly took out this piece of fruit candy, peeled off the paper and put it on his mouth and licked it gently. God, a feeling I have never experienced spreads all over my body, and there are such wonderful things in the world. He licked it again, almost suspecting that he was dreaming. He cherished it, took it out and licked it at a certain time, and it took him a long time to finish eating the sugar.
Tashi Dawa, who later became a senior cadre in Xizang Autonomous Region, didn't know how much sugar he ate or how proud he was, but only this time he ate sugar, which made him feel the deepest and happiest.
Lin Juemin's farewell letter.
Happiness for the whole world is the greatest happiness.
Lin Juemin is one of the seventy-two martyrs in Huanghuagang. He comes from a rich family. In order to overthrow the feudal rule of the Qing Dynasty, he abandoned his wife and children, left a happy family and joined the revolution. For the sake of national prosperity and national rejuvenation, he participated in the Guangzhou Uprising led by Sun Yat-sen. Unfortunately, he was shot and injured when attacking the Governor's Office, and was arrested, and finally died.
Lin Juemin made full preparations for sacrifice before the uprising. Three nights before the attack on the governor's office, he wrote a farewell letter to his father and his wife respectively. The letter to my father wrote: "My son is dead, but I am tired of the hardships of adults. My sister-in-law lacks food and clothing and ears. However, it is of great benefit to my compatriots all over the country. " The letter to his wife wrote: "Since I met you, I have been wishing all lovers in the world all shall be well. However, there are red clouds everywhere, and the streets are full of wolves and dogs. How many can be satisfied? ..... I love you and help the whole world to love what they love, so I dare to die before you, regardless of you. You care about my heart, and when you cry, you care about the world. You should also be willing to sacrifice your and my welfare for the happiness of the world. " Lin Juemin wrote this letter with deep attachment to his beloved wife. From this, we can see the noble feelings of a revolutionary, and sacrificing personal happiness for the happiness of the world is the greatest happiness.
Du Lang seeks happiness.
Happiness exists in every detail of life.
In our world, the most elusive thing is the deliberate pursuit of happiness. American writer William? Du Lang once described how he sought happiness. He first sought happiness from knowledge and got only disillusionment; Looking for it from travel, all you get is fatigue; Looking for wealth, all you get is struggle and sorrow; Looking for it from writing, all you get is fatigue. One day, however, he came out of the station and saw a young woman sitting in a car with a sleeping baby in her arms. A middle-aged man got off the train and went straight to the carriage. He kissed his wife and kissed the baby gently-for fear of waking him up. Then the family drove away. At this moment, Du Lang was surprised to find out what true happiness is. He breathed a sigh of relief happily and understood that every normal activity in life carries some kind of happiness.
Every detail of life actually carries some kind of happiness. That shallow kiss contains her husband's care and her father's love, but this small detail is full of the most detailed interpretation of human feelings. Can you say that your wife was unhappy when she accepted that kiss? Can you say that the baby doesn't feel taken care of? That's what happiness is called. You don't need any magic formula, just your emotional input. Give a sleeping child a loose quilt, and pulling the quilt hand is the way to summon happiness; Knocking on the tired lover's back, up and down, elastic fist is the way to summon happiness; Tell an old joke to my parents who are getting old quietly. Smooth airflow is the most powerful way to summon happiness. When you use these methods to summon happiness, aren't you the happy person in the world at this moment?
There is happiness when there is love.
(Yan Ni's view of happiness)
The love between Marx and his wife Yan Ni is an enduring story. Yan Ni is a great woman. For love, she left a rich family and lived a poor life with Marx. During his exile in London, his family lived on potatoes for several weeks. There is no firewood to make a fire in severe winter, and there is no money to call a doctor when you are sick. He can't afford the rent, and his iron bed, bedding and clothes, and even his daughter's toys and children's bassinets are mortgaged. Marx wrote Critique of Political Economy, but he didn't have the postage to send the manuscript to Berlin. Children have to drop out of school because they can't afford tuition. The child died of illness and had no money to buy a coffin for burial ... In the face of such a bad day, Yan Ni didn't complain or leave. On the contrary, she is always full of confidence in life because there is love in her life. She once proudly said, "The day when I sat in Carl's room and copied his scribbled articles was the happiest moment in my life."
Xu Xiake's Adventure Career
(Happiness is in the process of struggle)
1586 (in the 14th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty), a little boy was born in Jiangyin County, Jiangsu Province. He is a famous traveler and geographer Xu Xiake in the history of China.
From the age of twenty-two, Xu Xiake began a hard journey and an adventurous life until one year before his death. For more than 30 years, he braved difficulties and obstacles, waded through mountains and rivers, slept in the wind, and traveled to Putuo, Zhejiang in the east, Hebei in the north, Fujian and Guangdong in the south, the top of Huashan in the northwest, and Yunnan and Guizhou in the southwest, covering 16 provinces at that time. Although he was robbed three times and deprived of food four times, he almost lost his life, but Xu Xiake never regretted it. He made a comprehensive and systematic investigation on the topography, landform, hydrology, climate and vegetation where he went. Years of hard practice have finally yielded fruitful results. Xu Xiake's Travels enjoys a lofty position in the history of world science and technology with its vivid style.
1636, when Xu Xiake was preparing to March to the southwest, he was discouraged because he was over half a year old, but he said decisively: "I have a hoe on my shoulder. Where can't you bury bones? " Xu Xiake devoted his life to geographical research. In his later years, he still felt a little sorry. He thought that he could not travel all over the mountains and rivers of the motherland, not to Kunlun Mountain, but to more remote places to further explore the mysteries of nature. Perhaps those who dissuade him will never understand why he is so persistent because field trips are so difficult and dangerous. Why doesn't he know how to enjoy life Only Xu Xiake knows that his ideal is lifelong struggle, and the process of struggle is the process of enjoying happiness.
Confessions of corrupt officials
Greed is the beginning of misfortune.
Happiness is created by hard-working hands. If you want something for nothing, you will only go to the abyss of evil, so greed is often the starting point of misfortune. Look at the confessions of these two corrupt officials:
Xu Bingsong (former vice chairman of the People's Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, accepting bribes of 550,000 yuan, sentenced to life imprisonment in August,1999);
In the 1970s and 1980s, I lived a poor life and worked as hard as ordinary people. With the deepening of reform and the widening of distribution gap, my psychology is becoming more and more unbalanced. Being in a leading position and in power will inevitably lead to a scene of reciprocal exchange, and the ideological defense line will gradually collapse. From resisting and refusing, it turned into escaping, and then by luck, I gradually felt at ease and completely lost my resistance.
Zhong (former president of China Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Fujian Branch, accepting bribes equivalent to RMB 2.05 million, the source of huge property of RMB 49 1.48 million was unknown, and he was sentenced to death in June 2000);
Being in the financial system, I have witnessed some people taking advantage of the transformation from planned economy to market economy to seize valuable resources such as land, labor and means of production and get rich quickly. I also see that others have accumulated huge wealth by relying on relationships in the "dual track system" of means of production, which has shaken my political confidence and lost my direction in life. I want to quit my old job gradually and start my own business. Many private business owners like me. I took money from several of them and ended up in prison.
Carnegie's charity work
/kloc-Andrew, the American "steel king" in the 0/9 th century? Carnegie controlled a quarter of the national steel production in 1892, with an annual profit of more than 20 million dollars. From 65438 to 0900, his company's annual income was as high as 40 million dollars. This year, he published a monograph "The Gospel of Wealth", which systematically put forward the idea of establishing charity. Moreover, he also practiced and became the spokesman for promoting the western charity concept. Since 189 1 donated a concert hall to new york, Carnegie has continuously donated great halls, concert halls, art galleries, museums and libraries to various places. In terms of library construction alone, Carnegie invested120,000 US dollars in 16 and set up 3,500 libraries, benefiting people from all walks of life. 1895, he donated money to establish Carnegie Pittsburgh College, 1902, Carnegie Washington College, 1903, The Hague Peace Building, 1904, American Heroes Fund, 1905, Retirement Fund for Senior Professors,/
Carnegie got rich benefits from society and owned huge assets, but he was not satisfied because it was not a happy life. Only when he returns these wealth to society and makes contributions to society, is he the happiest.
Thinking about happiness
First, the composition material
China Youth Daily conducted online surveys on the relationship between happiness and house on June 5438+0 and 10/9, 2009, respectively. According to the survey, 80% of the respondents in China think that happiness has something to do with house, but the opinions of Japanese netizens are quite different. About 90% of Japanese netizens think that happiness has nothing to do with the house.
2. A philosopher accidentally fell into the water and was rescued ashore. The first thing he said was: how happy breathing is. Living is happiness, but why do so many people ruin themselves for "so-called happiness"?
Some people think that the shallowest happiness in life is brought by desire and material, and the life of desire and material can never be satisfied.
Second, the idea of inspiration.
Happiness is a feeling, which does not depend on people's living conditions, but on people's mentality.
After all, happiness is a personal subjective experience, so it is very difficult to evaluate happiness. There are many happiness evaluation index systems at home and abroad, such as "happiness index" in France and "national happiness index system" in Britain, and there are also "Jiangyin happiness comprehensive evaluation index system" and other evaluation systems in China. But there is no recognized happiness evaluation system at present.
Many studies on happiness show that among the most important variables affecting personal happiness, the top three are employment, marriage and education. The government's influence on personal marital status may be limited, but it is directly related to employment and education. Other factors that affect personal happiness, such as safety, environment, medical care and cultural life, are also closely related to government governance.
Happiness is a kind of inner satisfaction caused by the realization or approach of ideal. Happiness includes not only material life, but also spiritual life; Individual happiness depends on collective happiness, and collective happiness is higher than individual happiness; Happiness lies not only in enjoyment, but mainly in labor and creation.
If you want happiness, you must pursue and struggle.
There is a middle-aged postman in a small village. Since he just turned 20, he has traveled 50 kilometers every day, sending sad and happy stories to residents' homes day after day. In this way, twenty years passed quickly, and people and things changed several times. It's just that the road from the post office to the village has never been half a year, only flying dust. "How long will this desolate road take?" He always feels a little sorry at the thought of riding a bike all his life on this dusty road without flowers and trees. One day, when he was about to go back after delivering the letter, he happened to pass by a flower shop. "Yes, that's it!"
He went into the flower shop and bought a handful of wild flower seeds. From the next day, he took these seeds and spread them on the road.
In this way, after a day, two days, a month, two months ... he kept spreading the seeds of wild flowers.
Not long after, the desolate road that has been going back and forth for 20 years has actually opened many red and yellow flowers; Summer flowers bloom in summer, autumn flowers bloom in autumn, and flowers bloom in four seasons, never stopping.
Seeds and flowers make people in the village happier than any mail sent by the postman all his life.
On the road full of petals instead of dust, the postman whistling and riding a bicycle is no longer a lonely postman or a sad postman.
Life is like a blink of an eye, time flies, why not leave some good things for future generations to enjoy the cool?
2. A young man wanted to know the secret of "happiness", so he crossed Qian Shan and the desert without hesitation, and finally came to the beautiful castle where the wise old man lived.
When the young man saw the old man, he immediately told his purpose. The old man told the young man to pick up the spoon, hold two drops of oil and walk around the castle. He told the young people not to miss a drop of oil. When the young man came back, the old man saw that there was not a drop of oil. However, he asked the young people what they saw. Young people don't remember anything.
The old man asked him to walk again, this time paying attention to everything in the castle. When the young man came back, he reported everything in detail, but there was not a drop of oil in the spoon. The wise old man then said to him, "The real happiness lies in that you can see the whole world, but you will never forget the two drops of oil in your hand."
This is a story with profound philosophy of life. Although the value of "two drops of oil" is small, it is what we have: family, friends, family, country, spiritual pursuit and so on.
Russell, the most influential British thinker in the 20th century, came to Sichuan, China in the early 1920s.
It was summer, and the weather in Sichuan was very sultry. Russell and several people accompanying him went to Emei Mountain in a bamboo sedan chair carried by them. The mountain road is steep and steep, and several porters are so tired that they are sweating. As a thinker and writer, Russell, in this case, has no mood to see the scenery of Emei Mountain, but to think about the mood of several bearers. He thought that the bearers must hate their sedan chairs. In such hot weather, they had to carry them up the mountain. They may even wonder, why did they come from a sedan chair instead of a sedan chair?
While Russell was thinking, he came to a small platform halfway up the mountain, and the people with him stopped the bearers to have a rest. Russell got off the bamboo sedan chair and carefully observed the expression of the bearers, trying to comfort the hard bearers.
However, when he saw the bearers sitting together, taking out their pipes, talking and laughing and telling happy things, he didn't mean to blame the weather and the people in the sedan chair, nor did he mean to feel miserable for his fate. They also told Russell an interesting joke about his hometown and gave the great philosopher a difficult problem: "Can you draw with 1 1 and write the names of two China people?" Russell admitted that he couldn't. The sedan chair bearer smiled and said the answer: "Wang Yi, Wang Er." During the conversation, they laughed happily from time to time. Russell suddenly felt a little ashamed and remorse. Why should I comfort them? Why should I think they are unhappy?
Later, Russell told this story in his works. Moreover, he came to a famous outlook on life: it is wrong to look at the happiness of others with self-righteous eyes.
When Tan Dun, a famous musician, first arrived in the United States, life was very difficult. In order to earn money, he had to play the violin in the street. Fortunately, Tan Dun met a black pianist, and together they got a good place to make the most money-the door of a commercial bank, where people are busy and very busy.
After a period of time, after Tan Dun made a lot of money as an artist, he bid farewell to the black piano teacher, because he wanted to enter the university for further study, learn from the teachers in the music school and learn from each other with students with superb piano skills ... So, Tan Dun devoted all his time and spirit to improving his musical literacy and piano skills. ...
Ten years later, Tan Dun once passed by a commercial bank and found that his old friend, the black pianist, was still playing in the "most profitable place". His expression was as good as ever, with pride, satisfaction and intoxication on his face. Seeing Tan Dun suddenly appear, the black pianist stopped playing happily and said enthusiastically, "Brother! Long time no see! Where are you playing the piano now? "
Tan Dun answered the name of a famous concert hall, and the black pianist asked, "Is the front of that concert hall also a good venue and easy to make money?"
"Fortunately, business is not bad!" Tan Dun didn't say, just simply said.
Black people don't know that ten years later, Tan Dun has become an internationally renowned musician. He is often invited to perform in famous concert halls, not just playing the piano at the door!
People should know how to get out in time and leave the place that seems to be the most profitable, but no longer makes progress; People must summon up courage and keep learning in order to reach the peak of their lives again! Life is a can, and courage is a can opener. Only by plucking up the courage to pick up the can opener can we open the can of life and taste the sweet taste inside!