Today, I want to talk about a book I read recently, which has a great influence on me: Tokugawa Ieyasu.
If you are at the tail of youth now, find a job quickly, or face the world alone quickly. Then you will feel lucky to see this book.
Tokugawa Ieyasu is the work of Japanese historical novelist Yamaoka Sōhachi, which is similar to China's Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Therefore, when evaluating Tokugawa Ieyasu, many people always habitually compare China's Romance of the Three Kingdoms. But I think there is really no contrast between the two works. Romance of the Three Kingdoms reveals this "China" culture, and Tokugawa Ieyasu is more suitable for personal growth guide.
This book has many words, more than five million words. It took me two years to finish it, off and on, of course. When I first started reading this book, I didn't really understand it, and I didn't understand it before. My original purpose was to understand Japanese history.
I was at the bottom of my life when I watched it. It was the stage when a boy wanted to leave his family and face the society. I feel stressed every day. I was really depressed, and sometimes I really wanted to give up my life.
Having said that, I don't want to talk about what Tokugawa Ieyasu gave me, but it comforted me.
Tokugawa Ieyasu, the hero, was born in the Japanese Warring States Period. The chaotic background of the times determines that his life is doomed to be full of ups and downs. At that time, Japan was really full of drama, with big names fighting each other and competing for territory. The powerful name wants to conquer the whole of Japan, and the contest between the great powers makes the declining Tokugawa family powerless to fight back.
So the declining Okazaki (the hometown of Tokugawa Ieyasu) had to listen to other people's arrangements. Therefore, Tokugawa Ieyasu has lived as a hostage in other countries since childhood. Fortunately, in that dark childhood, he got the help of the nobles and constantly educated and trained him. What often appears in tireless teaching is: learn to wait.
When I finished reading the previous Tokugawa Ieyasu with tears in my eyes (there are fourteen because of a * * *), I think I chose a good book. It taught me that the most important thing for a boy to be a responsible man is to learn to wait and endure.
In this waiting process, you should constantly change yourself in order to wait for the result. Down-to-earth, change the status quo bit by bit, so that the status quo that you are not satisfied with is constantly changing. In the end, we will realize our ideal.
Maybe the process is long, tortuous, boring and hard, but you must learn to wait.