Be a Strong Woman: Carnegie's Book of Spiritual Growth for Women

Chapter 30 Gratitude and Cherishing Blessings, Living Gently with the World (2)
The beggar said helplessly: "Happiness is the bowl of water in your hand at this moment."

In fact, happiness is in the present.Only the happiness strung together one by one now is the happiness of a lifetime.

A traveler was walking in the desert when suddenly a pack of hungry wolves appeared behind him.He was taken aback and ran wildly.When the hungry wolf was about to catch up with him, he saw a well in front of him with an unknown depth, and jumped down desperately.Unexpectedly, not only was there no water in the well, but there were also many poisonous snakes. When they saw food being delivered to their door, they raised their heads and stuck out their tongues, waiting for something.Panicked, he reached out his hands indiscriminately to grab something that could save his life. Unexpectedly, God followed his wishes and caught him a small tree protruding horizontally from the middle of the well, stabilizing him in mid-air.So there are hungry wolves above and poisonous snakes below, but although the man is caught in a dilemma, he is still safe for the time being.Just when he breathed a sigh of relief, a strange noise entered his ears.He followed the sound, and suddenly his soul flew away—a group of big mice were biting the root of the tree with their sharp teeth, and the time of this life-saving tree was numbered.At this moment of life and death, he saw a drop of honey on the leaf in front of him.So he forgot about the hungry wolf above, the poisonous snake below, and the small tree about to be bitten off by the mice, closed his eyes, stuck out his tongue, and tasted the drop of honey wholeheartedly.

When I read this story for the first time, I felt that the significance of this story is to let everyone realize "enjoy every moment of life".However, if you think about it carefully, from another more positive level, in life and work, a person will encounter many difficulties.Some difficulties belong to the past, and some difficulties belong to the future. Your current task is to solve every problem that can be solved now and strive for every opportunity you can get now.

Cherish every day, enjoy the enrichment of the moment, enjoy the process of doing everything well, feel the happiness of your existing life quietly, and grasp the way, direction, and direction of your life from the present mind. You can hold happiness firmly in your hands.

taste happiness, enjoy happiness

Some women always feel that they are unhappy, this is because they don't know how to enjoy happiness when they are happy, and they don't know how to relish happiness when they are suffering.Happiness is the crystallization of hard work, bravery and wisdom, and it is a feeling of the soul.

How do we enjoy happiness?When happiness comes, we should enjoy every minute with passion, let it burn into a light blue flame like pure alcohol, without leaving a trace of dross.When adversity comes, we should often reminisce about the happy time before, so that our mood will become happier, and we will be more optimistic in the face of adversity, so that we can better welcome the next happiness.Although we cannot make our daily life full of happiness, as long as we grasp happiness more actively, we may have more happiness.

Time is always running, we should try our best to make every day have the best harvest.Remember, don't spend your life waiting.After the age of 20, after graduating from college, after getting married, after buying a house, after the youngest child gets married, after negotiating the business, and after retirement!Everyone is willing to sacrifice the present in exchange for the unknown waiting; sacrifice most of the hard-earned money of a lifetime to buy the comfort of old age.Many people think that happiness has to wait until a certain time or something is done.However, life is always changing and the environment is always unpredictable.In real life, various emergencies always emerge in endlessly, and we never know what will happen in the next second.In an instant, the giant wheel of life capsizes, and we may thus break into darkness.

One can never predict the future.Therefore, don't delay the life you want to live, and don't be stingy in expressing your heart.Everyone's life has an end. Many people often find that they have a lot of things to do and a lot of things to say when their lives are about to end. This is really the greatest regret in life.The dead cannot be chased, and the coming is still uncertain. The most precious moment that needs to be grasped in real time is often lost in the blink of an eye.

Whether we realize it or not, life is always going on.Life does not sell return tickets, and what is lost will never come back.We don't know how much possible happiness is lost by placing our hope on "waiting until the free time to enjoy it".Don't wait for a day when "we can breathe easy" or "the trouble is over" to achieve our goals or ideals.

Most of the good things in life are fleeting.Enjoy them, savor them, be kind to everyone around you, and don't waste your time waiting for all the puzzles to have a happy ending.

happiness is by your side

A young woman went home and told her mother that her marriage was bad.The husband neither has much money nor a good job, and life is always going round and round, monotonous and boring.Mother asked with a smile, how much time do you spend together?My daughter said it was too much.My mother said, back then, when your father went to the battlefield, what I hoped for every day was that he would triumphantly return from the battlefield as soon as possible and stay with him all day long.It's a pity that he died in a battle and never came back. I really envy you can get along day and night.The mother's old tears from the vicissitudes of life fell drop by drop, and gradually, the daughter seemed to understand something.

A group of young men talked about their lovers at the dinner table, and they all said that the wife was too strict and almost lost her freedom.They talked and drank like cattle, threatening to go home and fight with their wives.After listening silently, an old man at the next table stood up to toast them, and asked, "Are all your wives responsible?" The young men nodded.The old man sighed and said: "My wife was too strict with me back then. I divorced angrily, so that she died of depression later. If there is a chance, I wish I could apologize to her in person and ask her Take care of me all the time. Young people, cherish fate!" The young men looked at the sad-looking old man, silent, as if they had realized something.

An official stepped down from his management position due to personnel diversion, and was depressed for a while, as if he were a different person.His wife comforted him, is official career the greatest pursuit in life?You still have academic qualifications and professional skills at least, so you can start your career again.You have always been a person who treats life well, and we will not treat you differently because you are not a leader.In my eyes, you are still my husband and the father of my child.I tell you darling, I love you even more now than before.The husband looked at his wife for a long time without saying a word, his eyes sparkled with crystal luster.

A blind man enjoys a concert in a theater.The symphony is sometimes dignified and slow, sometimes bright and enthusiastic, sometimes thick clouds cover the sun, and sometimes the clouds clear away.The blind man pulled the people around him in surprise and said, I have seen it, I have seen mountains and rivers, I have seen flowers and plants, I have seen a bright world and a colorful life...

A hearing-impaired child sees works in an art exhibition.He watched carefully, with a focused look, turned around suddenly, smiled and said loudly to the parents next to him, I heard it, I heard the singing of the birds, I heard the roar of the waterfall, and the sound of the wind whistling...

For one patient, the doctor solemnly told him that the operation was successful and the test results came out. The tumor removed from his abdominal cavity was a benign tumor, and he could recover and be discharged after a period of recuperation without threatening his life.Immediately, his face was full of joy, his eyes were bright, he held the doctor's hand tightly, and said excitedly, thank you, thank you, you gave me a second life...

Where is the happiness?With such questions, all living beings, the vast sea of ​​people, we are trying to find the answer.In fact, happiness is a diverse proposition. We are pursuing happiness, and happiness is always with us.It's just that, many times, we are in the mountains of happiness, and what we see from the angles of far and near is always the happiness of others, and we often don't fully feel the world of happiness that we have.

We often turn a blind eye to happiness while shouting the slogan of pursuing happiness.In fact, happiness is by your side, hidden in your trivial life.

look to grace, enjoy life

(End of this chapter)