Post by donq on Apr 10, 2016 18:26:04 GMT
Today I was thinking about what Gu Long, a famous Taiwanese Wuxia (martial hero) novelist wrote:
Their lives (heroes) were usually colorful and interesting, full of dangers and excitements.
There were many people who loathed and detested them. There were many people who envied them.
Because they usually dressed glamorously, gave out generously, drank whole-heartily, ate wholly.
Unfortunately these are their happy side…
They have another side.
A painful side.
Magnificent constable caught a magnificent thief, planned feast to celebrate the heroic deed, ate and drank whole-heartily, drank till half-death.
Great bandit completed a big heist, handed some to the poor, spent the entire day in wine and pleasure, spent until there was no more.
Great hero with fame and power and no matter where he went, he was respected and welcomed.
Noble child born to luxury and extravagance, who always had whatever he wanted.
These lives are definitely envious; but have you seen their other side?
They had their loneliness and pain...
In dark and quiet night, waking up after drinking whole-heartily, and then suddenly realizing the person lying next to you is someone you didn’t even know the name of.
Have you experienced this before?
Between the noise of cheers and acclaims, after a person returns home to the pitch-black window only wishing for daylight to come out quicker.
Have you felt this way before?
Tonight you spent in drinking and pleasure, party blissfully, but you do not even know when you will be at tomorrow.
Even not knowing where you will be drunk tonight.
Willow tree dances in the wind, breezes at dawn and the fading moon. Although these moods are beautiful, but in its beauty how desolate it is and how it makes a man heart-broken.
This type of happiness, would you want to enjoy it?
Hypothetically, if you are able to have whatever you wanted, then what in life is worth chasing after?
This type of meaningless, who would know?..
Life, after all, is also lovely.
When a man is alive, he ought to understand how to enjoy life and how to pursue happiness.
If a man’s face is dirty, should he not go to a mirror in order to see how to wipe it off?
I only hope this mirror could do the same; help people wipe away the dirt spots in their lives.
I truly hope every one’s life could become happier.
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I also thought about what Dostoevsky wrote:
...It is not for nothing that I prayed and wept to the Holy Mother for you! You may go all round the world, you may get to know the whole earth and not find another love like mine, if it is love your heart wants. I will love you warmly, I will always love you as I do now, and I will love you because your soul is pure and clean and can be seen through; because when first I glanced at you, at once I knew you were the guest of my house, the longed-for guest, and it was not for nothing that you wanted to come to us; I love you because when you look at me your eyes are full of love and speak for your heart, and when they say anything, at once I know of all that is within you...
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I had lived a colorful and interesting life. And yes, I also have had a painful side. Who doesn't?
Years passed by and I have tried so many things. I have come so far and my hair has turned grey. I know so many things and still know nothing. I've tasted so many tastes but there's only one taste that is always real and never changes. Let me call it spiritual taste?
