Text: Flipping through the books in his spare time
My heart was full of emotion, as soft as spring.
——Wang Zengqi's "The Complete Works of Wang Zengqi"
Water, in different forms.
At room temperature, it is water, and at low temperatures, it freezes, and when it is heated to boiling, it shows a wildness in the form of a strong gas.
But essentially, they can all be called "water."
What kind of temperament a person shows is not fixed, and different environments and atmospheres reflect different faces of people.
The so-called "orange born in Huainan is orange, born in Huaibei is orange", emphasizing the influence of the environment on human personality.
This view may one-sidedly emphasize the shaping of people by external factors, does the environment shape people, or does it reflect the inherent character of people like a mirror?
I personally think it's the latter. Just as water can be in the form of ice or water vapor.
It can be seen that a good environment can maximize human virtues and suppress people's evil thoughts.
Perhaps we should take a closer look at the good and evil in human nature.
When we abstract all people as human beings, it is appropriate to use water as a comparison of human character.
But at the specific personal level, although everyone has good and evil in their hearts, whether it is a little more good or a little closer to evil, everyone is different.
When we look at whether the environment is suitable for most people, we look at whether this environment can make bad people dare not do evil, so that good people have a feeling of "doing what they want and not exceeding the rules".
However, the environment is not only used to adapt, in fact, everyone is added up to get the social environment on which we live.
Once saw such a small story:
An adult saw a child on the beach picking up fish washed ashore by the waves and releasing them back into the sea.
The adult asked the child incomprehensibly: "So many fish, can you pick it up?" ”
The child, while throwing a fish into the sea, replied, "If you can pick up one, you can pick up one." ”
The moral of the story is for adults. Just like we are to our own environment, when we can't change anything, we have to be ourselves.
The so-called cultivation is not a matter of bothering to embellish appearance, but a process of abandoning evil and promoting good.