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Chapter 4 Loneliness

(Probably a draft for 6.17, modified a bit)

Puzzle. I don’t know which fragments of information should be put together to form a more complete pattern.

(Suddenly I remembered a kind of 3D puzzle, which turned out to be a sphere. It felt very interesting)

Just write whatever you want. Try to outline an article with just a few strokes.

In the past, I only wanted to choose essays, but unfortunately I only had short stories.

After reading the short story, I really followed the local customs.

It seems that only short stories can be written under the short story category.

How should I put it? It has the opposite effect of a catalyst.

Or...invisible shackles?

(There seems to be a song called "Invisible Wings")

I watched a movie a few years ago called "One Hundred Days of Solitude".

(Thinking of "One Hundred Years of Solitude")

This movie... has a particularly low rating. To put it bluntly, it's not an exaggeration to say it's shoddy.

But it just goes deep into (my) soul.

Loneliness can kill, just like physical hunger.

Think of Sartre's "Confinement".

I think of Nietzsche and Van Gogh again.

If you are closed to yourself/not understood for a long time, you will easily develop mental problems.

Mental problems may then cause family, social problems, and even human problems.

In fact, on the other hand, family, social, and human problems are often the cause of individual self-isolation.

Reciprocal cause and effect, a vicious cycle.

I never said that humans are social animals.

Because there are very obvious differences between humans and other animals.

The main reason why social animals live in groups is to ensure a higher survival rate in the cruel competition of nature.

Humans have no natural enemies.

(Better) survival and life are not necessary and sufficient conditions for human beings to live in groups.

When a person's survival/life is no longer a problem, the person may no longer actively participate in most group activities.

This state...for example: retreat to the countryside/live in seclusion.

For example, who? Tao Yuanming? Kant? Zhang Ailing in her later years?

Or Thoreau at Walden Pond.

This is one of the most amazing things about people: even if they have almost no direct contact with people, they still "continue to play an important role in the history of mankind."

A sentence comes to mind: in strategizing, victory can be achieved thousands of miles away.

Aristotle's Politics: Those who live in isolation are either beasts or gods.

Regarding reproduction. In addition to the traditional "There are three types of unfilial piety, the greatest is not having offspring" (without further discussion, it has little relevance to what I want to talk about today), the most commonly heard reason is: a person will be lonely.

Putting aside animal survival and life needs, one of the important reasons for humans to live in groups is to partially escape loneliness and isolation.

Human beings' thirst for spirituality can be unparalleled.

This is today's topic.

What is loneliness. What is loneliness.

Let me describe it briefly and loosely.

Loneliness is being alone on a physical level;

Loneliness is being alone on a spiritual level.

Obviously, there is a big difference between the two.

It’s lively when there are many people, but you don’t feel lonely when there are many people.

But being lively and not lonely does not mean not being lonely.

On the contrary, many times, people's loneliness is caused by others.

(Thinking of Sartre's "Confinement": "Hell is other people.")

For example: It is better not to communicate with someone who cannot communicate.

If you quantify it, no communication can be 0, but communication can be a negative number.

So there is a saying: lonelyyour pany.

Human health, including physical health and mental health.

In contrast, physical health is easier to sense and monitor, but mental health is not.

Psychological problems are subtle and latent, and are not easily discovered by outsiders.

Many times, I don't know exactly what's wrong with me, nor do I understand the reasons why I am like this.

When psychological problems are particularly obvious, it is roughly equivalent to a river bursting its banks. It may be too late to start taking measures at this time.

"Three feet of ice does not freeze in one day."

What’s more, the party causing the problem will rarely admit its problem. Even if it is raised, it often won’t help.

Thinking of "Bian Que Meets Duke Huan of Cai"...

"Mirror" Issue 2017-04-19

Conversation with Yu Minhong: To educate children, we must first educate parents

A conversation with Yu Minhong in the real-life family emotional education film "Mirror": "The problems of Chinese children are basically the problems of their parents. As long as China educates its parents well, the children will naturally be well educated."

Back to the movie I just mentioned.

"One Hundred Days of Solitude" actor: please talkme.

I couldn't remember the plot of the movie at first, but when I was writing this, I suddenly remembered that the protagonist and a mouse became friends (I thought of the mouse temple in India. This is just a simple association and has nothing to do with what I am talking about now).

Therefore, when people are extremely lonely, they will grasp at any life-saving straw in order to avoid mental breakdown.

Even if it’s the usually annoying rat.

Or...bugs.

Absolute loneliness is like an abyss.

I remember there was a saying, "It is God's duty to gaze into the abyss." I forgot who said it. I can't seem to find it.

Therefore, people should avoid absolute loneliness.

People should stay away from people or things that bring them close to absolute loneliness.

People should stay away from people or things that harm their body and soul.

(Speaking of this, I think of the recent news "Pregnant woman was pushed off a cliff by her husband in Thailand", it's really...)

Many of my words are drawn from my own experiences.

And truth is an interesting thing: it doesn’t mean you can solve the problem just by understanding it.

Knowing the problem is just a new starting point. That's all.

Knowing the truth but not being able to solve the problem may be more difficult than not understanding it at all.

Then a picture came to mind.

What the picture shows is that the world you see is different depending on how much you read.

(Put it in the "Picture" post of the circle)

Thinking of the three realms of seeing mountains and water.

Thinking of Wang Guowei’s three realms of reading...

Lonely.

How to avoid falling into loneliness.

In addition to staying away from people and things that make you more lonely.

Well enough..

Raise some flowers, plants, cats, dogs, hamsters, etc.

Art can also...bring spiritual sublimation.

"The Analects of Confucius" by Yan Yuan: "A gentleman uses literature to make friends, and friends to support benevolence."

But...it's cold at high places.

Once you understand something that people around you don't understand, it will be difficult to be compatible with the original group.

This can be said to be...self-exile from the group.

Without further ado, let me recommend two songs.

"7 years" by lukas graham.
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