This reminds me of an article discussing opium in this day and age. 170 years ago, Marx said that religion is the opium of the people. And what is opium in today's era? A British magazine conducted a survey. According to the number of votes, the answers were: the Internet, children, celebrities, and food.
The so-called opium is a placebo that draws people away from reality.
The Internet is addictive because of the obsession with new things. We need to constantly absorb new information, connect with our fellow earthmates, and confirm our existence.
Food is a reward for our hard work, and hands-on production can highlight our skills and taste. I'm impressed by the words of one novelist sarcastically: "For the British and American lower classes, good food can make them forget that Macs and French fries are rising in price, while their incomes remain flat or even falling. Satisfying one's appetite leads to the misunderstanding that what is missing in life is not meaning, purpose, but a brownie."
What is the meaning? Some people say it's about being happy every day (what I expect from myself at the age of 23), some people say it's getting married and raising children (children are considered one of the opiums), some people say it's traveling the world. Thinking of sharing a friend's travel official account today, my other friends were inspired to find the meaning of life in an instant. Traveling is wonderful, seeing the beauty of the world, making friends, but by definition, it’s also a form of opium.
Returning from travel, after all, we must return to daily life, return to reality, and return to ourselves. Someone once said that traveling only requires courage, and if you are a little unhappy, you can change places, change friends, and start over. But in the face of everyday life, courage alone is simply not enough. You must resist all mistakes, fall down and get up in place, constantly mend your old self, no matter how much you dislike it, there is no way to escape.
The meaning may come from the courage to face the truth. People grow up in pain. When you are so entangled that you can't be entangled any more, you can't twist your mind until you can't twist your bar any more, and you're so painful that you can't be more painful, you can accept your mistakes, accept your failures, and accept yourself.
Then take opium.
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