This morning, he invited his grandfather to a salt coffee shop. As soon as he met his grandfather, he sighed: "My project has just been almost completely repaired by the investor, all the effort is considered wasted". He took a sip of tea, slowly said: "That's good. I just learned another lesson about impermanence.
He frowned. For him, "impermanence" sounds like a concept for temples, not for drawings. But he laughed: "Buddha's words about impermanence are very interesting. Joy and sadness do not last forever. I am sad because the project was revised. But try to remember, last year when I signed my first contract, how happy was I? Is that joy still intact now?
He reconsidered. The joy at that time was once thought to be "the peak of his career", now it is just a Facebook status that has drifted to the bottom. He continued, in his youth he once won a literary award. He cherished it like a treasure, reminding him wherever he went. Then a few years later, people no longer asked about that award. They asked: "Have you written anything new yet?" At that time he understood that glory also has a limit of use. If he lived forever in the past, he would become a "beggar of the past" like the name of a novel by writer Chu Lai.
But what about worries - he asked - I'm always worried. Worrying about failing the project, worrying about not being able to buy a house, worrying about falling behind". He laughed heartily: "At my age, I was also worried. Worrying about not having enough money to raise children, worrying about books not being sold. Then I discovered an interesting thing: 90% of worries did not happen. The remaining 10%, whether you worry or not, still happens. Living in the present does not mean ignoring the future. You still have to design, still have to calculate the structure. But when you have done your best today, you should sleep well at night. Don't bring the entire unbuilt building into your dream.
He suddenly remembered that once because of an unsatisfactory drawing, he tossed and turned all night. Looking back the next morning, it turned out that only a few small details needed to be adjusted. He said, human life is like a building that is always in the process of repair. Walls can crack, roofs can leak. But that does not mean we refuse to live in the current house, just because it is not perfect.
Today do well today. Tomorrow let tomorrow worry. Emotions are like the weather. Don't build a house on a rain.
