A respectable fisher

Question:Do you think the old fisherman succeeded in the end? There is no absolute answer to this question, and there is no absolute success or failure in this world. First of all, judging from the results, the old man eventually exhausted himself but failed to eat the fish he caught to fill his stomach. So the old man is a failure. However, in terms of the process, the old man was an absolute winner in life. He has a lot of precious human characteristics and advantages, such as courage, strong, optimistic, calm, wise... There is one line in this article that I particularly like：Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is. I can not agree with this view anymore. In this book, the old man used local materials for many times in the process of fighting against sharks and minimized the damage with the few simple tools around him. Imagine if he had simply complained about his isolation and lack of tool,the final result was inconceivable. Learn to find pleasure in suffering and comfort yourself. Don't always complain about life. When people do not give up, anything will become your booster, and when you want to give up, anything will become your resistance. So we have to have a strong will and the courage to stick it out, use the available things around us as our tools, and change our own fixed mode of thinking.As the article says:Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready. "But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert. Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated."When I read this paragraph, my heart was filled with sympathy for the old man, but more admiration and respect for him.While fishing and fighting sharks, the old man was in a state of isolation from the outside world. It's in the toughest times that you see what a person can stand. "Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated." The lonely old fisherman's resolute and optimistic character and skilled fishing skills show that he is not only a tough guy, but also the embodiment of the spirit of ancient Greek tragedy. Hemingway found a soul in him, which is the eternal value of mankind. As far as I am concerned,maybe the old fisherman won nothing, but he won a victory over the strong enemy. It is in this difficult and lonely struggle that the image of the old fisherman becomes even bigger. In the face of nature, human beings are insignificant. We cannot change the inherent reality, but we can change and improve ourselves. The old fisherman's tenacious struggle and optimistic and positive spirit is worth learning.