HAVE THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF DEAT
After I read The five boons of life,the most strongest feeling I have is that it’s high time to own the consciousness of death,which can encourage me to cherish life better, live better and more happily.
Have the consciousness of death
Leo Tolstoy once wrote, there is no life which cannot be destroyed by collapse and death.
However,many philosophers and psychologists believe that strengthening the consciousness of death can make people live better, more happily.Some monks also put skeletons on their bedside tables, reminding themselves that life is limited.
Laura ,psychology professor of the university of Missouri recently studied the interaction between death consciousness and life values. They applied the exiguous sex principle, namely ‘content with rare for expensive’, supposing death makes people realize that life is limited, letting a person cherish life.
The researchers first asked a group of participants to answer questions concerning his own death, and let another group of participants answer questions which have nothing to do with death. The results show that after a period of time, the ‘group of death’ think life is more precious and more meaningful. Then the study further found that if people read the article which implies life is very valuable,they are more likely to think of death than the people who don’t read these articles.
To sum up, the study shows that the value of life and death consciousness have complex connection.owning the consciousness of death can help a person cherish life and live better.
Learn to cherish life
In fact, in terms of the complete and unified process of life, happiness, love, fame, wealth, physical, success or failure, contact with each other tightly and exist unitedly. Each of us can't make a pure and simple choice like the man in the novel.Besides,what we should understand is that the novel’s plot is fictional: A fairy with her basket, five amazing gift in basket, a young guy can make free choice and so on. In fact the novel is intended to express true life philosophy: A person should have a strong sense of death, to cherish the short but precious life, through his constant struggle, to create rich material and spiritual wealth, create a simple and beautiful love, win the high but not necessarily true fame and status, enjoy all of tears and sorrow, joy and pain which appears in the process of life,then to own a life of no regret.
Additionally,a person should foster correct world outlook on life values (including the concept of joy, love, fame, wealth, death view), have the right attitude and way to face and accept the life.
Napoleon once said that “the glory of life doesn’t lie in never falling but in cherishing life and cheering up after each failure ”What he wants to get across is that we should cherish whatever we encounter even failures in our life.No matter what we encounter in our life,there are no reasons in which we abandon ourselves and loss the hope of life ,holding the belief that every one can light up dazzling life hope .
Pushkin also said ‘If life has deceived you, don't be sad, don't get depressed.Be patient, believe me, happy days will come to you. ’This is a yearning for happiness and love of this beautiful life. in fact,the happiness of life is different from person to person, some people prefer to compare life to a song, actually, this song is lively intriguing,because this song has sad ,happy or depressed tunes.What we should do is to cherish life ,make efforts to grasp every notes, singing with our heart.
As is known to all, Mark Twain works, reveal severe pessimism mood, this mood also has obvious reflection in the five boons of life . Even so, we still have to understand that the subject of the novel is intended to emphasize that people should have a strong sense of death, should recognize the limitations of human life and life is short.Because of the existence of the death, life become valuable. Additionally,It Urges each of us to set up the correct values and outlook on life,be true to the death and life.
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