A poor man got a cow by accident. The poor thought that with this cow, he could open up wasteland in spring and cultivate and harvest in autumn. In this way, within a few years, he can become rich.
But the harvest of autumn has not arrived. In the midst of hunger and cold, the poor changed their minds. The poor think that if you sell the cow, you can buy a few sheep, eat one first, and use the rest to give birth to lambs. When the lambs grow up, they will give birth to lambs, so he will have a lot Lots of sheep.
But the sheep did not give birth to lambs for a long time. In the midst of hunger and cold, the poor continued to slaughter the sheep and eat them. When the last one was left, the poor changed their minds. The poor man thought, it’s better to sell this sheep, buy a few chickens, eat one first, and use the rest to lay eggs and brood the chicks. The chicks grow into big chickens, and the big chickens hatch chicks, so that he can Will have countless chickens.
But the chickens have not hatched chickens for a long time. In the midst of hunger and cold, the poor people continue to kill chickens and eat them. When the last chicken was eaten, the poor thought, it is better to sell this chicken in exchange for some eggs and eat it first. Some of them, and the rest, hatch the chicks again. In this way, the poor ate the last egg and became nothing again.
From a cow, to a sheep, to a chicken, to an egg, until the last egg is eaten, the ideals of the poor are completely shattered.
From this story, we see the whole process of a person’s disillusionment.
This is how ideals are shattered: in the process of fighting for ideals, when a person encounters poverty, ups and downs, setbacks, and failures, he cannot adhere to his original ideals, and is often “a sheep” or “a chicken”. In the temptation of “an egg” and other material desires, I constantly lower my ideals, shrink my ideals, and stay away from my ideals until the ideals in my heart disappear.
