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Love Life & Live Well: Practical Tips for Overcoming Challenges
Life is not always smooth sailing, there are bound to be downs. Everyone may have a dark and helpless day, and everyone has cried and struggled in their hearts. British novelist Samuel Richardson once said: “If the human mind is busy thinking about every unsatisfactory thing in a pessimistic direction, it will not need enemies and will be defeated!” So, if we think about it, we will be defeated! To be healthy and happy, it is very important to learn to love our lives. As long as we love life, we can overcome negative emotions, better survive adversity, draw energy from life, and live a wonderful life. The following suggestions…
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From Taxi Driver to Life Coach: Unexpected Wisdom Found on a Rainy Night
One evening several months prior, as I reclined in bed, preparing to retire, I received a summons from my employer, indicating an urgent matter requiring attention. Consequently, I toiled overtime until the early hours of the morning, ultimately completing the task. Upon exiting the premises, intending to return home, I discerned a gentle onset of rain. Having abstained from driving that day, I resorted to summoning a ride-hailing service. Promptly, the virtual taxi arrived at the unit’s entrance as scheduled. The proprietor, a gentleman of approximately thirty years, possessed a fashionable coiffure and exuded a pristine demeanor. Initial impressions suggested a jovial disposition, with an inclination towards laughter and an…
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A heartwarming tale of two “Mi”s: A stranger’s favor and a bond that transcends time and distance
Cutting potatoes into julienne, slicing cucumbers, and dicing eggplants, the rice knives resounded melodiously on the chopping board, while the basins brimming with vegetables were successively filled before me. Glistening droplets of perspiration cascaded swiftly along their natural course. Rice raised his arm, using the aged sleeve to dab at his countenance. After completing the vegetable preparation, he proceeded to steam the rice. As he scooped up the pristine grains, a serene smile graced his lips. A year later, due to land acquisition and demolition, he lost the ancestral abode that had sheltered him for decades, along with the meticulously cultivated land. Bereft of his cherished dwelling and fertile acreage,…
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The Power of Positivity: How to Find Happiness in Everything
Don’t criticize right away, saying that reasons create happiness, not just creating reasons when you have happiness, saying that my topic is absurd. It is like accusing first and then finding evidence of guilt, first divorce and then looking for evidence of spouse’s infidelity. Happiness, as a state, can be based on reasons. Didn’t the emperor sit on the dragon chair and look for signs of “heavenly sages”? The problem here is that you “command” yourself to be happy, and you are indeed happy, but you are not at ease in your heart, and feel that the happiness you get at your fingertips is not very upright. So, you have…
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How a Chance Encounter with a Stranger Saved Me from a Bad Mood
Everyone has bad times. The depression, boredom, and despair in such a poor state are really terrible, indescribable, and even gods cannot save them. Doctors and writers are both careers of thinking about people—I have these two professional habits, so I have become a person who likes thinking about people: When people are in a very bad state, what do they rely on for salvation? On this day, I was in a very bad state, my legs were heavy, and my head was dizzy. When I walked into Beijing West Railway Station, I saw that there were still more than two hours before the departure time of the…
