The great philosopher is our neighbor––Schopenhauer

Ryain is a long-distance bus driver. He looked at the workers who were spraying disinfectant in front of him, and sprayed them on a row of seats that had just been removed from the bus. The company received a notice from the health department that a passenger on the bus had been diagnosed with Wuhan pneumonia, and asked to put it away. The bus was thoroughly disinfected, and the driver had to undergo a medical test immediately. He wondered how many people got on this "virus bus"? It is also unknown how many people have been infected on these seats and how far away are they dying?

Ryain now goes out to work every day, feeling uneasy, not sure if it will be the last time to leave home, because it is difficult to say whether he will be in the same car with the passengers with the virus today, and there are 80 out of 100 passengers passing by the driver's seat every day. , but as a bus driver, his duty is to send people who are eager to go home to their destination, at least so that they can go back to a safer place, but in the process, the driver is faced with great risks. From start to finish.

Although Ryain is afraid of death, he still drives with determination. He could have quit his job and stayed at home to receive the government's weekly emergency aid to avoid the risk of the Wuhan pneumonia, but he did not This choice still goes back to the driver's seat where he has spent the most time in the past 20 years. The round steering wheel is the only one that can make him feel his existence, so he would rather risk his life to keep the true feeling of stepping on the accelerator and stepping on the brakes.

Wuhan pneumonia has brought countless tragedies to the world and created countless fears for the world. There was a massacre in the UK the day before yesterday. The male householder shot his wife and two young daughters to death with a gun, and also killed the puppies they kept. , In the end, he swallowed a gun and committed suicide, leaving no survivors in the family. The male head of the household used to work in a construction company, but was fired by the company due to the impact of the epidemic. The family suddenly fell into economic difficulties. As a means of saying goodbye to the epidemic.

Faced with the impact of the epidemic, everyone has different reactions. Facing the threat of life, the bus driver has fear of death, but he has no choice to escape. Resigning may keep him away from fear and sadness, but he also loses happiness. He lost the sense of existence, so he would rather devote himself wholeheartedly to work, experience the sense of existence as a driver at the moment, and realize that the meaning and value of life lies in overcoming the fear of the epidemic. As with Schopenhauer's view of the relationship between life, existence and death, in order to preserve the existential meaning of reality, death is less important.

The family tragedy in England fell into the pendulum life as Schopenhauer said. In his book "Wisdom of Life" in the late 1850s, he said: "The happiness that a man can obtain belongs to him, from a It has been determined by the personality of the person from the beginning. Pain and boredom are the two mortal enemies of human happiness. When we feel happy, when we are far from the one above which saves us from this pain, we also approach the other enemy , and vice versa. When desires are not satisfied, they are miserable, and when they are satisfied, they are boring. Life is like a pendulum swinging between pain and boredom.”

Schopenhauer's description of life has an important premise. Not everyone's life is a pendulum life. It is different for those who have acquired real life wisdom. These people are full of heart and spiritual richness, just like a bus driver. However, the personality of the male head of household is completely different from that of the bus driver. His life is unfortunately trapped in the pendulum life model. To explain it with Schopenhauer's "Happiness Theory", if we want to pursue happiness, we must return to ourselves. To pursue, and the male head of household just blindly pursues outside, when he finds that his external pursuit has been disillusioned by an epidemic, life becomes meaningless, which is equivalent to declaring death.

This great philosopher Schopenhauer, no matter how far his age is from us, his spiritual face can still live in front of us. As long as people's minds are not bound by secular material, as long as they jump out of the pursuit of fame and fortune, Schopenhauer His wisdom has a positive effect on our lives, and we are not too far from him!