A famous English mountaineer replied, "Because the mountain is there." For mountaineers, mountains are an irresistible call. Take mountaineering as a lofty cause and go all out.
The spirit of human exploration is eternal. It is precisely because of human exploration spirit and continuous progress that today's civilization has come into being. Many people have given their precious lives in the process of exploring nature, but this is a valuable asset for later generations.
Cultivating the spirit of exploration is of positive significance to a person and a nation. An adventurous person will constantly seek new conquest goals and new realm and height of life; On the contrary, if a person or a nation has no spirit of exploration, there will be no future.
2. A short story about life-the value of life
A child who grew up in an orphanage often asked the dean pessimistically, "What's the point of an unwanted child like me living?"
The dean always laughs without answering. One day, the dean gave the boy a stone and said, "Tomorrow morning, you take this stone to the market to sell;" But this is not real sales. Remember, no matter how much money others pay, you must never sell it. "
The next day, the boy squatted in the corner of the market. Unexpectedly, many people wanted to buy this stone from him, so the price went up. Back to the hospital, the boy excitedly reported to the dean, who smiled and asked him to sell in the gold market tomorrow. In the gold market, someone bid ten times higher than yesterday.
Finally, the dean asked the boy to take the stone to the gem market for display. As a result, the value of the stone was ten times higher than yesterday, and it was passed down as a "rare treasure" because the boy didn't sell it at all. The boy excitedly ran to the orphanage and reported all this to the dean. The dean looked at the boy and said slowly, "The value of life, like this stone, has different meanings in different environments. An unremarkable stone, because of your cherish and reluctance to sell, has enhanced its value and is said to be a rare treasure. Don't you like this stone? As long as you value yourself and cherish yourself, life is meaningful and valuable. "
3. A short story about life-Chinese and Western views on life and death
On the one hand, Confucianism recognizes that "there is life after death", but it also emphasizes that "unknown life also knows death?" Remind the world to pay attention to secular efforts. Mencius' so-called "don't die young, cultivate one's morality, keep one's family in order, so make a living" can best highlight this humanistic spirit. Although Zhuangzi, a Taoist, clearly stated that "death is also life", he also emphasized that life and death should be treated equally, because "the unity of life and death" can best show the spirit of transcendence.
In the west, Plato clearly emphasized that the purpose of life is to pursue truth, goodness and beauty, but eternal truth, goodness and beauty only after death. Therefore, "philosophy is the practice of death." In addition, he advocated the theory of immortality of the soul. Although his student Aristotle denied the immortality of the soul, he also affirmed that "sacred reason is immortal" and stressed that "we should try our best to live a rational life and make ourselves immortal".
In Kant's view, although the immortality of the soul "has no logical certainty", it has "moral certainty and inevitability". Therefore, he stressed that the more the spirit is used, the more it will come out. "The more you think, the more you do, and the longer you live." In Hegel's opinion, it is even more blunt that "death is a kind of sublation". The existentialist Heidegger clearly pointed out that the outlook on life is the view of death, and since life is destined to be a "dying existence", how to be conscientious on weekdays is the best attitude to face life and death.
Nowadays, with the development of medicine, "hospice care" has become a common concern. How to "live with dignity and die with dignity" has also become a topic that transcends national boundaries. Professor Ross of the University of Chicago's famous View of Life and Death holds that death is also a kind of "growth" of life, which is more positive and constructive.