The ultimate three questions of life

"What's for lunch?"

"What's for dinner?"

Same as the three questions in your mind? -Negative points!

The question that is really called the ultimate three questions in life is actually the ultimate question of philosophy:

"Who am I?"

"Where am I from?"

"Where am I going?"

I wonder how many people thought about it before 18? How many people still think that these three philosophical questions have nothing to do with themselves?

In fact, volunteering for the college entrance examination is the first opportunity for most people to formally face these three problems.

The ordinary students in China are faced with the morning when they never get enough sleep, endless exercise, and a door above their heads that once they have passed, life will be unimpeded. I feel guilty after writing enough exercises, picking up an extracurricular book and rummaging through it, not to mention spending precious time thinking about these three questions with no standard answers and no end. Students who are used to the inland education system naturally hate questions with no standard answers. "Give me the right answer! It's a fart not to answer this question! " It is this restless spark that comes out of red eyes.

Therefore, volunteering for the college entrance examination, an excellent first opportunity to seriously think about your future life, is missed by most people.

But missing doesn't mean that we can get rid of these three problems from now on. I don't know if you have noticed that at every intersection of life, you have to face endless torture of these three questions with no standard answers.

If you plan or have chosen to study abroad, you must analyze yourself and express yourself in the application materials and personal documents. Everyone wants to see at least a little deeper. Through a piece of paper, you are answering these three questions to your ideal university: "Who are you?" -Why are you? ; "Where are you from?" What is your experience and motivation in applying for this university? ; "Where are you going?" -Is this university your destination?

A considerable number of China students choose to find an intermediary to apply for studying abroad, thinking that this can avoid all risks and troubles. But they didn't know at the time that these three questions were still waiting for them in the future!

Next, everyone will face the test of finding a job after graduation. Even if you follow the preset career path according to your parents' wishes, you are still making choices for your life, and the consequences of this choice can only be borne by yourself. If you try to avoid the trouble of thinking and choose to send resumes to many companies in different fields when considering your future career direction, then the task of thinking will be postponed until the night before you have to write a letter of job motivation and prepare to go to the company for an interview: "Please introduce yourself in one minute"-who are you? ; "Can you tell me about your last failure?" Where are you from? ; "What is your career plan for the next five years?" -Where are you going?

Of course, no interview can't be solved by face-to-face interview skills and rhetoric. So many people worked for a while and found that "this is not the working environment I want." Decisive people will resign and start over, and hesitant people will struggle with these three problems every night.

In fact, there are not a few people who muddle along, but walking leads to one of the most important choices in life-choosing a spouse. These three problems are tormenting the parties more and more endlessly. Some people are afraid of getting married before marriage or running away on their wedding day. Isn't it because they haven't thoroughly considered what life they really want, what they want from their partners and what they can give each other? Think about having to share the chicken flying and the dog jumping with this person in the future-this prospect is really terrible in the eyes of people who have not seriously thought about the three questions!

Naturally, someone waved his hand, just like brushing dandruff off his shoulder, pretending to erase the pursuit of these three questions easily. After marriage, tea, rice, oil, salt, bitter, sweet and sour, but only those people know the taste. Maybe in the dead of night, there are a few times when you look at the sleeping face of the person who snores at the bedside and finally think of those three questions: "Is this the life I want?" -Who am I? ; "Will you be happier before you get married?" -Where am I from? ; "Will I really grow old with this person?" -Where am I going?

However, at this time, in the eyes of most people, it is hard to return. So I still try to comfort myself, and I will go on like this! Isn't there a child? If I successfully raised my children, my life would not fail! Thus, the last review of these three questions finally triggered this perfect logical closed loop.

The scene above scares me, so I don't want to run away. The reason why it brought me back to this ultimate thinking is actually a bit compelling. I am in the last year of graduate school, and I must take some practical actions for the future. Yesterday, I went to the school's career counseling room to chat with my teacher. During this time, I hesitated to ask a question, "If I hint to the company that I don't need salary and subsidy, will it increase my chances of getting an internship?" The teacher's answer is "Of course, if you say so, it will increase your chances of success", but he immediately replied, "But for this company, the most important thing is not how much salary you are paid, but whether what the company wants is equal to what you can provide. This is the most important factor. " After a long turn, the most important step goes back to the original three questions: what value can I provide? What kind of working environment and opportunities do I want to have? Which direction should I grow up in?

Admittedly, even when I was sixteen, I racked my brains to think about the ultimate three questions in life. The answers at the age of twenty-six and thirty-six were probably quite different. But because this book is also a topic with no standard answer, every different answer has irreplaceable significance. With the growth and change of life experience, the scenery at each stage is different, and the answers you can write to yourself will also change dramatically.

Even just once, don't worry about the standard answer. Try to spend a few nights thinking about the nothingness, pain and certainty of these three questions.