Life is not just about dry goods, there is also chicken soup and chicken blood

The term "Chicken Soup for the Soul" originated in the United States in 1993, and is called "Chicken Soup for Soul" in English. At that time, there was an uncle named Jack Canfield who wrote a series of warm and inspirational stories and compiled them into a book called "Chicken Soup for the Soul". It was strongly sought after by the American people and sold more than thousands of books. Thousands of volumes.

In the late 1980s, the "Chicken Soup Poet" Wang Guozhen came out of nowhere and brought the first bowl of Chicken Soup for the Soul to the Chinese people. By the 1990s, this writing style began to be warmly welcomed by the masses and used by a large number of authors. Typical representatives are Liu Yong, a writer living in the United States, and Zhou Guoping, a philosophy major. At this time, chicken soup, as a powerful spiritual placebo, was accepted by the masses and became the hottest slogan in the marketing of many books and radio stations.

Later, with the development of the Internet, Chicken Soup for the Soul began to appear frequently on portals, forums, post bars, and now on Weibo, WeChat, Zhihu, and other platforms. As far as the eye can see, there must be chicken soup. The proliferation of chicken soup for the soul has made the original image of warmth, inspiration and positive energy begin to be questioned and resented by people.

In May 2014, there was a whirlwind of "anti-chicken soup" on the Internet. For example, "Life is not just about the present, but also about the future.", "Gold will always shine, but stones will not shine anywhere.", "If you find that life has deceived you, it doesn't matter, life will continue to deceive you tomorrow." “...these anti-chicken soups, because of their distinctive style, ridicule, and the ability to face the bleak life, brought a refreshing and refreshing feeling to the people for a while, and then formed a craze.

At this time, the negative connotation of chicken soup gradually outweighs the positive connotation. So people began a long game between chicken soup and anti-chicken soup. It was not until later that people gradually realized that: in fact, anti-chicken soup is also a kind of chicken soup. It's just a chicken soup with a different taste. Just like Yuanyang hot pot, if the chicken soup is the original pot base, then the anti-chicken soup is the spicy pot base. A warm, inspiring and positive energy, and a spicy and teasing style, but in essence they are just chicken soup.

At this time, people who were swaying between chicken soup and anti-chicken soup suddenly realized: I can't always drink soup. No matter how much soup I drink, I can't stop being hungry. I have to eat something. Something real. So "dry goods" came into being. Dry goods advertise themselves like this: We are not soup, we do not add water, we are meat. Ensure that the medicine can cure the disease accurately and accurately. As a result, the dry goods were widely sought after, and for a while, the stores were empty.

For example, Peng Xiaoliu, the master of dry goods on the Internet, started his career by writing dry goods. His early articles were indeed very dry, with almost no moisture at all. It's very filling and satisfying to read. But later on, his articles became more and more watery, and the flavor of chicken soup became stronger. At this time, some readers began to criticize: a dry-goods author started writing chicken soup. It seemed that he had been greatly hurt. Peng Xiaoliu himself said: I have been writing dry stuff in the past few years, and I am very tired. Many times, I need chicken soup to persevere.

That’s right, people are not machines, everyone has emotional needs. When you are exhausted on the road of struggle, a bowl of chicken soup and a dose of chicken blood will immediately revive you with full health and keep moving forward. Today’s society is under so much pressure to survive that many times we need chicken soup, or even anti-chicken soup. This is why chicken soup is so popular.

However, drinking chicken soup should not be excessive. Because the essence of chicken soup is to remove many elements of the complicated living environment, especially those realistic, skinny, bleak, and negative elements, and only select those warm, soft, and positive elements, and amplify them, and prepare them in this way Become. You can't find a reason to refute it because everything it says is right. But it is one-sided and obscures the purpose. Being immersed in this kind of tender chicken soup for a long time is tantamount to a kind of mental paralysis. It can be seen from this that the so-called chicken soup is a small drink that is pleasant, but a large drink is harmful to the body. Taking too much is like arsenic.

Mentioned arsenic, arsenic trioxide, highly toxic substances.

But it is not without its merits. There are many records in history of its use in treating sleeping sickness, tuberculosis, skin diseases and other stubborn diseases. Not long ago, the oral arsenic drug independently developed by the University of Hong Kong was confirmed to be miraculous in the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia.

It can be seen that whether it is chicken soup, anti-chicken soup, dry food or arsenic, there is no superior or inferior quality to the things themselves. Everything depends only on the person who uses them. Only you know best when you need chicken soup, when you need anti-chicken soup, and when you need dry goods. The so-called best is what suits you. It is a good thing that there are so many things in the world, which can satisfy the different choices and preferences of different people.

In this case, when we face chicken soup, anti-chicken soup, and dry goods, we must abandon the extreme views of black and white, life and death, and strive to find a balance in our hearts: you can drink chicken soup , can swallow dry food. What is needed to maintain this balance is based on rational judgment and the ability to think independently. In this way, we will not be paralyzed by the anti-intellectualization, emotionality, and one-sidedness of Chicken Soup and anti-Chicken Soup, and we will not be swayed by dry goods.

I hope you can live your life consistently in this complicated and colorful world.

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