Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Photography and portraiture - I've been thinking about a problem for years. I was thinking. What are people doing alive? My question is: What do people live or do?

I've been thinking about a problem for years. I was thinking. What are people doing alive? My question is: What do people live or do?

Your ultimate task

Driven by a sense of mission, your parents got married and you were born. You inherited your parents' genes to form a cell, greedily absorbed the nutrients provided by your mother in a chaotic but energetic state, and gradually developed into an embryo, so you were formed. In fact, from the moment you become a fertilized egg, you have already started to communicate with the present world through your mother. You feel everything aimlessly, and you are learning how to adapt to the world.

When you were born, you found that the world was not as comfortable as your mother's womb, so you croaked and shouted, which really made your parents sad. In infinite love and care, you find that everything is irreversible. In your mother's arms, you reluctantly open your eyes and carefully look at strangers and strange environments around you. Gradually, your six senses (sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch and meaning) began to adapt, and you began to use them to capture (learn) everything around you. At the same time, you find that the world you came to seems beautiful.

When you were young (before the age of 3), you were almost crazy about the world. You came to a wonderful scenic spot like a photographer. You were obsessed with it and pressed the shutter. Soon, your brain will be filled with these superpixel images. You were 3 years old when you found this situation. At this time, you begin to selectively "capture" and delete images stored in your brain before the age of 3. In fact, this kind of "capture" after the age of 3 can no longer be called "capture". This is an abstract capture and selective memory. Because you can't use memory space as before, you must first store the most critical and useful things.

13 years old is an important turning point in life. Your brain is full again. You have to delete the memory before the age of 3 again to gain more space to store more and more knowledge. At this time, do you realize that a serious problem has been placed in front of you and you need to make a judgment? The question is "Why study?" Is it to get into a good university? Is it to make more money in the future? Is it for the rise of China? The above seemingly good answers are actually one-sided, and they are not the most in line with the most essential mission of mankind (the middle way)-inheriting wisdom. At this critical age, our children should establish a learning will that conforms to the "middle way". Only in this way can our life be the most meaningful.

The sage said, stand at thirty. It means that by the time you are 30 years old, all the concepts, logic and wisdom you have learned before will reach a perfect state, and you can think and judge independently, make innovations and achievements. At this time, you should not only continue to learn, improve your own realm, but also bear the responsibility of creation. The creation mentioned here is actually that you constantly process the knowledge and skills you have learned, gain a brand-new experience and pass it on. The so-called inheritance has two meanings, one is to pass it on to your society through your career, and the other is to pass it on to your descendants.

When you are old and about to leave this world, you find that everything is calm and you are not as brave as before. You recall every day, every bit of life, every wonderful performance you have experienced. These days, you look at your children and grandchildren with kind eyes and want to say something to them. At this moment, you suddenly find that the truth you have learned for decades can only be summarized in a few simple seemingly ordinary sentences. Although most children and grandchildren don't understand the great significance behind these words, you still said it and tried your best. At this moment, you finally completed your mission in life.

People are learning all their lives, and at the same time, they innovate what they have learned into wisdom and pass it on to the next generation in various ways. This is your ultimate task.