You could make a far away when giving up heavy burden that unworthy to take along.
On the Mexico coast, an American businessman sat on the shipside of a small fishing village, looking at a Mexico fisherman rowing a tiny boat in shore, with several rhubarb fish in his boat; the businessman laid it on with a trowel to fisherman for those slap-up fish, and asked him how long he took to catch so many fish?
The Mexico fisherman answered that he just spent little time for those fish. The American continued to ask, why don’t you catch more? Fisherman answered disapprovingly: all these fish is enough for my family to live on! Then what are you going to do with the rest of day? The American asked.
Fisherman explained: me? I get up after natural sleep and launch out to get some fish. Usually, I’ll play with my children after coming back from sea, and have a nap with my wife. At the moment of sunset, I used to walk into thevillage for a small drinking, and then play guitar with my friends. How rich and busy days I have!
The American businessman disapproved with him, and made some ideas for him, he said: I’m the enterprise management bachelor of Harvard University, maybe I can help you! You should spend more time on fishing, and when the time comes, you may afford a much bigger boat. Then, you’ll get more fish, and buy many fishing boats. Whereafter, you may own a team of fishing fleet. You don’t have to sell fish to fishmonger but factory directly. Or open a cannery on your own. In that way, it’s great for you to control the entire product processing, curing and marketing. Move your family from this small village to Mexico City, and then Los Angeles, New York at last. There, you can run your unceasing expanded business.
Fisherman asked the American: how long will it take?
Fifteen to twenty years.
Then?
The American laughed loudly: then you could be the king in your family! When the opportunity comes, declare your stock to come into the market, and sell your company to investing people. You’ll get lots of money at that moment! You can make money for billions!
And then?
And then you could think about retire thing! Move back to the small village on the seaside. Get up after natural sleep and launch out to get some fish. To play with children when you back, and get a nap with your wife. When sunset, to walk into the village for a small drinking, and playing guitar with your friends!
There are so many things that make our life heavy and messed-up. Too complicated thinking, too lumbersome burden, disordered bothering, and too much temptation, all these things stop us, and ruin us severely in an invisible way.
If you want to get something in your lifetime, then do not create so many temptation things. You have to know the truth that more mussy things keep in your mind, the more hard to take right way of struggling. We need to simplify our life. Sometimes, it’s really necessary fro us to give up something, and learn to denial ourselves, then abandon things of life and mind resolvedly.
If we always live a way depending on the inertia of past, or knowing experiences, and keep the success ever had, struggle for every benefit, envy all kinds of life styles, fear to offend friends, then we’ll all tire of dealing, spending more time and energy in those meaningless dispute and endless consumption. When it comes, we are not only limit our development, but also lost in choosing right forward direction.
Standing in vital milestone of life, there will be some weed and tumours breeding ground to damage our fair life garden and blest family. We have to learn to root out and give up these weed. To abandon jobs not fit you, to give up working position twists you wrap and environment reveals your weaknesses. To quit from power and reclame, relationship entanglement, changed friendship, failure amativeness, broken marriage, meaningless social intercourse, bad mood, the bad habit of prejudice, and unnecessary pressure.
No other than to give up the weeds and pests existing in our life field and garden, we’ll take a chance to close to person who are beneficial to us, and obtain things fit us. Then we could plant good seeds and try our best to the valuable culture, finally we’ll harvest with plentiful a food, pick up floridity flowers from our life garden.
To give up properly is like a breakout to the enemies who put our down; it’s a kind of powerful counterpunch for the things you commit yourself to; it’s a fire to the enemies who waster your life; and it’s the precondition for you to survive in a greater space.
To give up properly is a sort of cleaning of burdens binding you. Just abandon those burdens you cannot take along with you; those burdens that cumber with you, that’s the way you’ll get a chance to walk your own way simply, make the journey of life much happy, and then you may climb higher and take a further far away, to pick up more beautiful views of life.