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An enlightening phase in "Where's happiness" written by Bai Yansong
Translating version part 2:
Give it a deeper thought, it's not only that humanbeing's life is encountering with challenges of these three problems.
In the first two decades of Chinese 30 years revolution,we were solving the human-material problem by setting aim in the measurement of material,by XIAOKANG,WENBAO and double GDP increase, all above are the basic need of living. And every single person put their happiness on the material future.
We chinese have achieved these aims gradually,however,we find slowly that our happiness don't come together with those material achievements.In the whole social group complains can be heard everywhere, those who is in the top class of society complains,those lower class complains,those who is poor complains and those who is rich also complains.It seems like people become more and more worried without knowing in where the unsafety feeling exists,like infectious disease. The government worries about citizens making trouble,the citizens worries about government neglecting their interests;The rich feels uneasy for their forture robbed by others someday and the poor feels uneasy for their destiny having not changed in the future.Amid of worries and uneasyness ,happines becomes a real big problem.
In this occasion,the aim of building harmonized society comes out which is to solve the human to human problem and to push chinese people closed to happiness.Although,at the same time, another new challege comes with our effort to build hamonized society.
In china with 1.3 billion population,how should we face up with the problem between ourselves and our own heart? what's the core value of crowdness?where is our spiritual home? what's our belief?
Money?
It appears that we have owned everything except happiness.
where's the happiness?
TO be continued ...O(∩_∩)O
Post comment Comment (5 replies)
- Reply snowflying
- what's happiness? where's happiness? how to gain happiness? what need do when happiness coming? how to reach the most people's happiness status?
i think of the famous tv plays,one names"the poor mouth Zhangdamin",the other names "happpy life of the first elder brother". all of them gave the topic about "happiness" in our life.but when we gain more and more money,when we lived in bigger and bigger house,when we eat and drink better than beter,when we drive luxary car, we ask ourselves: are we happy?as i happy really?
to china, the creating happiness road long and long,it's content exceed the material construction more and more.just as your blog's ending sentence: to be continued....
- Reply ting_00
- Good translation, looking forward to the successor. I heard some elder people say, in the first decade of revolution, they are happier than nowadays, although they are lack of materials. So I think the root of unhappiness is unfair in the society, it's a deep problem. But we should try to live happily, as the sayings "Content is happiness".
- Reply jasonchung
- I like what you said "content is happiness",today i was puzzled when i was asked to define "happiness" in a debate,now, i think i got part of the answer.thank you,my friend!
- Reply jasonchung
- snowflying: what's happiness? where's happiness? how to gain happiness? what need do when happiness coming? how to reach the most people's happiness status?How should we get closed to happiness? I am afraid that material construction won't work,on the another hand,we need to ask for spiritual construction. It's the time we got happiness when we solved the third problem,as said in the book, ourselve to our own heart problem. As you said, a long way to go!
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- Reply snowflying
- jasonchung: How should we get closed to happiness? I am afraid that material construction won't work,on the another hand,we need to ask for spiritual constructiongreat idea! spiritual construction! i wrote a blog once about happiness, where 's your happiness in on earth? more and more answer, whether more materials can reach and satisfy our inner heart on earth? maybe not.
you are good at thinking and have your own thoughts. wish more exchange continuring.
