Innocence is the hood of life, shielding the growing sand

I don't know, does growing up and maturity come at the cost of losing innocence?

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After some students left the school, they felt a lot of difficulties and struggles in their minds just after entering the world. They asked me a question invariably: Teacher, I want to keep my personality, angularity and innocence. Do you think I can do it?

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This question makes me feel very stressed. I am cautious and cautious when communicating with these children, and I want to give them a kind of warmth and encouragement. This pressure comes from two aspects: First, for so many years, I have been insisting on a certain kind of innocence, and I am well aware of the difficulties and unnecessary waste of life. Because of my innocence, I am often misunderstood and ridiculed by others, suffering and helpless. Second, I have seen too many young people tearing up their innocence, stubbornness and arrogance for a job opportunity that can provide food and clothing, having dreams but not daring to chase them, and having the will to give in again and again Due to the cruel reality, when they were young, they were smeared so bizarrely and their faces were blurred. In the end, it was surprising to find that some young people were more vicissitudes than the old people, and some old people were more innocent than the young people. In an age full of noise and turmoil, who wants to maintain innocence is one more pressure, and is often questioned by others: What is the value of innocence? Can innocence make the city of the soul impregnable?

I always think that innocence is a kind of great freedom in life, a free and easy habit to resist temptation, and a perfect protection for youth, life, and dreams. I feel pressure, struggle, and pain to stick to a certain kind of innocence. On the one hand, it shows that there are indeed cruel places in reality. On the other hand, it also shows that I am not pure enough, I have not extracted the impurities in my life, and I have not given full play to it. Pure protection performance. Innocence seems to be a natural virtue and wisdom to others, to temptation, and to the outside world. In fact, it is more important to point to yourself and see if you can treat yourself truthfully.

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The joy and truth of life are often hidden in innocence. As long as we are innocence with ourselves, we have a long-lasting and powerful happiness and truth that is not disturbed by others and the outside world; as long as we let go of what is in our hearts that hinder our innocence, we will have the ease of life and a natural personality. When we are pure first, and then look at others and the outside world, our vision and mentality will change accordingly, we will see clearly what we really want, we will know where we are running and where our territory is, and we will not be caught by others. If you walk with desire, you will not "take simple things seriously", so as to avoid the pain of being a human being and the loss and pessimism caused by the withering of dreams.

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In this world, there will always be people who are different from you, and there will always be obstacles that test whether human nature can maintain its innocence. But this is not the reason for us to lose our innocence, it should be the negative force and touchstone for us to keep our innocence; if everyone is innocent and everything goes well, we will lose our strong and valuable protection, and become even more tired of emptiness, fragility and powerlessness. It is difficult to fill the gaps in life with good things, and it is difficult to do things that make us proud and proud. A master said to us: "You should always be grateful to the sentient beings who gave you adversity." Schopenhauer also believed that misfortune was positive, "It is necessary for everyone to have certain anxiety, pain, and trouble at any time." constitutes a person's entire long life." Innocent is the cover of life, but if there is no turbulent and messy sandstorm, the value and function of the cover will be greatly reduced, and it may become a flashy decoration. Innocence is not innocence, childlike innocence needs a special kind of care, but innocence does not need, innocence has its own confidence, its own strength, its own courage, its own courage, its own freedom, its own world, so it will not Always afraid of pressure and pain, it will press these stones into the bilge, keep the ship of life steady, ride the wind and waves, and reach the other side of happiness.

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Therefore, my discussion with the children is not only whether to keep innocence, but also how to make good use of innocence.