Success anxiety disorder

 　　 Most of the modern people suffer from success anxiety disorder, and at the same time, the imagination of success is extremely lacking. People generally imitate a limited number of successes: body, love, wealth, power. Not only do people worry about not being successful enough, but they also worry about not being successful in the way they are widely accepted.

　　   After Confucius was middle-aged, he traveled around the world and encountered obstacles everywhere. If you can't do it, you will retreat and write a book. By all single earthly standards, he was a loser. To implement political ideas, you must master political power. It's not that he didn't have the chance to be in power, but he always stubbornly ruined it. From this perspective, his life is a life of constantly missing opportunities. Mencius said that Confucius was "the time of the sage". Mencius believed that Confucius was the most able to grasp the opportunity among the sages.

　　   A person who can only imagine success will not understand Mencius' evaluation of Confucius. A society that can only accept success will not respect the efforts of Confucius. For individuals and societies who can only imagine success, invisible success is not success; if the world cannot be changed, it is not worthy of the respect of the world. For Confucius, it is good to make the world change. What he is responsible for is not the world, but the way of heaven. In Mencius' view, Confucius made a dedication to the way of heaven, so he was "a man of holy time".

　　   A person responsible for the divine may have a different sense of time than we do.

　　   We often feel that time is in a hurry. Because we have success hiding somewhere in the future on our minds. No matter how you define it, it must be in the world, at some point in the foreseeable future. If possible, we would like to devote all our time to it. For us, life in the past and the present is preparing for that visible future. Unfortunately, our will is weak and our wisdom is not enough. We are often tempted and interrupted by irrelevant things, and we often miss valuable opportunities. So, we blame ourselves, worry, and look everywhere for a cure. Since then, there have been so many so-called success manuals that were created to meet our needs. All success studies talk about one thing: how to squeeze the most out of your time for the sake of your future.

　　   Those who are holy in their hearts will be much calmer. What he wants to do is to pay tribute to eternity with this unique life, this moment. Tzu said in the river: "The dead are like a gentleman." Tzu also said: "Forgetting to eat in anger, forgetting worries in joy, not knowing that old age is coming." Those

　　   who invest in the future are always worried about missing the opportunity. He who is holy in his heart does not hunt for opportunities for his own future, he himself is the unique opportunity to respond to the divine.