As the saying goes, "Rivers and mountains are easy to change, but one's nature is hard to alter." Habits and flaws, once formed, are difficult to correct because the hardest part is not seeing one's own shortcomings. The greatest cultivation in life lies in overcoming these habits and flaws.
Pursuing perfection makes life exhausting. The world is always half and half: half sky, half earth; half male, half female; half good, half evil; half purity, half impurity. If one demands perfection and cannot accept imperfection, it is not that the world is flawed or fate unfair, but that there is a defect in the heart. Learning to embrace imperfection allows one to have a complete world.
How I wish to suddenly awaken one day, realizing I had fallen asleep in an elementary school class, and everything experienced since was just a long dream, with drool on the desk. You tell your deskmate that you had a very long dream. Your deskmate scolds you for being silly and urges you to pay attention. Looking at the playground outside, everything is familiar and full of hope.
You smile at me, and my heart races; you bow to me, and my body leans forward; you lose your temper with me, and I silently act as the extinguisher; yet you swear and keep your distance from me.
Life is like a dream, and living depends on the heart. With a good mindset and unwavering faith, no matter how long the road, there will be an end; no matter how deep the pain, it will eventually end. Choices are simple: go to places that make your heart feel at ease, and listen quietly to your inner voice.
Those who are generous with their time will find fate stingy with them. Only those who value time like gold and exhaust every effort to squeeze the last drop from the cow of time can become the wealthy in life.