Three chairs

In Thoreau's Walden, he said, "There are three chairs in my room, one for sitting alone, two for making friends and three for socializing."

"People only have one and a half friends", one is sincere, and the other half can sacrifice their own interests for their friends. So you only need two chairs to make friends, one for your friends and one for yourself. Socialization requires three chairs, one to sit by yourself, one to increase knowledge and one to confide in. If there are other chairs, it will be redundant. For Thoreau, whose inner life is pure, three chairs are enough. Thoreau's needs are as simple as that.

Life is like a chair. If you simplify the complex and remove the redundant parts, your life will be simple, concise, concise, rich and profound. Sitting on vulgarity and meanness, you can't sit on greatness and sublimity; With hypocrisy and violence, innocence and kindness will have nowhere to sit; Sitting on selfishness and indifference, love and enthusiasm can't be accommodated. ...

With the extra chairs, you will think of a gorgeous house, seats earned by many people, and light and heavy tickets ... so you are very busy and have a heavy heart, and you don't have the ease and joy to sit down.

Tagore said that it is impossible to fly high with heavy money hanging under his wings. Similarly, with extra chairs, you can't fly, and even the fun of sitting and meditating disappears.

Sometimes, our life is like a chair on which the soul sits.