When doing things, the first thing you need is a clear conscience. This will allow you to sleep soundly and avoid making mistakes on matters of principle. If you truly make a mistake, you should do your best to rectify it, not hide or try to forget. Humans are easily forgetful, but also a species with good memories. Peace of mind is the ultimate destination; being able to answer yourself honestly leads to a more relaxed life.
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I have eight characters that carry a lot of weight: I feel we currently have a deficit in morality, a loss of humanity. Times always progress through a cycle of identifying and solving problems, a logic loop of thoroughly resolving issues. You need to be patient and wait for its reshuffling. For a country like China, many things are a slow process of reshuffling, so don’t be pessimistic during the change and the reshuffling.
These past few days, China has been battling two typhoons – one invisible and the other visible. The invisible typhoon is the vaccine, which impacts the dams of our inner security. The visible typhoon rarely lands in Shanghai and then affects Beijing and Tianjin; it’s unprecedented for three municipalities to face a typhoon together in decades. That’s beside the point. What you need to think about now is whether you can thrive on your own – you’ve undergone significant changes, you have many answers, but if the surrounding environment doesn’t change, will you be happy? I have eight words that are quite weighty: we currently have a moral deficit and a loss of humanity; this is the biggest deficit and the greatest loss.
But what people expect is for the safety concerns of the vaccine to be completely resolved, just like the milk powder incident back then. So sometimes you need to look at history and understand how the establishment and formation of a complete legal framework for the US FDA is also closely related to the unsafe milk powder and dairy products. The Sanlu milk powder incident forced China to make great changes in the dairy industry. While I can’t say the vaccine situation will be continuous, I hope this one will bring it to a halt. You need to know that progress always moves forward through a cycle of problems arising, being solved, and then completely resolved – otherwise, what’s the point of journalists? What’s the point of citizens?
So I think the only thing each of us can do is to care. But the problem is that Chinese people are too easily forgetful. Like what I just said, after hitting someone’s car, we stop on the side of the road and run away; no one stops us. A large proportion of our neighbors and colleagues are like this. So it needs to be changed slowly. And as ordinary citizens, all we can do is pay attention and not forget. It’s not that there’s a lack of something – when people aren’t able to eat enough or wear warm clothes, talking about ideals doesn’t have much persuasive power. But once they are well-fed and clothed, and we’ve become the world’s leading diabetes nation, the leading high blood pressure nation, and many other “number one” nations, you see Chinese people starting to run (exercise), Chinese people starting to lose weight. I ask the ladies here, how many of you haven’t experienced the harsh reality that if I don’t eat a big meal, I won’t have the energy to diet? That’s a small transformation.
It’s the same with the spiritual level we talked about. When you’re well-fed and warmly clothed, and you start exercising or dieting, your spiritual needs gradually increase. For example, I used to smoke, but when I started running, it just happened that one day I realized I hadn’t smoked in over 20 days, and I haven’t smoked since. Of course, I won’t say I completely quit—that feels too ceremonial. It’s not excluded that I might still have two or three cigarettes within a year. When your lifestyle changes, many things will change along with it. I think for Chinese people, you need to be patient and wait for the reshuffling.
More and more people feel unhappy, but they won’t indulge in their unhappiness. While depression is on the rise, isn’t it also true that more and more people are seeking positive ways to live? This leads to a growth in things related to the spirit. So don’t be pessimistic; look at how you see the same thing. I often see drivers cutting in line on the street, which makes me frustrated. But then, in an instant, I become optimistic because the queue on the other side is much longer than before. This is just such a process. All of you here are willing to come to this place and chat about so many useless things on a rainy evening – isn’t that also a fun thing?
Isn’t this also a kind of transformation, so there are many things that need to be thought about in a different way. Of course, I think there will be many things that need to grow slowly in the future. For example, you said entrepreneurship – who isn’t an entrepreneur throughout their life? Everyone’s life is essentially entrepreneurial. We’ve imbued “entrepreneurship” with too much of a sense of trendiness. In reality, entrepreneurship has always existed. Wasn’t Su Shi an entrepreneur? Wasn’t Li Bai an entrepreneur? There will be many creations throughout one’s life, ultimately creating their own brand. It doesn’t matter if most don’t succeed; as long as you live a life with enough flavor and feel it was worthwhile. What I think China particularly lacks now is a good value system that views failure as another form of success. Chinese people only accept successful outcomes but don’t accept a “good” failure as a kind of success.
I think that’s very difficult. So you find many reasons why Chinese soccer doesn’t play well, and one of those reasons is that everyone is afraid to lose the ball if they pass it to someone else, even if it’s just themselves. Without that kind of approach, of course, this is only a small reason. So I feel that after reaching my age, past 30, I wrote about not being in a hurry in the preface, but now at 50 there’s a little bit of urgency because time goes by so quickly, so fast, and many things you expect haven’t become reality yet. But on the other hand, it is understood that for a country like China, many things are a slow process of shuffling. You see your parents; some were like traffic lights didn’t exist, but occasionally you see their children pulling them along. It’s changing, it’s shuffling. So I think you need to have some patience.