Fatigue and Weariness

One day my elder brother said to me: what is a cause you love? A cause you love is the kind of cause that may make you feel fatigued, but will never make you feel weary. This sentence left a deep impression on me; no one had ever told me so clearly where the dividing line between loving and not loving lies.

Whether it is loving a cause or loving a person, the principle is the same. Real life requires constant toil; it may make us fatigued with regard to the cause or person we love, but after we have rested, we find that what we still love is still those things and those people, because they never make us feel weary.

The emotion of weariness is terrifying; weariness makes us wish to get away at once. Only toward a cause or person we do not love does such an emotion arise. We often say that perseverance is victory, but the premise of perseverance is love. Perseverance without love is nothing but self-deception, and it will never persist into any good result.

If a person can live his whole life with the person he loves and do the cause he loves, that must be the happiest life in the human world. For such a life, though it too requires toiling for food and clothing, the spirit will always be joyful. Such a life is sunny and positive.

Misanthropes are mostly those who cannot find the things they want to do or the people they truly love. A true dream-chaser does not easily develop misanthropy. Love for one's dream and for life makes him or her live with passion.