Ideal is the driving force of life, but if people cling to it too much, it will become a shackle of life, and your life will feel heavy, and finally crumble and die in the burden of constant disappointment. Remember the adage "the ordinary is the great". All great things are born in the accumulation of "ordinary" process.
One day a king went out into his garden alone. To his great surprise, all the plants and trees were withered, and the garden was completely deserted. Later the king realized that the oak tree was not so tall and straight as the pine tree, so it died of weariness. The pine trees died of envy because they could not produce as much fruit as the grapes. Grapes? And lamented that he, too, could not stand upright, and have such beautiful flowers as the peach tree, and died; The morning glory was sick because it sighed that it could not smell as sweet as the lilac. All the other plants, trees and flowers, were drooping and listless because of their own commonness. Only the tiniest grass was growing luxurantly.
The king looked at the almost insignificant, almost ordinary heart - ease and asked, "little heart - ease, how is it that you are so brave, so cheerful and so never disappointed when all the other plants are dying?
The grass answered, "I am not at all disappointed, O king. For I know that if you wanted a banyan tree, or a pine tree, or a vine, or a peach tree, or a morning glory, or a lilac, or something, you would have the gardener plant them, and I know that what you wanted me to do was to make me a little peace of mind plant.
You may think that the idea of being a "unknown grass" is too negative. Some bright and ambitious young people always look down their noses at those who live an ordinary life. They consider them "worthless," "insignificant," and "uninteresting." And they find their lives boring when they fail and do nothing, when life is as ordinary as the rest of us. There is a lot of trouble.
