The Road to Life: Shame is an elective

In the early 1980s, Cao Yu, who was over the ages, was a dramatist at home and abroad. One time, American colleague Arthur Miller came to Beijing to direct a new script. As an old Cao Yu, he invited him to his home. At the break before lunch, Cao Yu suddenly took a framed book from the bookshelf with a letter written by the painter Huang Yongyu. Cao Yu recited it to Arthur Miller and the presence. We. This is a letter that is harsh and unreasonable. The letter reads: "I am not the drama after your liberation, neither. Your heart is not in the drama, you lose the great psychic treasure, you are The position is wrong! The proposition is not consolidated, not meticulous, and the deductive analysis is not thorough enough. In the past, there are countless exquisite rests, beats, and hot and cold arrangements. The slang of the basket disappeared..."

Arthur Miller later wrote an article detailing his confusion at the time: "This letter criticizes Cao Yu, but it is not very much but very fierce, and it is also mixed with obvious humiliation. However, Cao Yu was excited when he read the letter. I really don't understand Cao Yu's respectful devotion to this letter in the book. Now, when I read it to me in a grateful tone, what did he think?" Arthur Miller's sorrow is taken for granted. After all, it is too rare to let others understand and accept that the letters that others have humiliated are in the booklet of the frame, and they are full of gratitude to others. But what Arthur Miller didn't know was: This is Cao Yu's sobriety and sincerity. Although he is already a well-known drama, he does not care too much for his own feathers - honor and fame - like others. In this "stupid" move, the essence of the disclosure is that Cao Yu has interpreted this humiliation into a true repentance of artistic defects. The shame letter at this time was already a precious gift to him, so he would like to thank the public for this humiliation.

On the long road, we can think of it as a big classroom. The difference is that some courses you can't make choices yourself. Whether it is rich or not, the level of intelligence, the moving or ugly appearance, this innate factor can be named as a "compulsory course" because it cannot be defined and reversed by ourselves. And other environments or encounters that we have to face the day after tomorrow, we can name it "elective course" - such a course you can show your will and action in your own way, choose the degree of completion of this "course" in your own way. . Shunyi and humiliation are undoubtedly an elective course. Those who are narrow-minded will interpret it as a burden, while those who are open-minded will regard it as an alias of "", thank you for humiliation, and extract their shortcomings and defects from humiliation. To perfect yourself with shame - Cao Yu is the best evidence.