A few days ago I read a newspaper article about the value of life. It recounts such a story:In order to escape the burden of life, a young and beautiful female academician would marry a man who is out at the elbows rather than struggle for a better life. Unfortunately, she finallydied just because that her husband couldn't afford for the expensive operation fees. It is believedthat all the people who read this article will feel sorry for this girl's death. In the mean time,her untimely death also cause us to think deeply the value of life.
Maybe the girl has never thought that she would end up being dead. However, she died justbecause she had no courage to face pressures of daily living. I remember that the famousnovelist Milan Kundera has ever said such words in his book 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being':"being" is full of "unbearable lightness" because each of us has only one life to live: "Einmal ist keinmal" ("once is nonce", i.e., "what happened once might as well have never happenedat all"). Therefore, each life is ultimately insignificant; every decision ultimately does not matter. Since decisions do not matter, they are "light": they do not tie us down. But at the same time, the insignificance of our decisions - our lives, or being - is unbearable. Hence, "the unbearable lightness of being".
Supposing that a man lives in the world without any pressure, his life would become dull.There would be no meaning to his life. Heavy life is not always a bad thing, vice versa. Do not spend much time or energy analyzing whether your life is heavy or easy. Facing thepressures of daily life is the best way to create the value of life.
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