Chapter 78 dedication and expression

We grow our own vegetables, not just to save money or avoid pesticide contamination, we express ourselves in the care of our vegetables. A professor bought an old Victorian house for $15,000, but he spent another $50,000 on it.A real estate broker told the professor that the market price of the house was only 15,000 yuan, far less than what he had spent.But the price tag is not the only consideration for the professor, he said: Preserving this house has become my life's work, so that I can not only draw life from the past, but also leave something for the future. A person who moved from the city to the countryside said: We grow our own vegetables, not just to save money or avoid pesticide pollution, we express ourselves in the photos of vegetables.Vegetables that we can’t finish or don’t want to keep, we give away or exchange with others. I think this is a very humane activity. It is good for our hearts and stomachs. If we are lucky, it can also do our community. contribute.

A couple in their early forties with a severely disabled child.The couple later sold their house in the city, gave up their jobs in the city, and moved with their children to a small community in the countryside, populated by disabled children and their parents, who together form a Informal mutual aid societies.The couple said that apart from making a living in the city and having a child who needs extra care from others, they gave up urban life and moved to this new community because they both deeply felt the need to share community life with others. needs.Here they find peace, warmth and fulfillment.

Excessive materialization and technologicalization have made life superficial and calculated, and the relationship between people and people, and people and things has been stained with instrumental manipulation.The value of material and technology inhibits the value of dedication and expression in life, but more and more people are willing to sacrifice the value of material and technology. Although this sacrifice often means the loss of measurable things such as money and status, but On the other hand, they have obtained incalculable spiritual gains.