People usually look at the world from three angles: looking up, looking up, and looking down.
Looking up is the most normal and comfortable vision. It comes from a calm and normal heart. It contains maturity and self-confidence. It is not humble or arrogant, and it is not impatient or impatient. It is conducive to moving forward steadily, and it is not easy to fall into trouble. Looking up is the perspective used to look at people and things taller than us, which is the so-called high mountain. Looking up often, in terms of benefits, let us know that there are days outside the world, and there are people outside of people. If you learn from an example, you will not be arrogant like a frog at the bottom of a well. From the side effect point of view, looking up for a long time will not only make our neck ache, but also often make us feel inferior, feel that we are very small, inferior to others in everything, and always in a state of depression.
Looking down, "the mountains are small" is the angle of vision used to look at people and things lower than us. Some people are not as successful as us, their fame is not as good as us, and their social status is not as good as ours, so when we look at them, we will inevitably have contempt, snobbery and pity in our eyes. Most of the time, we often ignore them and turn a blind eye to them, because our envious eyes have been staring at those who are more successful than us, busy comparing with those rich and famous, looking jealous and sad, and exhausted.
Judging from the laws of nature, generally speaking, young people like to look up, "Young people should take care of the clouds", in their eyes, there are few people who can look up to, only those famous giants will enter their field of vision. For example, when Liu Bang saw Qin Shi Huang, he dared to say "the husband should be like this", Xiang Yu was better than him: "He can replace him." When people reach middle age, their mentality is calm, their edge is restrained, and they know that the world is not easy, they will gradually lay their eyes flat, walk on the road slowly, and run towards their goals in an orderly manner. After entering the old state, he has weathered the weather and read countless people, "I am used to seeing the autumn moon and spring breeze", and I am no longer obsessed with success and fame, feasting on feasting. In addition, I am hunched over, my back is bent, and my eyes are blurred. Naturally, I take looking down as a habit.
Of course, your mileage may vary, and some people look up to them all their lives, aiming at higher goals all their lives. He may live a very pompous and glamorous life, but he must also live a very tired and hasty life. He only cares about sieging cities one by one, but he has no time to browse the scenery and enjoy life. In fact, he is also very wronged in his life. Therefore, when we look up and are tired, we might as well look down and see those people living at the bottom of society. Although they are the same people as us, they have lower education, less income, smaller houses, less decent jobs, and inferior social status. They are always unknown. In front of them, we often have a sense of superiority, but we are usually very dismissive and rarely glance at them.
In fact, their survival wisdom and social value are no less than ours, their contributions and labor are no less than ours, and we have no reason to be proud of ourselves. Moreover, if you have frequent contact with them, there will be unexpected gains. If a white-collar worker is physically and mentally exhausted in the workplace, and when the market competition is life-and-death, take the opportunity to take a breather and look down at the street cobblers, car repairers, small merchants, and scavengers, you will think that even if you take ten or a hundred steps back, your standard of living is still higher than his. Why bother to fight for those external things?
Broadly speaking, when an official is struggling with a poor career and has not advanced to the next level, he may wish to look down at the days of his subordinates, sit at their homes, and listen to their difficulties and expectations; a boss who earns money but is still anxious about making more money can also condescend to sit at the homes of his employees to see what they are thinking about, and why they are happy; a general who is racking his brains to formulate a battle plan may wish to take a break and go to the soldiers' tents to listen to their ideas and suggestions. This trip will definitely be worthwhile. Looking down often may change our thinking, it may also soothe our impulsive hearts, and it will cool our feverish desires. We will become a normal person, rather than a money-making machine, a workplace fanatic, or a delinquent.
Looking down often, it is to rest and relax, to recharge and to decompress, which is a wise move.