What is enough in life?
What is enough in life? It's not a simple question to answer, nor is there a common answer for everyone. However, sometimes we keep asking to remind ourselves that we've been doing well!
“Those who know how to eat will be with their fill , those who know how to use a blanket to cover will be warm” is an idiom of Vietnam. This famous saying mentions that we will be happy if we know “enough”. But “enough” also is different between one person and the other, between this time and another time.
As a child, eating baked sweet potatoes in the late evening was enough, having a new shirt for Tet holiday was enough, given the burnt rice at the bottom of the pot was happy, being on the train to the hometown was so happy. As an adult, all the things such as the large villa, a brand-name wardrobe, success, richness, etc… is still not enough.
Human needs are infinite but the strength of humans is limited. Individuals have different abilities, so the results are different. Understand this in depth so that we know how to control our own, it means “enough”.
I remember having a friend who was very successful with the snack chain for students. But when she achieved it, she didn’t control her ambition. She invested in another field that she lacks knowledge in. Eventually she went bankrupt and borrowed money from a lot of people. If anyone was interested in her problem, she often answered “ I heard people said that investing in that field was profitable so I also wanted to try”. Not everyone sympathized with her shallow-mindedness, though she's 35 years old. So, was this a pity or a reproach?
From her problem, we realize that the word “enough” is felt differently in each person. This is able to be enough for one person, but it's too little for the other.
For example, you only need a bowl of rice is enough, but another needs 2 or more. Our stomachs decide our material well-being, our mindset determines the process of this decision.
For example, when we were kids, our parents used to comfort us "If you think it doesn't hurt, you will feel not hurt, if you think it hurts so much, you must feel hurt very much" We deceive our hearts, of course, the pain is gone. This life is similar, when you feel enough, everything is enough, when you see it's not enough, even if you have 10 bowls of rice to keep you from being hungry.
Greed is inherently the wrong thing. It makes people only see gold and silver everywhere. They rushed into the race to achieve what they wanted until they turned themselves into a beating and defeated. Therefore, as a woman, it is necessary to be more careful and cautious in choosing investment fields and doing it right with our capabilities. It's bad to run into areas you don't know much about. A business model that just emerges as a phenomenon and disappears like a bubble in the rain is not a good thing.
As human beings, most of us have greed, great desires, ambition. It is important that we must be alert and lucid enough to screen and manage our abilities and conditions to reach our desires or not. Just like when we receive a great gift from others, we have to see if you deserve it. In our own life, knowing enough to help us stop at the right time and avoid the dangers ahead, avoid both the consequences and regret afterwards.