Hong Yiting: As long as you live better than me

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When the material living standard of most people is not low, if the collective definition of "good life" in this society is so narrow, I am afraid that in the upward space of self -limitation, it is not conducive to stimulating the aggressive and aggressive minds and the younger generation.Putty.

After the New Year, I started to give my children Zhang Luo's new shoes.When I sent them to school, I also accidentally paid attention to the style of the shoes on their classmates' feet. Suddenly, I found that the two or three -year -old children are now wearing unsuccessful brand -name sneakers.The little feet grow fast. In just a few months, the shoes have not been bad, and the feet have not been stuffed, but the "short life" of the shoes obviously does not block the parents pay for expensive shoes for children.

When I was a kid, I had the first pair of so -called brand -name sneakers when I was a kid. Nowadays, the children's roads have not stabilized, but they are already all over.Interestingly, when I told my mother that the children's shoes could not wear new ones for a while, so I do n’t need to buy too expensive. I do n’t know how long it ’s a long time before I have the first pair of famous sneakers.I just learned to walk, but I do n’t know how to express their shoes and uncomfortable. Do n’t you buy better quality, make your children feel comfortable, and have a good posture for the development and walking of the feet?

The improvement of eating and drinking and our earlier pursuit of good quality directly reflect the overall improvement of Singapore's social living standards; after solving the basic living needs such as food and clothing, we are now looking at comfort and brand.The Singapore Policy Research Institute just released a survey report for the 1010 Singaporeans who aged 21 years before the New Year of the lunar calendar. On average, more than 60 % of the respondents felt that it was better than adolescents, and it was even more time -to -green.Of the 55 -year -old elderly people, 70 % of the elderly have obviously realized their upward improvement.Judging from the span of time, it is not difficult to understand why the older generation who has experienced Singapore's change from independence to today will have a deeper experience in the current good days.

To be honest, from the perspective of various people's investigation and objective data, the overall success of Singapore society is beyond doubt, and we should cherish and gratitude through this time.However, the problem is that when our start has been "just with shoes", when it is promoted to high -quality brand -name sneakers, how to maintain upward flow, and we can continue to go to the next level.Essence

Every generation hopes that the next generation is better than yourself, and it is better to spend better than the previous generation.Therefore, each generation always does not hesitate to invest in resources to cultivate the next generation, want to realize their wishes, and meet the expectations of the next generation, so that they have better conditions and greater opportunities to surpass their generation.It's just that if such a good intention is over, it is easy to disguise a sense of entities, which makes the cared generation regarded all good things taken for granted, so that the attitude of self -spurness and struggling.

People often say that "first generation of entrepreneurship, second -generation defense, and third -generation defeat", this "rich three generations" principle, how much the third generation essential weaknesses that grew up in excellent material conditions.If you don't advance, you will retreat.

Back to key issues: When the benchmark has risen, how can we keep moving up?Thirty or forty years later, when we conducted the same survey again, would there be more than half of the Chinese people felt that life was better than now?

In the same survey of the Institute of Policy, I also asked the most important workplace elements of all ages to understand how people think of work.Among them, groups aged 21 to 34 and 35 to 54 have chosen "paid salary" as the primary.This reflects that the younger generation is still pragmatic. After all, the good life pursued by ordinary people cannot be separated from a certain degree of material enjoyment.It's just that when most people's material living standards are no longer low, the collective definition of this society for "good life" If it is still so narrow, I am afraid that in the upward space of self -limitation, it is not conducive to stimulating the aggressive and enthusiasm of the younger generation.Essence

Imagine that if a person who has been sufficient from a small clothing, if you live better, you can only wear brighter and more luxurious and rich in the future. What is the significance of this?How much "appeal"?

From the perspective of national governance, it is impossible for governors to pay attention to and track various material development indexes, but as a collective that has seen the bottleneck of the road, we cannot make it the only indicator everyone cares.Broadening the definition and thinking of "good life" can make "good" a sustainable journey.This includes all kinds of rich assets such as psychological health, mental health, prosperity, lifelong learning, humanistic care, and giving back to the society, and build more levels of life.

Only in this way can our social development will not be limited by unrealistic pursuit of matter, but have a broader space to accumulate and create a good life with rich connotations.In this way, we do n’t know that we have put on comfortable brand -name sneakers early in the next generation, because there is no more than a better life, we need to come out by ourselves.