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“As long as I drag it without a medical examination, I will have no problems.”
This sentence more or less expresses people’s complex feelings about physical examinations. Worried about problems, even predicted problems in advance. In the worry about their physical condition, people follow The strategy is quite idealistic. If you don’t look at it, the problem doesn’t seem to exist.
In 2019, the China Youth Daily Social Investigation Center and the Questionnaire Network conducted a survey of 1979 18 to 35-year-olds. The results showed that 63.6% of the people had the experience of being afraid of seeing the physical examination report, 62.6% Of people said that they are usually stressed and worried about problems with the physical examination.
However, in response to worrying about the results of physical examinations, we attach great importance to health. Dr. Ding Xiang’s “2021 National Health Insight Report” found that in the three consecutive years from 2018 to the present, compared with foreign objects such as wealth, work, and interpersonal relationships, “physical health” is considered to be The most important thing in life.
It’s just that it’s one thing to think that health is important, but it seems that the specific life is another. The epidemic that will not disappear in the short term has made the employment situation more severe and it is difficult to find suitable jobs. Even if you choose 996, you will face the possibility of being “optimized” before the age of 35.
Under the huge competitive pressure, can we choose to hold off? Can we survive after resuming our pace?
Faced with the nakedness of reality and the high-intensity of life pressure, Douban has a joking: You can exchange 5 million for 10 years of life? 70% of people chose not to change. When the number at the other end was increased to 50 million, the ratio was reversed, and the number of people who changed became 64%.
The cartoonist Zhu Deyong said in “Everyone is Sick”, “Most of our lives are a kind of imitation, most of our feelings are a kind of cheapness, and most of our happiness is a kind of exchange. “So, what is the relationship between health, money, and life? Do you have to exchange health if you want to live more “happily”?
“No hitman can get out of the medical report alive”
In the definition of the World Health Organization, health refers to good physical, mental, and social conditions, not just the absence of disease or weakness.
Under this standard, few of us can meet the standard of health, and it seems to be getting farther and farther away from health. In Dr. Dingxiang’s “2021 National Health Insight Report” (hereinafter referred to as the “Report”), 98% of the public indicated that they have health-related issues Troubled.
Moreover, people who work longer have lower health expectations and self-assessment. Among them, people who work more than 12 hours have the most prominent sexual and heart problems compared to the general population. The report commented that For the “overtime party”, they are “gradually losing their health and freedom.”
However, the problem is not only in physical health. The report also shows that in all health problems, emotional problems rank first, and more than half of people worry about anxiety and depression.
This seems to be easy to verify. worldA survey conducted by the World Health Organization found that depression and anxiety have become common mental problems, and even the resulting decline in productivity will cost the global economy about $1 trillion a year.
Unhappiness is pervasive in society, but it is difficult to tell exactly which part of the problem is ——it is inevitable overtime, parents getting old and the care they need to take after they form a family Stress or long hours of work brings a strong sense of exhaustion. Although there is a certain reward, it only fails to make up for the sense of value.
We are not completely helpless under all kinds of frustrations, but the way we choose seems to be more damaging. We frequently order heavy oil and heavy salt late night snacks, constantly push the time to fall asleep, and put a lot of time on short videos. We try to make ourselves believe that life still belongs to us to some extent through the stimulation of taste buds and the allocation of leisure time.
The young Japanese scholar Takanori Fujita wrote in his “The Poor Generations” that young people are healthy and full of vitality is just a “myth”. Before the bubble economy, Japan implemented a “lifetime employment system.” Employees did not need to make too much effort and only needed to go to work step by step to maintain a certain standard of life.
But now, the protection has disappeared. Most of the jobs are “informal employment”, the working status is unstable, and the working hours are long, and the income is low. Even if you work hard, you may not get the corresponding salary or even keep your job.
Fujita also noticed that young people are under excessive pressure. Except for their physical conditions, the number of people suffering from mental illness is increasing year by year, and there is no decreasing trend.
However, these situations are intentionally or unintentionally ignored by society and the workplace. Young people are regarded as symbols of health. In their eyes, young people do not seem to have health problems, and companies that can allow them to take time off to go to the hospital for treatment.” Quite rare”.
Japanese scholar Kawanishi Yuko added from another angle. Her research found that in Japan is most likely to cause mental illness,Suicide and heart problems are “economic problems” caused by unemployment. And this does not mean that people with jobs can avoid it.
If people are not unemployed, but are deeply involved in fierce competitive pressures, become a screw in the workplace, unable to cope with expectations from their families, and unable to find their own sense of value and accomplishment, they may also have Severe depression and suicidal behavior.
Under the imaginable predicament, work and health seem to have become a dualistic relationship. If you want to achieve the ideal life model through the rewards of work, you must sacrifice health. However, physical and mental changes are often silent, and when you notice a problem, it may be too late.
The final result is likely to be that neither live a life that meets expectations, but also lose the most important physical capital.
After all, compared with visible and tangible rewards, health is hidden in our body, it is not easy to find, and it is not easy to be valued.
We are reduced to “a negligible amount”
In the opinion of Julian and others at the Cancer Prevention Research Center of the University of Rhode Island, health is a universally recognized value(a universal value)< /span>. In fact, health can also be said to be the biggest asset of pension. In situations where the cost of treatment is high, retirement is delayed or becomes a trend, staying healthy may be one of the most important things we can do for ourselves.
But on the other hand, compared with money, health seems to be less important. For example, in the example at the beginning of this article, if there is enough money, a large number of people are willing to “take money for life”.
Although it is difficult for us to define how much money is “enough”, and this replacement may be just a joke, we have to admit that just such a metaphor has become a huge emotional outlet for people.
The huge number allows us to imagine the beautiful life and rich experience behind it. However, similar thoughts are full of danger. It establishes an inevitable connection between experience and money, and even equates experience with money itself. Only money can exchange experience.
From skydiving, diving, climbing Mount Everest, to buying a house and car, it’s important to lifeExperience, and even the free exploration of life, have been narrowed into a few label-like imaginations, and finally solidified into a certain commodity, and the only means to realize these desires and pursuits is money.
Money can not only satisfy their search for experience, but also give meaning to the experience and become their capital and ticket to enter a certain social circle.
In the opinion of German sociologist Simmel, “Money becomes the common denominator(common denominator) for measuring the value of all things. It is rude The land ignores and empties the core of things and their uniqueness, but only promotes their useful value. In the metropolis, these two greatly dominate and distort people’s perception.”
People recognize the uniqueness of money, digitize everything, and give accurate value to everything. In the end, life has become a part that can be quantified and valued.
However, can the experience really be purchased with money? Is health and life worth sacrificing?
Simmel gave a corresponding response, “In any case, the excessive development of this objective culture will make the individual more and more dissatisfied. He has become a negligible amount.”
“In front of a huge and unstoppable organization composed of various things and forces, he became a cog. This organization gradually took away from him related to progress, spirituality, and value. Everything. The result of the operation of these forces is to transform the latter from a subjective form into a purely objective existence.”
We have turned ourselves into a ledger, an abacus and a string of numbers, and we are responsible for our own profits and losses. The best way is to make a steady profit without losing it. However, in the process of measuring everything with money, it is difficult to perceive happiness.
There is always an insurmountable gap between limited personal abilities and inflated desiresDue to many calculations, our living conditions can only become increasingly tight, and because we can’t see hope, we become more and more numb.
“Purchasing money for life” is just a brief release under high pressure life. We know that with work alone, ordinary people can hardly get that amount of money in their lifetime, return to reality, and can’t even afford to deposit one for three. Rent.
While agreeing to “take money for life”, we may ignore the logic behind it-it seems that health is the only thing we can do.
“In the wrong life, there is no right life”
It is difficult for people to perceive happiness, and there is no way out. Cars, housing, education problems and high-quality life have become the shackles on everyone. In this case, health seems to have to be a price.
In the opinion of Wu Yirui, the speaker of the ideal, “physical health and the logic of capitalism have an eternal contradiction. Most of us are probably in the middle of’perfect health’ and’death from overwork’.”
But this does not mean that we can only accept passively. Some young people have resisted. In a report in the South China Morning Post, Generation Z( Especially those born in the late 1990s to the mid-2000s) young people who refused to work overtime began to “fishing” at work, such as often going to the bathroom and staying there for a long time playing with mobile phones, or at work. Reading novels at work.
However, I have to admit that this kind of resistance is limited, and we have not yet changed the current situation of high pressure and serious involution. “fishing” can help us in the gap between work Get a respite, but can’t solve the real problem.
In Adorno’s view, “In the wrong life, there is no right life.” He emphasized that IAlthough we can’t point out what is the right life, we can recognize what is wrong. For those wrong parts, even if we did not directly participate, we only fled for a short time, and a short escape will not make us live better.
“Only when the consciousness is unimpeded, that is, when you have the will, and only when the theory is unimpeded, can general correct practice activities be possible.”
Fromm provides a possibility for “correct life”. In his view, a healthy lifestyle is “re-existence” rather than “re-possession.” “Possession” will aggravate the degree of alienation of the individual, and ultimately surrender completely to objects and desires.
And “for the survival mode of life, belief is mainly not the belief in a certain idea(although this kind of belief will also become an idea) , but an inherent value orientation, an attitude. It is better to live in faith than to have faith.”
Although the power of discourse is limited, system changes are difficult to make, and in the short term, people will face pressure in life, but similar theories can also give us a certain degree of relief.
Perhaps, there is only one thing to bear in mind, and that is that We are always the subject of our own lives and have the initiative to solve problems-giving ourselves the opportunity to experience life seriously, and it may not be considered bad .
If you see more and more people around you are involved in public examinations and professional examinations, smaller and smaller children are attending cram schools, people are taking less and less rest, but more and more discussions The speculation in coins and funds has caused a sense of anxiety-can anyone have a life?
Then, why not go for a walk in the street, you may feel as if you are a world away, but this is indeed the real world. There may be very few people who are rich and wealthy, but everyone is still alive seriously. And cried and laughed into the world of fireworks.
Ending
Health problems are just a sign of unhappiness, and unchangeable life difficulties are the root of the problem.
But maybe we don’t have to be so pessimistic. I really like what Yoshioka Riho said in “Thirteen Journeys”, “It’s a beautiful thing to live while feeling the changes of the seasons.Good thing. “
“Thirteen Tour”
This may be what we need to do. Feel the sun and grass in the summer, feel the smell of the morning, afternoon and evening in the air, feel the refreshing watermelon and cold drinks, and then wait for the next season to come and experience it seriously it.
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