In your life, things rarely go as planned. If you refuse to face this pain head-on, constantly blaming others and trying to change external circumstances for happiness, it’s simply unrealistic. True masters first manage their emotions before tackling the situation; they analyze their mindset before analyzing the circumstances. Let go, stay calm, be forgiving, and practice gratitude — that’s how you become a truly powerful person.
How truly powerful people act
Silence
Sometimes, when misunderstood, you choose silence over argument. Not everyone needs to understand you, so why explain yourself to the world? Just be your authentic self.
Calmness
When you hit rock bottom, everyone tells you to be strong and happy. Strength is essential, but happiness? That might be asking too much. Who can be cheerful when they’re bleeding and bruised? But you can at least be calm. View the situation calmly and handle what needs handling with composure.
Bend down
When disagreements with others escalate into verbal clashes, go home and mop the floor. Grab a rag, bend down, kneel, and scrub every corner of the floor before you clean. Sometimes you must learn to bend down, for this act cultivates humility. As you labor with your body, you also polish your own spirit.
Stop thinking “What if?”
You say life is a long road with countless crossroads, forever demanding choices. Choosing your major, your career, whether to marry or have children — each decision shapes a wholly different life. You also say, “If only I had done this back then, things wouldn’t be like this now…” But let’s stop saying things like that. There’s no true right or wrong at each crossroad. If you see life as your own unique creation, you won’t keep looking back, wondering what if you’d chosen differently.
Strive
Strolling through the woods, you see wisteria twining around a tree trunk, moved by this quiet beauty. You wonder: what storms might the future bring? Perhaps the vine will snap, the tree will fall. Possibly Heaven will wither, earth will grow old. Then you think: let time freeze at this moment — frozen, it becomes eternal. If eternity holds this quiet beauty, whatever trials the future holds will already be comforted and repaid. Strive for success or failure — at least it was beautiful.
Maintain simplicity
Overthinking often complicates your life. Though you live in the present, you dwell on the past and fret over the future. Live simply in the now — for the present holds no judgments of right or wrong, truth or falsehood. Treat your life as a dream to be lived, and dream well in the moment.
Relax occasionally
After eating too many healthy foods, sometimes you crave duck tongues, salt-and-pepper fried chicken, or spicy crayfish. Occasionally, you don’t want to live every moment with such purpose. Life truly doesn’t need to be so tightly bound.
Return to calm
There was a time when you felt low, too lazy even to pull back the curtains and see the sunlight outside. You also forgot to water the jasmine plant on the windowsill, which needed water every day. After who knows how long, one day you finally regain your beautiful mood and remember your jasmine. Oh my, poor thing — was it still alive?
Trembling, you pull back the curtains only to find her graceful form, her delicate fragrance wafting toward you. It turns out that during all those days you’d forgotten to water her, heaven had never forgotten to shower her with rain and dew. Many things quietly unfold beyond your sight, quietly arranging themselves. Heaven creates all things. Heaven nurtures all things — there’s genuinely nothing to worry about. All you need to do is be your best self, leaving no regrets.
Rational thinking
Rationality defines a person, keeping the mind clear at all times, uninfluenced by others or emotions. It excels at untangling complex realities to reveal clear patterns and threads. Employing knowledge and strategy, it achieves goals efficiently. No matter how deep the valley fate pushes you into, it still possesses the courage and ability to bounce back upward.
Cultivate optimism
In life, misfortune often outweighs fortune. If we cannot confront this pain, instead wallowing in self-pity and seeking happiness solely through external changes, it is unrealistic. Therefore, regardless of our circumstances or setbacks, rather than complaining about external conditions, it is better to adjust our mindset calmly. It works better than anything else!
Translated by Eva and edited by Amanda
Follow us on X, Facebook, or Pinterest
