过度痴迷往往是一种灾难 Excessive Obsession Is Often a Disaster

A few days ago, I saw a message online and was amazed. It's true that excessive obsession is often a disaster.

An elderly man in Handan City, Hebei Province, about seventy years old, has a hobby of winter swimming, almost in a state of obsession. In the depth of winter, the river has frozen over, but the old man still goes swimming. Even the young people put on thick cotton coats, but the old man broke through the ice in the river and still went swimming in the winter. Unfortunately, something happened in the end. Perhaps the old man couldn't find an exit underwater, or perhaps the cold water had left him numb and unconscious. Rescue workers spent several hours salvaging the old man's body before finding it.

We have no doubt about the elderly's swimming skills, nor do we doubt his physical strength, nor do we doubt his love or obsession with winter swimming, but after all, breaking through the ice on the river and swimming underwater is too dangerous. When the river surface is not frozen, one can swim in the river with his head out to breathe at any time. However, people are prone to suffer oxygen deficiency under the ice, and it is also easy to lose direction under the ice, making it difficult to find an exit.

Everything should have a limit, excessive obsession often leads to disaster.

Emotionally, a person's obsession with another person can have positive results if they are in love with each other, but if they are unrequited, it often makes them lose interest in food and drink, and even become infatuated and obsessed. Perhaps it will ultimately lead to a tragedy of martyrdom.

A peasant dreams of becoming a poet, not wanting to change the difficult life at home. He sits indoors all day writing poetry, and even uses the money his wife used to buy fertilizer and seeds to buy poetry collections. If this obsession with literature is divorced from reality, it will be a fatal blow. We should like to ask, how many people ultimately become poets by sitting indoors and writing poetry?

The book “The Plum in the Golden Vase” was once classified as a lewd book and was banned. It is said that the purpose of writing this book was to murder someone. This person likes to read obscene things, and those who want to harm him have found someone to write such a book full of obscene content, with venom mixed in the characters printed on the book. When this person was flipping through a book, he dipped his fingers in saliva and flipped through each page, inhaling the venom into his body. Eventually, he died from poisoning.

Being proactive is a good thing, but we must act within our means and consider various practical factors. We cannot act unilaterally and hit the wall, we should act according to our abilities.

前几天，从网上看到一则消息，感叹万千，真的是，过度痴迷往往是一种灾难。

河北省邯郸市的一位老者，大概七旬许，有着冬泳的爱好，近乎一种痴迷的状态了。数九寒天，河水都结冰了，可这位老人依旧去游泳。连年轻人都穿上了厚厚的棉衣，可这位老人砸开河里的冰仍然去冬泳。不幸的事最终发生了，许是老人在水下找不到出口了，许是冰冷的水将老人冻得麻木而失去了知觉，救援人员打捞了几个小时才找到了老人的尸体。

我们毫不怀疑老人的游泳技术，也不怀疑老人身体的硬朗，更不怀疑老人对冬泳的爱好或者说是痴迷，可毕竟砸开河面上的冰下去游泳，实在是危险太大了。河面不结冰的情形下，人在河里游泳可随时探出脑袋来呼吸，可人在冰下容易缺氧，况且在冰下容易失去方向感，很难找到出口了。

凡事都应该有个度，过度痴迷往往会招致灾难。

感情上，一个人对另一个人的痴迷，若是两情相悦，会产生积极的结果，可若是单相思，常常使人茶饭不思，甚至神魂颠倒、走火入魔。说不定，最后造成殉情的悲剧。

一个农民梦想着当一名诗人，不想着改变家里艰苦的生活，整日里坐在屋里写诗，甚至把妻子用来买化肥种子的钱拿来买诗集了。这种对文学的痴迷如果脱离了实际，那将是一种致命的打击。试问，有几个人靠坐在屋里写诗最终成为诗人？

《金瓶梅》这部书曾被列为淫书而被封，据说写这本书的目的是为了谋害一个人。此人喜欢看淫秽的东西，想害他的人便找人写了这样一部充满淫秽内容的书，印在书上的字迹中掺杂了毒液。此人翻书时，用手指蘸着唾液一页页翻看，也就将毒液吸进到了体内，最后中毒而亡。

积极进取是一件好事，但一定要量力而行，要考虑相关诸多实际因素，不可一意孤行，一头撞到南墙上不回头。