Everyone has desires, and desires are endless. Once one of people's desires is satisfied, higher desires will inevitably appear. Blindly pursuing greed and forgetting one's own nature often makes people indulge in material desires and never know how to return.

The rich man's dog was lost on a walk, so the rich man posted a notice on the TV station: If a dog is lost, he will be paid 10,000 yuan for returning it. Attached is a color photo of the puppy. There is a steady stream of dog givers, but none of them belong to the rich man's family. The rich man's wife thought that the person who actually found the dog must have thought that the money was too little, and that it was a pure Irish famous dog. So the rich man changed the reward to 20,000 yuan. The beggar who found the dog did not see the first notice in time, and was very excited when he knew that he could get 20,000 yuan for returning the puppy. He had never had such good luck in his life.

Early the next morning, the beggar was holding the dog, ready to collect the 20,000 yuan reward. When he passed the big TV screen of a large general merchandise company, he saw the notice again, but the bounty had become 30,000 yuan. The beggar stopped and thought for a while. The bounty was growing fast. How much was the dog worth? He changed his mind and went back to his shabby cave and tied the dog there again. On the fourth day, the bounty was indeed up again.

For the next few days, the beggar did not leave the big screen, and when the reward went up to the astonishment of the citizens of the whole city, the beggar returned to his cave. But the dog was dead. Because he ate fresh milk and roast beef in the rich man's house, he couldn't stand what the beggar picked up from the trash can.

As the saying goes, "A person passes by and leaves a name, and a wild goose passes by." No one wants to live in obscurity for the rest of their lives. The so-called "everyone has their own aspirations" means this. However, in the process of seeking fame and fortune in life, it is still necessary to remember: be a person with less desire, a little more detachment, and don't be covered by fame and fortune.

Song Zhiwen, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, had a nephew named Liu Xiyi, a very talented young and promising poet. One day, Liu Xiyi wrote a poem called "Singing on behalf of the white head", and went to Song Zhiwen's house to ask his uncle for guidance. When Liu Xiyi read that "the ancients did not return to Luoyang East, but today people still love falling flowers and phoenixes; years and years are similar, and years and years are different." Song Zhiwen couldn't help but praise it again and asked if this poem had ever been seen by others. Liu Xiyi told him that he had just finished writing it and had never seen it before. Song Zhiwen then said: "The two sentences in your poem, 'Year after year, flowers are similar, and years and years are different.' It is really lovely. If others have never seen it, let me have it." Xiyi said, "These two sentences are the eyes in my poem. If you go away, the whole poem will be tasteless, absolutely not."

Song Zhiwen thought to himself that as soon as this poem came out, it would be famous all over the world, and he must have his ideas. So he had evil intentions and ordered his subordinates to kill Liu Xiyi. Later, Song Zhiwen was convicted and was first exiled to Qinzhou, then ordered to commit suicide by the emperor.

All wise people know how to restrain their own selfish desires and can follow the human nature. They can normally care about themselves, develop themselves, and realize their dreams. Only when everyone cherishes himself, loves himself, and respects himself can our society be full of vitality and laughter.

Folks have a good way to catch sparrows, tied to a rope on a wooden stick, with a stick to support the bamboo plaque, the plaque sprinkled with grains, once the sparrow is in to eat the grains, as long as you pull the stick, the sparrow will be covered under the plaque difficult to escape.

Someone decided to use this method to catch sparrows. After sprinkling the grains, a group of sparrows fell and began pecking happily. He counted 15 in total. Four went under the plaque, then nine, then 13, and he stared at the two sparrows outside. If they went in too, he would win big. He was thinking, a sparrow slipped out. He regretted that he should have pulled the rope just now. If another one went in, I would pull, he thought. But two more came out, and when he tried to pull the rope, two more ran out…

Finally, he watched the sparrows leave contentedly. There was nothing left under the plaque, including his millet.

Perhaps some people would say that "take it as soon as you see it" might lose more opportunities, but when this "good" reaches a certain limit, it doesn't matter, after all, you have already got a lot. 15 Sparrows caught 13, which is already a big victory. If you set the goal at 100% possession, it is too greedy. The result of being too greedy is often nothing.

One should know how to stop.

In many cases, it is often more important to restrain your desires at the right moment than to consume them in the end.

For some young people who are eager to achieve great success, it is particularly precious to restrain greed and stop in moderation.