A couple weeks ago, I ordered a new toilet, intended to replace the old one in my house. The installation service promised by the vendor postponed again and again. I've been upset about it so I complained on JD.com. The vendor finally sent someone to get the installation done. I had previously wrote an article "An unhappy shopping experience on JD.com" about that.
After the toilet was installed, I paid an extra reasonable fee to the man who installed it according to the usual practice. The story should have ended here. But after a few days, I noticed that the new toilet sometimes can not flush very clean, not every time though. It made me feel buying a lottery whenever I use it. I remember that before buying, I felt the product quite attractive by reading its introduction. There were a lot of pingpong-like stuff in the picture, showing it could flush them down, which was convincible. But the fact is that it just doesn't work well.
Now I began to miss my old toilet. The main reason I replaced it was just because my mother suffers from lumbar disc herniation, so a high waist toilet is better for her. No one expected that a higher one would do a lousy job.
Some time ago a friend said he bought a new vacuum cleaner. He was also convinced by the introduction of the product in great detail and comprehensiveness, making people mistakenly think the vacuum cleaner is very powerful. There was a nice picture that vacuum cleaner can even suck up a golf ball! ! ! You can't help but shocked, figuring to buy one immediately. After the purchase, the vacuum cleaner worked fine at the beginning but shortly afterwards it began to deteriorate. It ended up with leaking while working. What on earth is going on?
Experts knows that you can't tell if a vacuum cleaner is a good one just by its power. That make sense. You probably use the vacuum cleaner mainly to clean dust, hair and things like that at home. No one would suck up a golf ball, right? How about even if you can do that? It's meaningless. With the filter, nothing big can go through. The higher power just consumes more electricity.
After you reading this article, you probably won't make a decision just by power when you consider buying a vacuum cleaner next time. After all, what you want is to clean up dusts and hairs, and power just can't offer much help to achieve that.
Another example is that, the main purpose of buying a toilet, as I mentioned before, is it can do a clean flush. Other properties like height, color, style, materials, technological design, etc, should not surpass the main factor. Don't put the cart before the horse.
Think through this problem and you will understand. In fact, is our life in the same place? If you ask someone about the purpose of life, I believe many people will say that they wish they are in good health, have a happy family, or live a happy life. However, in daily life, we often sacrifice our own health, ignore our children's education, forget to visit our parents, ignore to take care of the feelings of our loved one, alienate the relationship of friends... All these will be covered by excuses like one should work hard when I'm still young, although what we actually face is the pressure of life. But do we really remember what we pursue in the end?
We make our efforts to pursuit happiness and joy the entire life. Sadly, we often lost ourselves in the stream of life.
Original post written by @rivalhw: 你这么拼命努力，究竟在追求什么？
Translator: @kidult00
家里前一段时间更换了个新马桶，因为商家先前承诺的后期上门安装迟迟未到位，因此中间还闹了点小风波，我在京东上申请了售后纠纷，商家迫于压力最终派人上门并安装好，我先前有写过一篇文章《一次不太愉快的京东家装购物经历》，有闲暇时间的朋友可以翻阅下。
马桶安装好后，我按行业惯例支付了安装师傅额外的合理费用，事情到这里本应就结束了，但过了几天后，我发现个新的问题，就是这个新购买的马桶，有时冲水时不能冲的很干净，但又不是经常出现这个问题，时有时无，让人每次冲水时都有种抓阄中奖的感觉，颇感不太放心。我记得当时购买之前，看到商家对这产品的介绍是很强大的，配图是放了一大堆乒乓球类似的东西，(讲)都可以冲水下去的，给人的感觉威力是很强大，但用过之后才发现有冲水不是很干净的现象。
这时候我开始怀念起原先那个旧马桶，当时更换那个旧马桶的主要原因不为别的，只是因为我妈腰椎盘突出，不习惯于低腰那种，所以才特地更换了个高腰的马桶，谁知道到最后马桶是高了，但是(主要)效果却反而不如原先那个旧的，至少那个旧的之前几乎从未出现类似(冲水不干净)问题。
前阵子有朋友说他家里买了款新吸尘器，当时闲聊时跟我说，他也是看到商家对产品的介绍很详细，很全面，让人看后误以为这款产品(吸尘器)威力很强大，其中商家对产品有副配图是那款吸尘器甚至可以吸起高尔夫球！！！你没看错，吸尘器可以吸起高尔夫球！让人看后不由很震撼，这威力，杠杠滴，赶快给家里买一款先。可当这吸尘器买回来后，用过一段时间后，刚开始效果还不错，但没过多久吸尘效果就开始变差，到最后效果简直是一塌糊涂，几乎是边吸边漏，这究竟是怎么回事呢？
内行的人都知道，吸尘器可不仅仅只是功率大就算厉害，你试想下，你在家里使用吸尘器，主要是用用来吸尘土、毛发等一些东西，没人会在家里吸高尔夫球这么变态的东西吧？更关键的是，即便你能吸起高尔夫球，又能如何？一旦过滤网挡住，再大功率都没用，反而空消耗而已！
当你看了这篇文章，下次你再购买吸尘器，估计就不会再冲着功率大、吸力大这个表面看似有用，实则跟你真实想要的效果相差十万八千里，你其实真正要的只是能把家里的如灰尘、毛发等吸干净而已。
再比如我之前购买马桶，主要目的一定是能够很好地冲水(干净)先，其次才是其它的需求比如高腰、颜色、款式、材料、做工等，但如果你忽略了主要需求 ，而先奔着其它非主要需求先来，这不是本末倒置么。
想清楚了这个问题，你就会明白了。其实我们人生又何尝不是这样呢？你若要问起人生的追求目的，相信很多人都会回答是身体健康、家庭幸福、甚至生活快乐等，但在生活中，我们却往往在面对眼前或迫于生活的压力，年轻时给自己美其名曰好好努力，牺牲了自己的健康，忽略了孩子的教育，忘记了回家看望父母，忽视了夫妻情感，淡化了朋友友情。。。却忘记了自己最终要追求的到底是什么？
我们终其一生的努力，无非都是在追求幸福和快乐，而我们，却往往在生活中渐渐迷失了自己。。。
We all try hard to pursue a better life. But after many years, when we are living a life style we want, we will envy the past days when we were trying.
So cherish what we have now.
"We make our efforts to pursuit happiness and joy the entire life. Sadly, we often lost ourselves in the stream of life." YES. Therefore, I ask myself two questions every day: what is more important in my life? What is the most important then? This process help me calm down to follow my heart.
Appreciate the present moment.
This moment will never come again. And there is always something precious about every moment.
We will both try not to lost ourselves.
The article starts with tiny little things from daily life and ends up with the topic of how we should behave in our life. I think this idea is quite brilliant.
Btw: I usually like to buy things, for the pursuit of appearance as well as discount. At that time, I gnore the most essential two questions: Am I really need these things, and what's the ultimate goal of buying these things?
We may think more when life gets rough. I will try to keep everything simple.
yeah, we should always put what we want in the first place, 不忘初心！！
Enjoy your life
it's never too late to learn this is what i strive for
这么努力因为的到组织认可，加油
共勉。
看清楚重点，是最重要的
是的 分清主次
Ultimately we all strive for ‘a life worth living’.
mua~
we should never stop learning, because when we stop learning, we stop our progress.
indeed.
投稿到cn-reader的你肯定是文学爱好者！
摄影绘画也都可以啊。
Follow你是我最正确的决定...
mua ~
送你一个么么哒
了解...
我之前也是看冲大量乒乓球的视频，才换的马桶，结果存在跟你说的一样的问题。
人生不也是这样么？通过努力得到了，之后才发现其实并没有想象的那么好。
是滴 或许应验了那句得不到的永远是最好的。