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Moderation in all things,the reason is simple

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An age-old saying intended to regulate human endeavors, "Moderation in all things" is no absolute truth, but has to be applied to its proper cases. As for me, I identify two types of human endeavors: those aimed to profit from something, and those aimed to contribute to something. In endeavors of the first type, the spirit of moderation is essential. In the second, however, it is wise to practice its opposite: to have and show intense focuses.

The human is mostly a profit-seeking animal. And the shortest way to a profit is, he believes, the utilization of what is well prepared for him by nature (e. g. , natural resources), and what is prepared by other people, including one's ancestors. When we are utilizing these resources, it is always wise to practice moderation.

The reason is simple; any standing resource would get exhausted within a period of time. With moderation, you extend that period; otherwise, you quicken exhaustion. Thus, when two boys respectively get their apples, the first boy takes five bites every minute, while the second, cleverer boy takes two every minute. As a result, the first boy exhausts his apple within two minutes, but the second boy is still enjoying his far after that. And he is smiling, as the old saying goes, he laughs best who laughs last.

Well, many a human community can just be as silly as that first boy. This happens when large areas of forests, which took many hundred years to grow, are cut down and burned into charcoal, and get exhausted within years; when enormous deposits of oil, which took many million years to accumulate, are pumped up and sold to foreign countries, and get exhausted within a few decades; etc. These communities have not been practicing moderation, and will not be laughing at the end of the few years or decades.

There are cases, too, when we exert ourselves not in order to profit from something, but to help establish a profit. Again two boys respectively make their promises to make a good job pf something. The first boy fails in the first day and says he'll try the next day; when he again fails the next day, he promises to do it the third day. The second, cleverer boy has and shows intense focus on his goal, and means to gain it; thus he exerts truly hard, and goes on when getting tired, and sits up, and gets his job done far late in the night of the first day.

There are national leaders, governments, or even nations that are just as silly or wise as those boys. Before World War II, the British and French governments, when confronted with aggression from Hitler, did not keep the promise to defend their peoples, but erroneously considered it a moment for practicing moderation. They did not raise their voice when threatened, and made concessions to invaders, all in the spirit of moderation. They as a result brought disaster to their nations, and brought their own downfall.

Hence, the absolute "moderation in all things" principle is given by and for silly people, who fail to under-stand that "all things" are not the same. But "moderation in most things" is good advice, because, since humanity is mostly going after — or at least thinking about — profits, the sprit of moderation keeps them from being profit-blind. In other cases, when the human are evolved in contributing to something, "intense focus" is essential because without it many of the human endeavors can not be brought to their completion.

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