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看到这样一则故事。一个过着平淡生活的人，有天突然得知国外有位亲戚去世，给他留下了一笔价值千万美金的遗产 – 一家珠宝店。当他收拾好行囊，准备去接手的时候，被告知珠宝店遭遇大火，瞬间他失去了这笔即将到手的遗产。

从那以后，他郁郁寡欢。同事在哀叹他倒霉的同时，也在尽力安慰他。毕竟得知自己能继承这家店之前，他也在满足地生活。可这之后他怎么也恢复不过来，最后竟抑郁而死了。

这个故事让我想起了另一种类似的状况。有一些投资人股票账户有了几百甚至上千万利润，但没卖出。过了两三个月时间，甚至更短时间，账户不幸归还了所有盈利甚至还欠债。很多人接受不了甚至走向极端。

不管是火灾这个意外，还是因为没有及时止盈这种人为失误，都导致错失了本应到手的利好。天灾无法改变，人为失误可以振作重新再来。但终究看淡得失才是最好的方案。

人生一遭几十年。如何热烈生活，笑看得失不枉这一遭，每人都有自己的答案。所有身外之物，均是生命的馈赠，失去也无妨。若是确实很想要，便可再努力一次再一次，用往后的时间去兑换。倘若觉着时间可以用在更好的地方，大可更好地去活。不必太执念于所得，更不用太在意所失。来时身无分文，何惧离场亦然。

I came across this story recently. A guy one day learned that a relative living abroad had passed away, leaving him the legacy of a jewelry store worth about tens of millions of dollars. As he was packing up and getting ready to take over, the jewelry store caught a fire and burnt into ashes. He thus instantly lost the inheritance.

Since then, he had been thinking about the incident and regret everything that might have altered the situation. He became depressed. While lamenting his bad luck, his colleagues tried to comfort him. After all, he was living a happy life before knowing about the inheritance. But he couldn’t overcome it and eventually died of depression.

This story reminds of another similar scenario. There are investors who have made over hundreds or tens of millions of profit in the stock market thanks to their investment intelligence. However, they fail to take profit smartly and end up losing all or even becoming heavy in debt. Many go through regrets, pain and depression as well.

Whether it is a fire incident or a human error of not taking profit in time, both cause the loss of benefits. Disasters cannot be altered, but human error can be corrected if chance permits. However, the best solution might still be belittling life gains and losses.

Life is short being decades of time. How to live it to the fullest and smile at life gains and losses? Everyone have their own answers. Everything material in our life is a gift and it shouldn’t hurt too much to lose it. If we indeed aspire to it, go and get it again. If we feel like our time can be spent in a wiser way, go for it. Don’t be obsessed with what we have and what we have lost. Coming to this world without a penny, we shouldn’t be afraid of leaving exactly how we came.