“Experienced” Or “Fulfilled”

In Mu Xin’s Carnival after War, he says it again and again, “The lives that I have ever seen, are all just experienced, but not fulfilled.” “Experienced” means that life has not transcended itself, even it has experienced all of the required processes. And “Fulfilled” means that life has achieved eternal perfection, through self-improving and self-transcending continually.The awareness of Wandering about the identity of author is presented in the poems of Mu Xin. His thoughts and viewpoints on life can be found in his proses. And in his novels, it can be found that life is variable, pessimistic and unfulfilled. The Memoirs of Literature, dictated by Mu Xin, reflects his religious thinking about life-fulfilling.As Mu Xin stresses that, self-education is the essential way to fulfill life. Devoting oneself to art is the necessary means of life-salvation. Lastly, immortality is the idealistic state of life-fulfilling.Life-experienced and Life-fulfilled are totally different. Life-experienced means unfulfilled life to a certain extent; while Life-fulfilled maintains philosophical and anthropological connotation.Mu Xin’s outlook on Life-experienced and Life-fulfilled provides important enlightenment and references for contemporary society and men. First, it reveals that the essence of life lies in its imperfectability. Secondly, it offers a kind of standard to judge the values of all kinds of art. And thirdly, it states clearly that how to fulfill life without just experiencing it.