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Some time ago, I went back to my hometown town and happened to watch a relative's child's "one-year-old lottery" ceremony. The whole family was dressed in luxurious clothes, the tile floor was polished, and there was a square piece of red cloth embroidered with gold threads scattered on the floor. Bowls, spoons, toys, Pens, books, car models, RMB, U.S. dollars, house models, computers, accessories, designer bags, the child crawled around on them, and finally the little hand reached for the brush. The child's grandmother grabbed the child's hand and chanted: "Little Children are not thorough in doing things, how can they be so careless about such a serious matter!" After saying this, he threw the pen as far away as possible. Later, this "grandma God" stopped the child from grabbing bowls, toys, accessories and books. Finally, the child successfully grabbed the red RMB. There was warm applause from all around. The child's mother excitedly picked up her mobile phone to take pictures and said: " Xiaobao, look here, look here, smile." So a picture of a one-year-old baby happily grabbing red RMB appeared in the circle of friends, with the text: One-year-old draws lots, Xiaobao grabbed the RMB. Why do you think this child has been so secular since he was a child? Ha ha ha ha.
As for me, who has witnessed the entire lottery process, I can only say that it turns out that the current one-year-old lottery is like taking a selfie with a beauty phone, you can NG it until you are satisfied.
People nowadays are very strange. They talk about various cultures with their mouths, but despise culture in their hearts; they love money, but they say things that despise money.
"Only work can make me happy."
"When are you most fulfilled?" "When you work overtime?"
"I feel extremely anxious whenever I have some free time."
"I will go through fire and water for the RMB, even if I die!"
"Dating takes too much time. If I want to fall in love, I will do it once in my life, with Lao Mao."
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I don’t know when, people’s lives have entered such a state. People who are short of money work day and night to make money in order to survive, while rich people are busy making the money numbers bigger and bigger and maintaining the face of these numbers. People who are good or bad compare the people before, after, and on the left and right, and climb higher with a glass heart.
Yes, the whole life of most people in society is: making money.
You live in a ten-square-meter private house, get up at seven o'clock every morning, eat bread and squeeze into the bus, working a job that doesn't feel like anything. You envy others who work overtime and get overtime pay on time, and you want to eat a sundae. I bought a cone in my pocket, and when I went out to meet my friends, I was thinking about where to eat to save some money without being too shabby.
You can't understand why people in your circle of friends are eating big meals, watching movies, and shopping for clothes every day. You have no solution but are anxious! So you become a member of all video websites, and TV series, variety shows, short videos, movies, and live broadcasts become your only choice to escape reality and pursue beauty.
In this kind of addiction, there is no time to pay attention to whether it is empty or not, and the days seem not to be empty.
I don’t know when more and more children call you aunt (uncle). At first you will say: "It’s not aunt, it’s sister. Ask sister to give you sweets." When you hear "sister", you feel satisfied and happy. , as if he was still the same eighteen-year-old self. Now, when you hear "auntie", you will smile politely and run away without expression. You can't deny the seniority that time has brought to you, and you even wonder how long this seniority can last. The change in life is limited to the fact that you move from a ten-square-meter bungalow to a ten-square-meter building, limited to the free grease on your face turning into affordable cosmetics, and limited to the "children's clothes" on your body turning into "professional attire" , only the bank card in the wallet has become a credit card, and life has not become easier because the salary has increased by several thousand yuan.
The ancients said that you stand up at thirty, but in this era, there are too few people who stand up on their own at thirty. Most people in their thirties just find a partner to live in, build a 20-square-meter nest, and then, When you were still immersed in the dream of being 18 years old, a little guy was born suddenly, so there were three people living together in a 20-square-meter nest.
You may be lucky enough to live in a city where housing prices are not that high, or your dad may have some money to help you pay for the down payment of the house. Then you can at least live together in a decent "home": a kitchen with firewood, rice, oil and salt on display, a living room where the TV is never turned on, and a master bedroom where you never lie down when you open your eyes. Now and in the next twenty years, the whole mission of life is to work hard to pay off the debt owed to buy a house and to work harder to accumulate some capital to help the little one born in the future to help him live. Apart from that…, what else can I do? Is there anything else?
Occasionally, I have a little fantasy, that is, I can meet koi, win a lottery, become rich overnight, and then spend, spend, spend. If you stay in a five-star hotel until you vomit, drink bird's nest and eat abalone until you vomit, use LV, Hermès, Cucci and Chanel until you vomit, then you will be considered a comeback in this life.
Calm down, it turns out it’s so difficult to stand up!
You are pushed forward on a road of no return. At fifty, you really know your destiny. When I was young, I struggled several times in order to make money, but the results were good or bad. In the end, I chose to keep a job and my salary increased for more than ten years. Now I don’t have a busy job or extreme dreams. I occasionally drink a few big drinks and brag. Bragging, waiting to retire and spend his old age.
Born as a "top", which top would feel that it was not born for non-stop spinning?
No matter where you are in life, it’s not that you can’t be busy day and night, nor that you should be ashamed of being poor. It’s just that all actions in life should not be hijacked and controlled by society, parents, or not enough. Rich life itself is held hostage. A complete top should consist of two parts: the rope that brings power and the main body that is turned. People often only become the part that is turned.
When the entire society measures everything by money, you will think that how much money you make is the reflection of your worth, and whether you make enough money is the source of your sense of security. However, is your true value Has been increasing growth?
Some time ago, the host Li Yong passed away from cancer. Gao Xiaosong wrote an article recalling Li Yong's living conditions during his lifetime. A host with an annual salary of over one million lived in an airtight rental house with damp bedding and expired and moldy food in the refrigerator. , there are instant noodle boxes on the table. Does a person who is so dedicated and working hard to make money make money for a better life, or does he make money for the sake of making money? What’s the point of making money if you no longer have the ability to enjoy life! ! !
I enjoyed watching the recently popular variety show "Wife's Romantic Travel". What I enjoyed was not how the wives and husbands showed off their love and chatted about the past, but what I enjoyed from this program was the great attitude towards life of the Nordic people. The undulating green spaces, vast water bodies, and majestic and beautiful snow-capped mountains make it difficult not to attract people's eyes. Therefore, the decoration of Nordic houses is always so simple, and the most important thing is to have large windows so that you can see the beautiful scenery at any time. The natural environment has given birth to the Nordic people's ability to value life and enjoy life, earn enough money to live, and spend all the time left to experience life.
Maybe you think it's nonsense. Young life should not be used to strive to realize dreams, but to enjoy life?
No, you are wrong again! The process of working hard to realize your dreams is itself a part of enjoying life, but you have to make sure that the time and energy you spend is on the things you enjoy, because "time" is more valuable than "money" itself. Not only those who love money can make money, not only businessmen who love business can become billionaires, writers who love writing can also become billionaires, actors who love acting can also become billionaires, and people who love traveling can also become billionaires. To become a billionaire, people who love fishing can also become billionaires. In this era, even people who love eating can become billionaires.
But you are too anxious to make money, so you devote your life to making money, and you may not make much money in the end.
People who have the ability to plan and enjoy life will not be too depressed. As for what kind of "rich man" they can become, they "know their destiny".
Most people are particularly susceptible to external influences, and I have not been able to escape the categories that influence their lives. Looking back on what I have done over the past few years, fortunately I still have some persistence, but most of the time I have been torturing myself for how I am in the eyes of others. Recently, I have had the opportunity to calm down and think about what I want to do? I thought of something I wanted to stick to ten years ago: reading good books and writing something good every day. However, these ten years were the ten years in which I read the least, and the things I wrote were almost all commercial advertisements.
I may spend one or two hours or more every day browsing overwhelming meaningless information on my mobile phone, but I am not in the mood to pick up a book; I will work overtime until two or three in the middle of the night in order to gain the recognition of others, and I will not pick up a book. A book reads twelve o'clock; I can spend a hundred bucks on a lunch, but I don't spend 20 bucks on a book.
I used to think that the sound of one piece of paper rubbing against another was the most beautiful music in the world, but now I'm almost used to living in high-decibel noise.
Forgetting is a common problem among us.
Maybe many people are like me. They have had many slap-in-the-face plans since they were young, but they failed in various ways. But this time, I want to devote all my perseverance to doing one thing: reading a book in seven days; goal: ten years.
This is the purpose of my public account "Reading in Seven Days". I read a book in seven days and update my reading insights in the form of video + text every Sunday.
A book is a world, and I want to see how many worlds I can go to in the rest of my life.
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In addition to persisting in reading myself, I also hope to recommend the good books I read every week to people who love reading. I hope more friends will join and recommend good books to me. At the same time, I welcome people who love fun to watch and supervise.
Leave a message to recommend books, and if you are accepted for reading, you will receive a pair of fashionable sunglasses! (The rendering is as follows, the pixels are quite poor!)
The first world: "The Cold End of the World in Northern Europe".
This is a book written by dozens of writers who love traveling. They have lived in a certain country or city in Northern Europe for a long time, and bring us what they saw about Northern Europe, the life of Nordic people, and the Nordic people. The spiritual culture that infects people. See you next Sunday after reading!
