There's nothing wrong with that. Doing some effective efforts can make you grow, raise your salary, and make you live a better, more hopeful and happier life, because the times are right.
But some people are not so lucky. They have been trying to live an ordinary life all their lives, but in the end they have found nothing but a sigh of relief. He is Xiangzi in Lao She's works.
Camel Xiangzi is Lao She's masterpiece, written in the 1930s, which reproduces the miserable and hopeless life and miserable and powerless fate of the people at that time. Xiangzi's "three ups and downs" in his life well explained this phenomenon.
When Xiangzi was only 18 years old, he lost his parents and a few acres of barren land in the countryside and came to the city to make a living by hard work. He tried his best and finally decided to develop rickshaw pulling into his own "career", because rickshaw pulling is more flexible, with more opportunities and easier to make money.
Young Xiangzi, strong and upright, is like a thriving tree, full of vitality.
Xiangzi gave himself a one-day probation period, and then officially began to clean up the cart. He is mean and careful everywhere, and he doesn't want to argue with others. The wind and rain gnashed their teeth, and the tea was bitter. Xiangzi finally bought his own car.
With a car, you have more expectations and hopes for life, and you are more motivated to pull a car. He became more and more convinced that he and his car were made of iron. Who would have thought that at the beginning of the war, in order to earn more money, he lost his job and his car was taken away by several soldiers.
After a night, I returned to the original state with nothing. During the dark time in the military camp, I realized what was more terrible than poverty and what was more hopeless than darkness. Desire for survival and his more accurate judgment of the terrain, Xiangzi escaped with three camels.
It's like God played a joke on him, but he didn't know that every joke might be the last straw to crush the poor.
After the days when he was captured by soldiers, although he was in shock, Xiangzi's desire to buy his own car again did not become negative, but became stronger.
As if it were another reincarnation, I began to work hard again, making money and saving money to buy a car from morning till night. There's nothing wrong with eating the pain of the past again. I'm afraid someone will take the car that is regarded as brother and life for no reason. After that nightmare, I am depressed and cold, but I still want to buy a car, even if I buy it today, it will be gone tomorrow.
A car full of idiots is also an honor, just like the badge of a battle-hardened soldier. People always have some goals and pursuits in order to live a stable life.
The rickshaw pulling was not so smooth this time. I met a master who regarded himself as a pig and dog. After all, I still can't help but fire my employer. The resentment in my heart is mixed with depression, I feel powerless and helpless about life, and I feel hopeless.
He went back to the people in Si Liu and the garage. Tigress was dressed up and ready to eat and drink, as if waiting for him. It seems to be premeditated. Xiangzi really got drunk in Tigress's arms that night and fell in her boudoir.
Xiangzi was a little at a loss. He doesn't like Tigress because she is old and ugly and has no feminine taste. But obviously Tigress has a crush on Xiangzi. Xiangzi's honesty, diligence, youth, kindness and progress make Tigress like him very much. Sure enough, when Xiangzi went to another house to work as a monthly chauffeur, Tigress came to the door and lied to him and said "Yes".
Xiangzi couldn't react at the moment, and it was hard to accept the reaction. But what can we do? His own fate has never been in his own hands, and even a tigress is difficult for him to deal with. If you want to live with someone you don't like, his heart is like gray ice, and he even feels more like a dead fish frozen in ice. No longer have to feel the suffering of life and the injustice of fate.
According to Tigress's temper, she managed to marry Xiangzi herself. After marriage, they rented a big yard full of poor people, and the unspeakable suffering of life, the inferiority of human nature and the nakedness of human nature were fully reflected in this big yard.
The days will pass eventually. Tigress took out a little extra money and bought Xiangzi a car. Now that Xiangzi has a car again, Tigress is really pregnant this time. The days are still tepid, Xiangzi is seriously ill, and "the body is made of iron" has been disillusioned.
However, fate did not sympathize with him, but intensified. His wife Tigress died in childbirth, one corpse and two lives. Without the last spiritual support, living is actually just a burden.
I thought it would be nice to see a little hope by working hard on my own and living next to the hard life. It never occurred to me that this damn fate is like a ghost. You can't catch it, but you can only suffer those hardships and grievances in vain.
Joey is a girl who lives in a complicated environment. She has a heart for Xiangzi, and Xiangzi also has a heart. But the reality is that Xiangzi's grief over the loss of his wife and children is not far away and his livelihood is uncertain. Xi 'er was still carrying the burden of a large family, but Xiangzi chose to flee hastily.
There is no love between the poor, and love can't be eaten. Love or not is the patent of the rich.
I am relaxed for the time being, but sometimes I don't want to get along like this. It is unwise to destroy yourself. He thought of buying a car again. Fortunately, someone took him in, and he was willing to bring joy. Life seems to see some sunshine.
When he returned to the painting to pick up Joy, he found that she had moved away. After asking, she went to the lowest brothel, and then she escaped and hanged herself in a tree. By this time, in this world, Xiangzi really did not have a trace of concern and a way to live.
That decent, strong, dreamy, strong and great Xiangzi really died, and only the sick children in this depraved, unfortunate and selfish society are still alive.
Now, when we read this, our hearts are full of pity. Some people say that nearly a hundred years have passed, except for the amazing changes in science and technology, there has been no change in general. Come to think of it, it is.
Squeeze the bus to go to work in the company required by "996", you should tighten a string of "last elimination" in your heart and shout the slogan of wolf culture. There are companies that treat women as men and men as animals everywhere. Wages haven't risen much, and house prices still look so firm and out of reach.
The price has gone up a lot again. A few days ago, the cost of living was getting higher and higher because of the sharp rise in drug prices and hot discussion on the Internet. Get married? The house, the car and the bride price have not landed. Have a baby? Milk powder diapers early education kindergarten fees, hollowing you out in minutes, but also a second child? It takes a lot of effort to maintain a slightly decent single life.
The relationship between husband and wife is tense, the divorce rate is getting higher and higher, fewer and fewer people are getting married, the single economy is rising, and the voice of giving birth to children for the country is getting louder and louder. But now many people under siege have no extra strength and energy to maintain their marriage feelings, and even their ability to feel happy has weakened. What's the point of getting married?
We once believed that we had the ability to change our destiny. We are free and have many choices, but in the end we still have nothing. We try to make ourselves different and think that we are unique. Later, we discovered that the ordinary fate of ordinary people is basically unchangeable in many cases.
Xiangzi wants to own his own car, just as we want to buy our own house. As someone said, in this bizarre world, in fact, no one can live a flowing life.
And those who were born as human beings and walked through Pinghu misty rain and years of mountains and rivers will be more distinct. Time is just a bystander, and all the processes and results need to be borne by yourself.