You are well-educated, and when you talk about your university intentionally or unintentionally, others look at you with envy without exception. You have a glamorous job, you are either one of the Big Four or 4A, you are either a monopoly state-owned enterprise or one of the Global Fortune 500; in a company where all Chinese people call each other by their English names. Every day after eating, I check Weibo to save the world.
You have a fever, take your IPC with you when you go out, tie a portable amp with a hemp rope, and pair it with a pair of ER4P in-ear earplugs, which are completely soundproof. Isn’t that eye-catching enough? Then change to a pair of the most popular Monster Beats Pro headphones, which are sold in the accessories section of every Apple flagship store. They are brightly colored and stylish, with a b printed on each side of the two ears, hanging on your On the head, it is truly worthy of the title.
You call yourself a "foodie". The poor kid grew up in the city and didn't have any good food. He took the 10-yuan subway from the south of the city to get there for the ridiculous roadside stalls recommended on the food channel. North of the city. You love food, so you spend ten minutes each time cooking, twenty minutes setting up the dishes, and thirty minutes taking photos. Once the photos are taken, they are imported into PhotoShop and paired with two classical Chinese sentences in Kangxi dictionary style, and then posted on the blog Douban and Weibo.
You are a young literary and artistic person who knows nothing about music, chess, calligraphy and painting. You dare to write ancient poems without understanding the rhythm. You love Shakespeare's heroic couplets the most. You only go to movie theaters to watch movies, and you never mention foreign movies by their Chinese or English names. You call "Lord of the Rings" LOTR and "Batman 3" TDKR, which is more foreign and more respectable. When you hear Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons", you'll think of the sparkling Lake Geneva and the snow-capped Alps.
Finally one day, when you hold a free concert ticket and fall asleep to the sound of the piano, when you are arty and go to see a Picasso exhibition but fail to understand a single painting, you suddenly realize that you are of shallowness. Without diamonds, how can you install porcelain? Without effort, where will there be gain?
It’s not that easy to be cool, that’s why it’s so fascinating.
You start to read books seriously. Time is precious. You only read classics. When you raise your hand, you will find Zhonghua Book Company, Shanghai Ancient Books, and photocopies of various rare and rare books. You will not read books with horizontal layout or books with simplified Chinese characters. . Theoretical study should not be left behind. I bought dozens of copies of the Commercial Press’s Chinese Translation of World Academic Classics Series. They were yellow, green, orange, and blue, and there was a row of rainbows on the bookshelf.
You secretly changed the ringtone of your mobile phone from "In My Song" to Chopin's Nocturne, and threw away the CDs of Faye Wong and Leslie Cheung. You are evergreen, you admire, you Pink Floyd, you Guns N' Roses , you hear from pop to jazz, from rock to classical, and when someone asks you about your favorite singer, you look up at the stars at a 45-degree angle, and say with pious eyes: "In Bach We Trust." Reciting Bach's When ch is raised, the upper palate is raised, and the pronunciation is "he ha", which is pronounced softly and continuously, with a pure uvular sound, a German taste!
Digital SLRs can no longer be used. Now even the uncles and aunties in the tour group all have a 5D2. The camera must be film, and the film must be 120. Open your refrigerator, there is nothing to eat, it is full of film - and it must be expired.
You can no longer go to domestic tourist attractions. The ancient water towns are all full of one-night stands. Tibet is full of sour and poor urban white-collar workers who know nothing but resigning. You backpack, you go outdoors, you are independent and fearless, you wear Columbia waterproof shoes and NorthFace jackets, you use GPS to get lost, and send out distress messages on rainy nights in Huangshan Mountain.
You study anthropology, sociology, history, botany, architecture, and psychology. You master six foreign languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, and Tieling dialect. You know Kangxi When did his brother-in-law's second uncle die? You can distinguish classical column patterns and recognize European squares. You can name the families and genus of flowers and grasses on the roadside. You speak M2 and shut up. There is excess liquidity. You and your friends have saved a fortune. Pencil Economic Research Society, which studies anything but economics.
You are old, your hair and beard are gray, you retreat to the countryside, hiding your merit and fame. When you are in a bad mood, you can fly to London to feed the pigeons, or go to Nepal to climb Mount Everest. When you are in a good mood, you can cook a plate of braised pork for your goddaughter.
You will be the most powerful person, and you will be able to look down upon others. You no longer need to pretend to be cool, because you are cool.
You spent your life peacefully and were buried in your peaceful hometown after death. Wild flowers gently covered your tombstone, and the six characters engraved on it were clearly legible:
"Live." Lived, loved, pretended.
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