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The lights and bustling traffic of big cities are really fascinating. The bustling urban life, the mingled banquets, the fascinating splendid costumes, and the swaying figures of modern girls , the blurred eyes and the rose-like lip color are a different kind of scenery.
There is competition and opportunity all the time. If you have the strength and ability, and if you catch the right time, you can easily stand out from the crowd and you can use your experience for several years. It takes time to prove yourself and get a promotion and salary increase. You can jump from one company to another and experience different jobs.
You don’t have to worry about boiling the frog in warm water to kill your fighting spirit and make you lose your love for life. You feel that your life is not an ordinary one. Although you are ordinary, you can live an extraordinary life.
You can enjoy the most luxurious items and the most advanced services. You can fly back and forth at any time, from this city to that city, from this country to that country.
You can take a quick trip, the romance of Bali, the blue sky of Santorini, Greece, the hot spring resort hotel in Japan, the sunshine of California, etc.
But unfortunately, you are the one who works hard in a big city. You get up early every day and grab a piece of bread, afraid that you will miss the bus or miss the subway, or that you will not be able to make it to work. You live alone or with several people in a cheap rental house, and every month you calculate how to save on property fees, water and electricity bills from your meager salary. You can't afford Chanel or Armani.
Your shirts are old after being washed, and your shoes are peeling off after being worn. When you choose fruits, you only dare to pick those that look similar and are not completely rotten. You keep working hard and keep trying. Working hard, making money and saving money all the time just to be able to send more money home.
When your parents called you to ask how you were doing, you happily said on the phone that you were doing well, but after hanging up the phone, you squatted down, hugged yourself and cried. Do you think You can no longer work alone, and you feel like you are really about to give up. You suddenly doubt your persistence and whether your dreams are just dreams.
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In a small city, he might lazily go to work every day, drink tea and read the newspaper, and after get off work, watch the news network and help his wife pick up the food. Picking up edamame and green vegetables. When I was lucky, I was a small leader and wrote a short paper to evaluate professional titles, but I didn’t know what the format was. When I was writing the annual work report, I randomly copied an article online, changed the name, changed the time and place, and it just passed. .
When she was young, she might have found a bad job and relied on her beauty to marry a man from a good family. After the marriage, she stayed at home taking care of the children and cooking. She was unlucky. At that time, her husband cheated on her, her children were disobedient, and she turned into a yellow-faced woman, from a gentle woman to an aggressive and resentful woman.
In the long river of time, I forget to take care of myself and take care of myself. In the long river of time, I only think about paying for my husband and my children, but I forget that no matter how old a woman is, she has to take care of herself. Take good care of yourself. When you are lucky, you will have a son who will please your parents-in-law. When you are not lucky, you will have a daughter who will be disliked and nagged by her mother-in-law all day long.
Perhaps, when I have more time, I can play mahjong with my neighbor, go square dancing with my aunt, and talk about going home from home to home, and the day will pass like that. I receive a fixed salary every month, and I have forgotten my original dream. I don’t know how to perfect myself and improve myself. I prefer eight o’clock idol dramas to reading books, and prefer to go to the gym to work out. He likes to eat himself into a fat man and says that being fat is a sign of wealth.
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Some people say that it is better to live in a big city because you can find a job that suits you and have many choices. Some people say that small cities are better because there is less competition and the pace is not fast. In fact, no matter where you live, you need to work hard and struggle. There is no innate luck, only your unwillingness to make progress and the courage to fear failure.
My thesis advisor is a big boy from the northeast sunshine. The reason why I call him that is because he is not the old professor with glasses and gray hair that you imagine.
In this age of looking at faces, his profile alone can kill a girl's heart in an instant. He looks very much like Tong Dawei in "Struggle". His handsomeness is not as charming as a handsome boy, but he has a kind of charm. Extraordinarily clean and comfortable.
For the convenience of narration, we call him Mr. Z. In fact, I was not familiar with Mr. Z at first, but I heard rumors that my senior sister had a crazy crush on him and set his photo as a computer screen. , I always feel that it is not groundless. The first time I really met Mr. Z was when he was invited to our class party. At the farmhouse, he played billiards very skillfully and looked like a college student.
Later, our thesis advisor was assigned to a thesis advisor. Unexpectedly, I was assigned to Mr. Z’s thesis advisor group. My first reaction at that time was that it was over. I heard from my classmates that young thesis advisors have many demands. The thesis advisor will also scold you and cry, but I really can’t imagine the scenario of being scolded and cried by Mr. Z.
The fact is that Mr. Z is a patient and careful thesis instructor. He will point it out to you if the sentence is not fluent and ask you to correct it and mark it with a red pen. Other students in the group do not have confidence in him. It’s better to encourage with good intentions instead of criticizing casually. I heard before that he didn't do particularly well as a counselor. I also heard my classmates say some unpleasant things about Mr. Z. I am more willing to believe what I see with my eyes than what I hear with my ears.
Besides, Mr. Z has just arrived at the university and started working as a counselor. It is inevitable that there will be omissions in his work as a counselor. After all, the job of a counselor is relatively trivial and there are many chores. No one can take care of this. I couldn't care less about that situation. To use an analogy, Mr. Z is like a newcomer who has just entered the workplace. Who can guarantee that a newcomer will not make any mistakes? I just think that teachers also need to understand their work.
As the first calligraphy master’s student recruited by the School of Humanities, Mr. Z’s calligraphy is of course not a problem. He is young and can write better than those little old men. After adding Mr. Z to each other on WeChat, I chatted with Mr. Z and found that he is very interesting. He does not pretend to be a teacher and will give you some advice like a big brother.
In the circle of friends, he goes cycling with friends from time to time, or travels from Lijiang to Tibet, or posts photos of his calligraphy works, and there are also photos of participating in activities with students. Sometimes I drink tea, sometimes I write poems, sometimes I burn incense. When it rains, I post a message saying, "I heard that music goes better with regular script on rainy days."
After getting acquainted with Mr. Z, I learned that Mr. Z had given up his job in Beijing and came to teach at a university in Yunnan. Sometimes, I would inevitably ask, "Teacher, don't you miss home? How long have you been there?" Go home once?” Questions like this, he would say, think about it, go home twice a year. I said that since I’m already working, it’s not easy to be able to go home twice a year.
Reminds me of the saying "Good men travel everywhere". Mr. Z is one of the representatives. Mr. Z said that he likes his current life very much because he can do more of what he likes. If he is in Beijing, working Life is always too busy, and there are not many things you can do that you like. This is one of the reasons why I came to this small town now. If I could use one sentence to describe Mr. Z, I think it should be the words in "The Book of Songs. Wei Feng. Qi Ao": "There are bandit gentlemen who are as good as discussing and discussing."
Mr. Z also let I thought of a saying, you have to believe that there are always people in this world who live the life you want. Who said that you can't live your life like poetry in a small city? Who said that having a stable job will kill your passion and fighting spirit? I believe that the true meaning of work is to live a better life, Mr. Z That's the best explanation.
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Like many young girls, I also yearn for the prosperity and colorfulness of big cities. I also imagine poetry and the beauty of the distance. But if I want to live, I still want to live in a small town. Except that I am a child from the countryside, I prefer the human touch and leisurely time in small towns.
I like to live the most ordinary life in a small town, but pursue extraordinary dreams, live every ordinary day into poetry, and live life into a shining bead. , turned into a piece of gentle and flawless jade.
If I lived in a small town, I would live like this:
No matter how bad things happen in life, we must learn to face ourselves bravely, Be brave enough to solve problems instead of avoiding them. We should not close our hearts and feel the sunshine every day, rising like a sunflower, full of positive energy.
With the advancement of science and technology, we eat more and more greenhouse vegetables or genetically modified foods. Many foods are sprayed with fertilizers and pesticides. We can rarely eat vegetables grown by farmers themselves. Natural green vegetables, you don’t have to worry about getting sick or not getting enough nutrition.
It is a pleasant thing to pick vegetables by yourself. You can feel the scenery of the fields and relax yourself. You can also experience the fun of cooking delicious food. You can cook whatever you like and feel every step of cooking. Take a step instead of just eating a fast food to kill yourself and rush things off.
Modern, fast-paced life rarely allows us to watch the beauty of the natural night and listen to the chirping of crickets. The gorgeous lights of the city also cover up the beauty of the starry sky. If you are in the countryside, you can sit on the lawn and look up to see the most beautiful moonlight and starlight. In summer, you can see fireflies and lotus flowers in the lotus field. Pick one and put it in a vase to embellish the loneliness of your home.
I especially like the Spring Festival in the countryside, it is very lively and has a special flavor of the New Year. I like to see children paying New Year greetings and asking for New Year's money. I like to help my parents prepare New Year's dinner. I like to watch my parents longing for me and my lover to go back. He looks happy and likes to listen to his parents’ nagging. I like to watch my father and his lover fighting over each other while drinking wine and boxing. I like to have neighbors come as guests and talk about their family's shortcomings. I can feel the most authentic smell of fireworks and the simplest and warmest feelings.
Although we live in a small town, as long as we have time, we can go out for more walks, see the lakes and mountains, appreciate the beautiful scenery, and experience the history, culture, humanistic characteristics, and food of various places. , make your life richer and more interesting.
Whether it is writing, drinking tea or painting and arranging flowers, or taking photography, playing ball or cooking, I think that persisting in interest and learning skills is to make our world more colorful and life more interesting. We can enjoy ourselves physically and mentally in this process and make more like-minded friends.
I believe that as long as we are willing to work hard and struggle, we can live a life that we like and a wanton life.