"There are always people in this world who envy the life you are living now."
When Xiao Ming told me this sentence, a few of us were drinking beer at a roadside barbecue stall. Skewers, I just took a bite of chicken wings, sat up straight, and recited it silently in my mind several times.
No, there are always people in this world who live the life you want, but there are always people who envy the life you are living now.
This sentence is said in poetry, it should be like this, you stand on the bridge and look at the scenery, the people watching the scenery are looking at you upstairs, the bright moon decorates your windows, you decorate others dream.
I met Xiao Ming in high school. The amazing thing is that in the past three years, we were assigned to the same class every time, and we became friends who knew each other.
When taking the exam from primary school to junior high school, Xiao Ming was just a few points away from being admitted to the best experimental middle school in town at that time. Xiao Ming’s parents were thinking about it, and for the sake of their child’s future, they finally gritted their teeth and paid for their connections to send him away. Entered experimental middle school.
Unexpectedly, the class he was in was the so-called "relationship class" in the grade at that time. As the name suggests, the people in the class basically get in through "connections." Most of the people who can get in through this channel are children from rich families. This one is a relative of the mayor, and that one is the son of Director XX. .
However, Xiao Ming’s family is not rich, or even poor. Both his parents are simple farmers.
In that era of junior high school, where everything had to be compared, as the class with the largest number of rich people in the grade, all kinds of comparisons were indispensable. While others were discussing buying the latest Nokia mobile phone, Xiao Ming was thinking about how to ask his parents for the 20 yuan data fee after returning home.
When you are in your teens, when you realize that you are not in the same life channel as the people around you, or even have the same topic, it is easy to feel frustrated. Xiao Ming began to become silent in the class, lowering his head to study to cover up his inner depression.
"So during the three years of junior high school, I had very low self-esteem." Xiao Ming said, lowering his head and scratching his head.
After coughing a few times, Xiao Ming looked at me and said, "You know, I was quite envious of you when I was in high school."
I stared at him in surprise, a little uncomfortable. I don’t think there is anything enviable about my life.
Xiao Ming drank the beer in his hand and continued: "At that time, I rarely went out to parties. It was not that I was unsociable, but it cost money to go out. I didn't dare to talk to my family. University Admission Notice When I got it, a few of us went out to a party. I got drunk for the first time. You were all discussing college life and everything about college. At that time, I was secretly wiping away tears and thinking about whether I could go to college. . ”
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The chat finally ended while changing glasses. When it was time to leave, Xiao Ming was scrambling to pay the bill.
Maybe you envy other people's lives, maybe you are living a life that others envy.
I always thought that it is impossible for people to be truly satisfied. The so-called insatiable desires are the species that stand on the red-hot iron and keep jumping, thinking that it will not hurt so much if they jump up or jump to other places. . As a result, other people's lives become an imaginary life.
At that time, I felt that I was in a terrible state. I was not making progress in my studies but falling behind, I was noisy with my family, my classmates had a rigid relationship, and I was not liked by my teachers. The so-called everything was not going well is probably the best way to describe it. So when I heard that someone was envious of my life, my first reaction was confusion.
What I never said is that at that time I also envied Xiao Ming’s life, envied his good academic performance, envied him always having many friends around him, envied his various...
Envy itself is not a shameful thing. We envy others because we expect perfection and hope to live a better life.
Even now, I am envious of other people around me, of their well-to-do families, of their smooth work, of their sweet love, of their excellent communication skills... I envy you. , but I insist on being myself!
Everyone’s situation is different, and others can never imitate it. Maybe the life you hate at the moment may be the life that others envy and pursue.
Just be content and live happily!