In recent years, there have been a lot of topics about middle-aged people on the internet-"35-year-old crisis", "40-year-old middle-aged men send takeout after losing their jobs" and so on.
When people reach middle age, "there are old people on the top and small people on the bottom", and the projects that spend money compete one after another, while making money is like tap water that doesn't matter.
Zhang Ailing wrote such a sentence in "Half Life": "When people reach middle age, they often feel lonely, because when they wake up, they are surrounded by people who want to rely on them, but there is no one to rely on."
A few years ago, there was a picture that was popular on the Internet. A middle-aged man is being scolded by his leader, but he can do nothing but suffer silently. There is also a paragraph next to it: "Don't yell at young people, they will resign immediately, but you can scold those middle-aged people to death, especially those who have cars, houses and babies."
When you are young, everyone has dreams and dreams of living a brilliant life. But real life has always been a chicken feather, and no one can stay out of it.
When people feel confused in middle age, they might as well read A Chicken Feather written by Liu Zhenyun thirty years ago.
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Xiaolin, the hero of the story, was admitted to Beijing from a small place, became a civil servant, and married Xiao Li, who is also a civil servant. In our current catchphrase, it is "the success of a small town as a topic writer."
In the eyes of outsiders, Kobayashi and Xiao Li are glamorous "successful people". They are both civil servants. With their own efforts, they have gained a firm foothold and settled down in the vast Beijing. But in fact, the monthly salary and the daily necessities they have to face when they wake up every day can make them feel frustrated and powerless in minutes.
Even a piece of rotten tofu can trigger war at home. Xiao Li blamed Xiao Lin for not putting tofu in the refrigerator, which led to spoilage. Kobayashi is also very wronged. In order to grab cheap tofu, he went to the queue at six in the morning and waited for more than an hour to buy it. Because of the long delay, he was also recorded as "late" for work. So, mixed with the resentment accumulated that day, I vented it through this rotten tofu. A kilo of tofu, which is not worth a few dollars, made the couple hysterical and burst into tears.
The collapse of adults really comes from some trivial daily life. But after venting, you still have to clean up the mess and continue to walk with a smile.
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Kobayashi, who just graduated from college, was in high spirits and eager to make a vigorous career. But he is not tactful and sophisticated enough to handle the complicated interpersonal relationships in the office. He unconsciously offended the leader, and there was no hope of promotion and salary increase. I also changed myself from "Kobayashi" to "Lao Lin".
Work is stagnant, and life is even weaker.
In order to help his wife Xiao Li move to a unit close to home, the couple walked around and bowed to give gifts, but in the end they could only change to "hot face and cold ass". "
I want to send my children to a better kindergarten, but I also asked around and found that this one is actually more difficult than changing jobs for my wife. I can't rack my brains and I don't know who to give a gift to.
People in my hometown are still proud of Kobayashi and often ask him to buy train tickets and make appointments with hospital experts. Xiao Lin, who has no access, can only promise to save face, and then get up early in the morning to queue up to buy tickets.
In the middle of the night, Kobayashi will still slap himself in the face with tears in the dark night: "How can you be so incompetent, how can you be so ignorant!" But when I woke up in the morning, Kobayashi had no energy to entangle last night's sadness and continued to queue up to buy breakfast and rush to work.
Middle-aged people have to face these problems more or less-Kobayashi has faced them. Work has worn away our edges and corners, and life has taught us to compromise. As the song goes: "Until you find out, ordinary is the only answer!" " "
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Mo Bosang, a Frenchman, once wrote in his novel Life: "Life is neither as good as people think, nor as bad as people think".
Soon, Kobayashi's family ushered in two good news.
The first thing is that although Xiao Li's job has not been successfully transferred, the unit has opened a direct bus, which makes it convenient for her to go to work.
Another thing is that a rich neighbor gave Kobayashi an extra kindergarten place, and Kobayashi's daughter went to school smoothly.
At the same time, Kobayashi met his college classmate "Little Li Bai". This man, who once only loved to write poetry in college, has long since put down his poetry and turned to the vegetable market to sell roast duck, thus getting rid of poverty and becoming rich. Because of something to go out, "Xiao Li Bai" also specially asked Xiaolin to help look after the booth for a few days. He has given more money these days than he earned in a month.
Because life is developing in a good direction, Xiao Lin finds that Xiao Li is gentler and has fewer family conflicts.
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After reading Liu Zhenyun's A Chicken Feather, I found that life is dull and trivial most of the time, and my troubles will always accompany me. But accompanying children's growth and parents' old age is not a landscape of life?
When people reach middle age, throw away those embarrassing and unrealistic ideas and live a good life. Deal with the chicken feathers in front of you, and then think about romantic poems and distant places!