Although I am ordinary, I am not willing to be ordinary.
I once saw a question on Zhihu: Did you suddenly feel depressed for a moment, although nothing happened?
The best answer is this:
In the middle of the night, I suddenly remembered that I had been studying in primary school so-so, and I had no special skills. I don't have many friends and I don't keep in touch often.
There must be no outside, and there must be no inside or outside.
I didn't become an excellent person. I often worry about trivial things in my life and have no perseverance to make changes. I always make up my mind tonight, but tomorrow I will give up because of all kinds of things.
So I can't sleep, and the more I listen to pure music, the more sad I am. I feel my heart is getting calmer and calmer, and it is beginning to sink. ...
Irresponsible speculation, the heart began to sink, not only an anonymous answer, but also many people who were poked by this answer.
I don't know when it started, but we are used to wasting our lives meaningless every day:
Get up every morning, take the crowded subway or bus to work, complete the tasks assigned by the leaders, go home after a busy day, get up to take care of the housework, look after the children, sleep until exhausted, wake up the next day, and begin to repeat the life of the previous day. ......
Many people live like this, but you have to ask them, are they really willing?
I'm afraid few people's answers are yes.
Decades ago, I defeated so many competitors that I got the chance to walk in this world. Who wants to live this life?
Some people may say: Ordinary is a blessing, but plain is true. After all, there are billions of people in the world, and how many really get ahead?
This sentence is true, but ordinary and mediocrity are two different concepts.
Most people come from ordinary families, have no prominent family background and have no IQ. But they have their own ideas, their own goals in life, they don't depend on others, and they don't want to be mediocre all their lives. Such people, though ordinary, are not mediocre.
If we are not content with mediocrity, what should we do or remember?
The writer Mai Jia once mentioned the following points in the article "To all young people who are unwilling to be mediocre":
Graduation means marrying society. The school is a greenhouse, where we can fully enjoy the sunshine. But once you leave there, you must learn to face the ups and downs outside alone.
Society is both a stage and a battlefield. We wrestle in it, compared with our own brains, courage and strength ... opportunities abound and challenges are everywhere, which is the normal state of society.
The first thing to go to society is to return to zero all my past Excellence and meet a completely different life with a brand-new look.
Mind, let literature nourish it. If reference books can solve a person's actual survival problems, fame and fortune, status and identity. Literature books solve people's dreams and spiritual problems.
Blessed is the soul. My heart is sinking. What's the use of having a golden hill?
The most successful people have setbacks and mental anxiety, and Jinshan is powerless when there is something wrong with their thoughts. And a poem, a story about joys and sorrows, may help you out of anxiety and confusion.
A large number of literary works record all kinds of worlds, inherit human emotions and memories, are our inner difficulties and emotional confusion, and are all kinds of situations in our lives: truth and falsehood, love and hate, good and evil, beauty and ugliness, hope and despair.
Your confusion is in it, and the solution to your confusion is also in those spiritual words.
Hold on, don't lose by yourself. Everyone has his own way in his heart, and society will constantly distract you, leave yourself and cater to others. Society will always be a double-edged sword for you. When you get it, you may lose it. When you move towards the so-called "success", you may be surrendering to yourself.
You must first find your own way with your heart, and then you will have the courage to stick to it and take responsibility without being sucked away by society.
Embrace society, and you will be assimilated, defeated and abandoned; Only by embracing yourself can you embrace yourself forever and succeed.
There are many fields in the world, and there are a group of successful people in each field. They work hard in their respective industries and cultivate their own careers. That is success: failure is also success, because you will always belong to yourself. You have your own success when others lose themselves.
Throughout Mai Jia's life experience, it is not difficult to find that these three points are his heartfelt words combined with his own experience. From a bullied child to a successful writer who won the Mao Dun Literature Prize, he relied on more than just the word luck.
His first novel, Decryption, was written 1 1 year and was rejected 17 times. People with poor psychological endurance may have given up their dream of being a writer and gone home to farm, but Mai's family didn't.
Return the goods once and modify them once. After a long tug-of-war, this book was finally published, and won eight literary awards, including the China National Book Award and the nomination of the 6th Mao Dun Literature Award, which made Mai Jia famous in World War I..
At that time, Mai Jia's works were not literary works in the traditional sense. He could have changed his writing style to meet the mainstream orientation or market demand, but he didn't.
In 2003, he published the novel plot against him, and in June 2008, plot against him won the 7th Mao Dun Literature Prize. In a sense, it can also be said that this book, which does not conform to the traditional meaning, has adjusted the award criteria of Mao Dun Literature Award.
Mai Jia found the way he wanted to go, and he did what he said and kept himself on this road.
In this issue, reader Jun recommended all three volumes of Mai Jia's works: Decryption+Wind+Sneaking.
These three novels are the classics of spy war novels. Not only is the content suspense exciting, but the plot is compact and exciting. After reading it, I can appreciate Mai Jia's unique philosophy of life, which is the best reading of Mao Dun's literature prize-winning works.
Secret conspiracy
"Everyone is an island. You can unlock the enemy's password, but it is difficult to unlock the mind's password. "
The plot of Anti is about a group of geniuses who are willing to remain anonymous for their ideals and lofty goals. Their job is to capture the information of the wind, listen to the heartbeat of the dead, and make the impossible possible.
They live in endless darkness and loneliness, walking on the edge of success and collapse. In order to complete the task, they have to make a deal with the devil, and they may fall into the abyss of perdition at any time. Once back in the sun, they are like idiots, and no one will think that life is a trap to kill them.
wind
"In the face of the endgame, how to jump out of the dark abyss in loneliness and despair?"
The Wind is the representative work of Mai Jia, the winner of Mao Dun Literature Prize, and has been adapted into film, television and drama for many times.
The novel tells how a person breaks through in loneliness and despair, under the heavy burden of responsibility and the heavy shackles of reality, with strong belief and genius imagination, such as phoenix nirvana.
This book has won the People's Literature Award for Best Novel of the Year, the Chinese Literature Media Award and the Ba Jin Literature Award. It is the first novel published in full since the publication of People's Literature.
Mai Jia said: "It seems that I wrote a group of heartless people, and this is precisely my most affectionate work."
Decryption of [communication]
"Most secrets in the world are hidden in dreams, just like you can't control your own destiny, but living is like having no name."
"Decryption" is a game between one genius and another, and it is a crushing and recasting of the mind.
Rong Jinzhen, an ill-fated mathematical genius, is a genius like mathematician johnf nash. Because of his extraordinary talent, he was recruited into the national secret force 70 1 and cracked an extremely difficult enemy password "Mizi".
Under the great expectation and spiritual crisis, can Rong Jinzhen, who is always obsessed with playing chess with crazy people, crack the "purple secret" and become a national hero? In the huge state machine, personal fate is ups and downs.
After several years, everyone has only one legend about them, and no one can predict the trajectory of fate. ...
The complete works of Mai Jia's spy war three volumes
Cover-up+wind+decryption
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