When you don’t know where to go, just try to take the path under your feet.

(1) I suddenly received a text message from my best friend the night before yesterday, asking me if I had time to chat with him. I replied saying yes! I hurried to the bus station, which was as crowded as ever. In this city where I live, there has never been a shortage of young people coming for him. Here, we are doing different jobs and trying to live in different lives. The only thing that is the same is that we are all moving towards a better version of ourselves.

After squeezing onto the bus and finding a place to stay, I called my best friend. He told me that during the three months after leaving school, he moved to three cities and worked three or four jobs, from a real estate company in Changsha to a waiter in Shanghai, and now working in a factory in Shantou. During this time, there are many things that happen that make us want to retreat into our turtle shells to escape reality.

? My best friend said that he liked the job in Changsha Real Estate very much, but I don’t know why he resolutely left his job and went to Shanghai. During the half month in Shanghai, I met an intermediary while looking for a job and was defrauded of all my money. I found a job as a waiter at the last moment, thinking that if I could settle down in that big city first, everything would be fine. Get better slowly. However, the family is in debt due to buying a house, and the family wants my best friend to find a profitable job to earn money to pay off the debt. Helpless, my best friend cried bitterly all night long, and the next day she asked a friend to advance the fare to Shantou, where she is now.

I understand his situation. He doesn’t like his current job, and even dislikes it. Because we have all experienced working like that in our lives. Doing the same work, the same movements, the same things, and looking at the same people every day, this kind of life is too stable, so stable that you mistakenly think you are dead, so stable that you can see what your bones will look like after you die.

Despite this, we have never given up on the thin thread that holds our dreams tightly in our hands. We dare not tighten it even a centimeter, and we dare not relax it even a little bit, for fear of accidentally breaking the thread. The thread that tied the dream was blown by the wind, and then disappeared.

Later, my best friend asked me how my work was going, and I said it was fine, it was pretty good! From regret at the beginning, to doing it first, to now wanting to do this job well.

Why did he say that?

I said: The regret I had at the beginning was because I gave up the job I liked; the reason I did it first was because I needed the job; and the reason I wanted to do it now was because I believed I could do it well. I even like this job.

Many times, we all know what we like to do, but we don’t know what we can do, so we are like blind people walking with lanterns, not knowing where we are or what we should do. Where to go. When others ask, we all say: I'm fine, I'm fine, I can still walk.

Then my best friend asked me if my job was good and what was the salary like?

Listening to his questions, I thought about the three months since I came to this city, each scene replaying in my mind like a movie.

? A front-line life between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m., cooking alone, eating alone, taking the bus alone, shopping for groceries alone, writing and reading when I’m sad, listening to music when I’m depressed Just listen to the radio and go for a run. No matter how difficult your life is, you can get over it this way. It’s no big deal.

It may also be due to acclimatization, severe body allergies, swollen body, itching and peeling skin, not having a good night's sleep, being insulted by customers at work and calling him a liar, which moved him to tears, but in the eyes of others, he was Routine, delicate and artificial. There's nothing you can do about it. All you can do is work hard enough to impress yourself and fight hard enough to be powerless. What’s more, we haven’t gotten this far yet. This world will never greet you with a smile or be extra tolerant just because you are a girl.

There is no end that cannot be reached, and there is no beauty that can be retained.

? (2)

? I like to listen to the radio while waiting for the bus, spying on every expression of the passers-by around me. I want to know their inner emotions, but I can't.

Looking at everyone passing by me, the dim street lights projected the tired figures of passers-by. Listen to the radio, write letters to yourself, sing to yourself, and release your emotions.

After working this week, I have to rush to the hospital to get an intravenous injection. It is almost twelve o'clock when I return to the hotel every night. Looking at the cold, dark room and the kitchen that couldn't smell any smoke, I fell on the bed and didn't want to move anymore. Only my colleagues in the next room were still analyzing the recordings all night long. The roar of the planes on the roof was still there, and the traffic and people outside the window were surging. This city is a city that never sleeps.

My friends often call me these days, asking me if my allergies are getting better, if I eat on time, if I have money to spend, and to keep an eye on me when I go back and walk alone so late... I I don’t know when we started to become extremely sentimental and sentimental. As long as there is a little gap, the unknown point will be infinitely expanded, defeated, and in the end we will become invulnerable and hard-hearted.

My friend said that he is now in a dilemma. His father calls him every day to ask him to go back and find a stable job and consider marriage. As for my friend, he doesn't want to give up his current job. He said that he has planned his own job. Although it is difficult to support himself with the current salary, he doesn't want to give up, let alone be willing to do so. He didn't know what to do, so he asked me to talk to him.

What can I say about this?

You are only twenty-two years old, you have the capital to choose what path to take; you are only twenty-two years old, you should not live a stable life; you are only twenty-two years old, you should know what you want to pursue What kind of life.

Look, there are so many people around you who are wandering and working hard in other places just like you. Some are so tired that they can fall asleep just by giving them a support, some are wearing headphones and have expressionless faces, and some are talking on the phone about work on the bus. We always think that we are working hard and working hard, but that is just an excuse for self-comfort.

In fact, you didn’t work very hard, otherwise how could you still have time to be confused, and how could you still have time to complain about the injustice that the world has brought to you.

No matter what your family and friends say, as long as you can be yourself, they will have nothing to say in the end. Because you walk the road yourself.

? You should stop asking yourself what you like to do, but ask yourself what you can do well. If you don't do what you like well, it's a waste of time. If you can do what you don't like well, how far will you be from what you like!

When you don’t know where to go, then try to take the path you can take now.

Don’t look back, and don’t think so far into the future. Nowadays, there are cement roads. Looking back, you can’t see the footprints of when you came. It only adds to the sadness and has nothing else. It is better to let his past go with the wind and the clouds are calm. The future is not something you think about, it is something you walk out of, so you just have to do your best and take every step you take.

? Finally, no matter where you are now, I wish you peace, joy, and an empty heart!