How hard is it for a one-track-minded person to live?

In the ups and downs of 2020, it seems an extravagant hope to be able to move firmly in one direction.

In my circle of friends, the former driving school coach sells cakes; When the screenwriter sells e-cigarettes; A stall barbecue that originally sold e-cigarettes; The shopkeeper who sold cigarettes at the gate of my university for more than ten years suddenly asked me privately two days ago if I wanted to have a cat. Marionettes are short of money, but they are cheap-everyone rushes into the sea like holding a bamboo raft, not thinking about where to drift, but how to survive in this wave.

For today's young people, there are too many obstacles to a single-minded life: some people say that you are obsessed with a dead end, some people say that you don't consider the consequences, and some people say that you don't know how to be flexible, but you just didn't say the word "stupid X".

But when you really meet a few single-minded people in your life, you will always be moved by them. In addition to moving, there are some regrets.

I am a 35-year-old filmmaker with no wife and children. His parents always tell him: Don't stay in Beijing, just go home. As long as you can bring a girlfriend back, the car and wedding room in the capital city of Northeast China will be arranged for you.

As a result, in February this year, my hometown sold the wedding room, and my parents didn't know about it until they arrived in Tomb-Sweeping Day. They bought a berth ticket for one night directly and came to Beijing to confront him. Unexpectedly, he has rented a studio in Dawanglu Film Industry Park. In the office, he told his parents: this year is his last shot, and he can't shoot anything with this million yuan. He will go back to the northeast to find a short video company to work next year.

When he was drinking, he told me what his mother said. She said that life is not chicken soup, and the house keeps its value down to earth. How much can the art theater get back? Why don't we make a short video now? After all, pigs can blow like the wind.

There is also a sister from the Chinese Department of Peking University who can obviously go directly to work in a big factory after graduation, settle down and buy a house to achieve a better life. But she ran to a publishing house and worked diligently to generate electricity for the love of the sunset industry. As a result, my monthly salary is less than 5k, and I invite my friends to her 13 square meter rental house for drinks every day. When she is drunk, she recites Bishop and Plath in public. Every time I go to her house, I just want to bring her more fresh vegetables and pork belly.

I met a young artist at a reading party in the sister dormitory of Peking University. We once found a convenience store in Sanlitun to grab wine. When they were both in a coma, he suddenly invited me to his house to see his "art collection". I climbed six flights of stairs with anticipation and came to the dark room facing the northwest. He turned on the light, and I was shocked by what he saw-he collected waste products for years, such as grotesque chairs or abandoned tricycle license plates, and then reassembled them into strange "sculptures".

She insists that photography is not for worldly success, but for the cause she really loves. Persistence is not a burden to her, but a kind of love. Success after death is just an extra gain for her, and her persistence in "one track mind" has made her happy enough in her lifetime.

Looking at the boring text of Baidu Encyclopedia, I suddenly understood that my worry about my friends is actually unfounded. They are actually Vivian Mayer, but they are really cute adults, keeping children.

Adler once expounded a point in Inferiority and Transcendence: Everyone has a goal in his heart, and some people suffer because the goal they set is difficult to achieve. Whether it is "admired by others" or "recognized by others" or "being the most successful person", it is illusory and endless, and it will pull between ideal and reality, and it will be painful because of persistence.

When the goal is just to do what you love, one-track mind is no longer an ascetic, but a kind of enjoyment.

When I went to a physical skateboard shop to choose a skateboard last year, I had a very speculative chat with the owner. Before I left, he called me to the warehouse, as if to show me some secrets-four or five boys who looked under 20 were sleeping on the floor. The shopkeeper said that these young people are drifting north and have to work in bars at night. Only in this way can they get off work at dawn, and only in this way can they have time to practice the board. Only when the noise of the city is all asleep, the streets and squares in Beijing are their sports grounds.

A drummer who lives in a rented house in a big city, even if he has the energy to practice drums at night, will be taken back by his neighbors with a shaker, so they put down their drums and quietly beat their pens (beating drums with pens and hands); When I visit a friend's house of a guitarist, I can always see that their small dining table is full of instant noodles, but their synthesizers are always polished, as if they have never been contaminated with a trace of life dust.

One-track-minded people are stupid, but they are also stupid and cute, so cute that you can't bear to criticize them for being "better for themselves" because they are moving at full speed on the road they choose.

Fortunately, this is an era when everything you focus on can pay off: autistic boys who hosted the Pinball Olympics gained millions of fans; Invented the manual Geng of useless tools, which became the source of joy for everyone; Those boring artists who insist on counting how many grains of rice are in a bowl of rice and how many seeds are in a strawberry have inspired many idle netizens ... Everything is not empty talk, and "one-track thinking" can also usher in their spring.

To pay tribute to the "one-track mind" life, Vanke launched a series of creative videos called "one-track mind", which used the "nonsense" life comedy to turn daily life into an imaginary theater. Anything is possible, which is us.

It's just a rib | Vanke Group brand promo _ Tencent video

Every great building is supported by countless "one track-minded". Every achievement in life also needs "one track-minded" efforts. We are all "most people", maybe we don't have that much courage, and we are always afraid to act when we want; Maybe not so much persistence. In the face of difficulties and obstacles, I will always say "it is shameful but useful to escape"; Maybe I don't have that great perseverance. I will always walk home and lie flat in the face of a strong opponent. ...

Those who are single-minded are not. Their goal is what they love. As long as you stick to your dreams, you will certainly get inner enrichment.

The significance of their life lies not in universal social values, but in their strong yearning. No matter how the secular eyes judge them, they are all real' heroism'. After they know the truth of life, they choose the way they love life and stick to it.

Whenever you make a "one-track-minded" behavior involuntarily in your life, it is actually the child in your body who is full of enthusiasm for the world and winks at you naively and firmly.

One day, when you truly recognize what you love and are determined to be another "one-track-minded" person, Vanke will pay tribute to you and sincerely wish you happiness.