You have to work very, very hard to live a mediocre life.

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When I was a teenager, I always had infinite longing in my heart, whether it was for my future self or my future.

I remember that when I was in junior high school, there was a girl with whom I got along very well. We often got together to talk about dreams, the future, and our comrades’ interests. During the conversation, we often lost track of time and missed our evening self-study. .

I’m not afraid of making people laugh when I say it. At that time, the most important thing we talked about was university.

One wants to go to China Theater and the other wants to go to Beijing Film Academy.

In that dull and ordinary moment, weaving an extremely dreamy and beautiful idea has become our greatest pleasure.

We talked about dramas, performances, movies, and actors. We talked about the most beautiful words, and automatically filtered the real problems such as "how to work hard?" and "how to achieve it?" and beautified them into our hearts. The look that I hope for most.

I remember when we were talking about why, I said that I really like the sense of alienation that actors have that needs to be separated from reality.

I like that one person can reflect the shadows of many different characters, which makes people feel particularly dreamy.

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The only time when I was a little closer to my own ideas was in my second year of high school. At that time, a media training center from the city came to the school to give a speech. I remember that when the lecturer explained the direction of the media on the stage, my eyes were very hot, and my heart was pounding, as if I had been drowning in the deep sea for a long time. After a long time, I finally found a suitable shoal to beach myself and take a deep breath. At that time, I seemed to have my long-closed horizons opened and found another world.

But at the same time, I also know that this light will soon be extinguished. So I carefully gathered the crumbling light and returned home.

When chatting with my parents, I mentioned intentionally or unintentionally that I wanted to go into the media field.

They did not refute their ideas as quickly as expected, and actually began to analyze them with me rationally.

Your grades in school are considered above average, and you can definitely keep a job. Taking the media path is too risky.

The future employment opportunities in the media will be very narrow, and it will be difficult for many people to get ahead.

You didn’t pursue art as a child, so forget it.

In fact, I can particularly understand what my parents were thinking at that time. Their concerns also included mine. Perhaps it was also my inner struggle that kept me from speaking out. When I actually spoke out, I didn’t get too entangled.

For those of us who have struggled all the way through the journey of studying since childhood, taking the college entrance examination is the only way out. As for other thoughts, they are just entertainment in the long preparation process. , diversion, comfort and little self-destruction.

At first, I hoped to break free from the quagmire of mediocrity and find the shining self. Later, I found that I was slowly losing myself in the shackles of reality. I thought that we would eventually become mediocre.

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Lu Yao said in "The Ordinary World":

As long as there are people, the world will not be cold! We can be ordinary, but we must not be mediocre!

In this sentence, I seem to have a little understanding of the difference between ordinary and mediocre, although I don’t know if it is correct:

Ordinariness is a trait that everyone is born with. But mediocrity is a compromise of being willing to be ordinary. We need to work very hard and not be willing to be ordinary in order to get rid of the mediocre and inactive self.

"I originally thought that the life that can be seen at a glance is a mediocre life and a very scary life. But for many young people, the life that can be seen at a glance has begun to become a very terrible life. A luxurious life, a very secure life.

You have to work very, very hard, or be very, very smart, to eke out a mediocre life. "

This is what Jiang Fangzhou said in the issue of "The Round Table" about job-hopping. Regardless of whether it is correct or not, what she said touched me very much. This article is also what I read. I wrote it after having some inspiration after the program, and used the last sentence as the title of the article.

But I also want to say that you may need to work very, very hard to live a mediocre life. , but only in this way can you get rid of that mediocre self.

Maybe you have worked very hard, but your life is still mediocre, but it doesn’t matter, in the process of hard work, you are no longer. It's the original you.