What's your New Year's resolution on the first working day in 2023?

Today is the first working day in 2023. The sun did not penetrate the clouds, pedestrians hurried, and the cold wind blew the cheeks of "migrant workers" wantonly. I just entered the office this morning and sat down. I haven't had time to make a cup of tea, and a WeChat group has been shaking. Open it, and the group is talking about such a topic: What is your New Year's resolution on the first working day in 2023, and the national flag must be posted. One by one, I watched silently. It turns out that the banner of adults is really so material and realistic, and almost half of them are talking about buying a house and a car. I really want to despise their flag, but ask myself, I am not their fellow traveler.

1. We all live a material life and want to be salvation heroes. Later, I realized that the only person in this world who needs to be saved is myself. In 2023, I have been working for six years. In the city where I work, I still have no house or car. In the current fashionable words, he is an out-and-out "migrant worker". In the past six years, I started from a remote mountain village in the northwest and traveled all over the country. Stick to the belief of being born in the sunshine, but don't step out of sunshine avenue. Doing a seemingly decent job, but not living a life of food and clothing. I remember when I was a child, the older generation of "migrant workers" in rural areas never seemed to want to buy a house in a big city. They just wanted to work in the city to earn money, and it would be an honor to go back to the countryside and transform the dilapidated old house. Later, a new generation of knowledgeable "migrant workers" in rural areas completely changed their ideas after entering the city. They are eager to escape from the backcountry and take root in big cities, so they urgently need to buy a house. The house was originally used for living, but when it became a commodity, it became a symbol of wealth. After being wildly hyped, the space built by reinforced concrete is millions. Some indigenous residents rely on rent collection or demolition to easily realize economic freedom, and some migrant workers' loans are still reduced to "house slaves". In reality, many urban children with good family conditions, their parents who graduated from college bought their first house in first-tier cities, and bought improved housing, investment housing and so on after working for a few years. However, it is still not easy for rural children born in poverty to buy a house they just need in a big city. Just like a joke says: the end of your best efforts is sometimes just the starting point of others. This is reality, cruel and true.

I want to buy it if I can't afford it. Let it go. However, with the establishment of the family, many practical problems have followed. People are material and realistic animals, all want to get a better living environment, all want to strive for better employment opportunities, and all want their children not to lose at the starting line. So everyone wants to live in a big city, and it is the most developed city. To tell the truth, it is really impossible to develop in a big city without a house. For example, applying for a city hukou requires a house, and children need a house to go to school. Everything is necessary and everything is important. In addition, China people have a natural obsession with houses. In the traditional concept of China people, a house is home. If there is no house in the city, you are not a real city dweller. Of course, you can choose these, or you can choose to go back to the small county town of Route 18. But as long as you are ambitious and want to wear the crown, you must bear it. Buying a house is sometimes as scary as urging marriage. When colleagues and friends around you start talking about houses as soon as they meet, if you don't buy a house, the most embarrassing thing is that others ask you where to buy a house. If you answer that you didn't buy it, there is a soul torture waiting for you: the house price is going up, why don't you buy it soon? If you answer that you have no money, they will ask: Why don't you ask your parents to help you collect some money? As a rural child, you are embarrassed to say that your parents farm at home and have no pension. Young man, don't be depressed, because there is a gap that really can't be crossed. Don't try to compare with others, because others are the wealth accumulated by generations, and you are just a self-made teenager. But you have to believe that there will be milk and bread as long as you work hard. It's only a matter of time! What we have to do is to calm down and forbear and seize the opportunity.

Nothing is happier than living, and nothing is more difficult than living. The epidemic raged in 2022, and many people bid farewell to each other in this Boxer Year. After experiencing the epidemic, many people realized that nothing is more important than being alive. In 2022, a friend of literary and art circles died and suddenly left with her unfinished novel. I remember that in the summer of 20021,we also agreed to visit her hometown next year. Unexpectedly, after a sudden epidemic, she was gone. She's gone, which is also a relief for her, because her long-term illness has made her live extremely hard. It's really hard to live. I'm impressed. The day before yesterday, New Year's Day holiday. Playing in the street with his wife and children, I saw a takeaway brother accidentally knocking over a garbage tricycle. The plastic bottle on the tricycle spilled all over the floor. Uncle's hat hit the curb, revealing unkempt hair and dirty cheeks. Uncle lay motionless on the ground. The takeaway brother took out his mobile phone and turned it over for a long time, but he still didn't dial any number. Just listen to "plop", the takeaway brother knelt on his knees and burst into tears. I can imagine that the takeaway brother has a wife who expects him to send money to buy rice and noodles, a baby who needs nursing, and an elderly and sick parent. When they heard the news, it was a bolt from the blue. Such a scene is embarrassing and sad. After New Year's Day, I hurried back to work in the big city. Before I left, my wife took my three-year-old son to the station. When I pulled my suitcase into the station, my son, who had been laughing all the time, burst into tears and shouted "Don't let dad go" and "Don't let dad go". I can't help but turn around and walk away, tears streaming down my face. No one is a hero to save the world. Life is really hard, we have to take care of ourselves. In the world of adults, it is ridiculous to talk about ideals, and talking about material is dignity and decency. The world is in a panic, but the picture is broken. This reminds me of a story I read the other day. A woman stall owner in a night market is preparing snacks for every customer, but her two-month-old child is wrapped in a cloth bag on her chest. Very touched! It turns out that adult life is not as free and happy as I imagined when I was a child. Every adult who seems to live a glamorous life has a sad side. However, they are used to poisoning in the middle of the night and getting ready in the morning.

3. Being born in the sun, whatever you want, you will be worthy of the peace and security of the world and the Tathagata. Around Christmas, I attended my best friend's wedding, a match made in heaven, a pair of legal blonde hair. A grand and exquisite wedding is a gesture of paying tribute to six years of feelings. On New Year's Day, the sun is shining, and good news comes from good brothers. Their calf balls were born safely. On the first working day, I learned that this month's year-end bonus will be scored in the salary card. ..... A series of good news opened a new chapter in 2023. 2023 is also a special year for me. In 2023, I was thirty years old. New Year's wishes are: family security, good health, smooth work and happiness at four o'clock. Realize your wish. I wish everyone, the New Year flag, can be realized.