Talk about the involution around you.

The word "involution" must be familiar to most people, especially the young people of today's era. Among the top ten buzzwords published by the editorial department of Chewing Words in 2020, "involution" is impressively listed. Different from the easy-to-understand words such as "working people", "learning everything" and "back wave", "involution" at first glance gives people a sense of movement, as if showing the terrible scene of being involved in a bottomless black hole.

Involution is a phenomenon that human society stagnates or cannot be transformed into another advanced model after reaching a certain form at a certain stage of development.

? The earliest "source" of "involution" is a few pictures of famous schools. Now many college students refer to irrational internal competition or "voluntary" competition. This word is widely circulated among college students, causing waves of online discussions.

Yu Shengfeng of China Youth Daily was quoted as saying: "The growth of young people's involution is partly due to their confusion about the direction of struggle and their future. The competition threshold is getting higher and higher, and people pay more and more, but they may not get the corresponding return. When work is difficult to relate to a higher life value, labor falls into a state of self-idling. "

? As a contemporary junior, I really feel the horror of this word. High GPA has become the only goal for everyone around me to survive. I feel guilty about wasting a little study time if I am a little slack. The push of "Bao Xue Yan Bar" in the official WeChat account is always the most read. I must feel that the day is not finished if I stay up until twelve o'clock every night. In order to get the usual grades, I try my best to befriend the class teacher, and my homework is always finished perfectly at the last second. Even the usual jokes have become "I will stay in graduate school when I jump" ... After the freshness of freshman year, everyone becomes very busy. I am so busy that I even think about modern history, do research tasks assigned by teachers, attend lectures, study the significance of innovation and entrepreneurship, eat bread when I can save time, never set aside time for exercise before the week of physical examination, and even chat with friends and have dinner, let alone fall in love and find a partner. Over time, it seems that even my family has become a time-consuming project.

Frankly speaking, I used to be like this. At least for one year, I looked at other people's colorful resumes and felt that I couldn't lag behind the subconscious and felt that I should be on a par with excellent people. But I'm really, really unhappy: anxiety during the day, insomnia at night, hair loss, it's getting harder and harder to concentrate in class, and my academic performance is not satisfactory. Fortunately, now that I have come out, I don't want to participate in various activities that can be promoted, and I am full of enthusiasm. I won't compete with the so-called big shots in my major or department. I don't study every day, and I don't read stories all around the words "fast" and "learning to bully" every day. This feeling of life is not what I want. Fame and power will not bring me death. If I am unhappy, then why should I make my youth look reluctant?

? I like my "carefree" life now: I follow my teacher to discover the mysteries of science in class every day, and I actually find that life is magical everywhere; After class, I closed WeChat qq to study the issues I am interested in, but there was a feeling that "everything I learned in the past was in vain". At night, no matter whether the venue is suitable or not, I can walk, run and jump, and I can experience the feeling of sweating and feel so happy. Open the "WeChat Reading" app before going to bed, wandering in the ocean of words, often forgetting the time to fall asleep because the story is too beautiful; In order to get up early, I must read an English essay. I like English more and more wholeheartedly. ...

? I want to record my life now, so that when I look back many years later, I can say, Wow, it's beautiful.