It doesn’t matter if life slaps you in the face, just say thank you and practice practice quickly

1. Your express delivery has arrived, a slap from life

Pressing the elevator button on the first floor, I gave myself a smile that seemed to come from the heart in the mirror. , tidied up her hair and clothes, "ding" has arrived, the 19th floor can be reached directly at night, surprisingly so fast. It was already late at night when I came out of this very dazzling high-rise building. I took out my mobile phone and it was 23:23. What a coincidence.

I work as a janitor for a company here, and when they get off work, I go and clean the entire office. I often clean everything and look at their neat and orderly desktops, spotless floors, bathrooms, kitchens, and the scenery of the city center from the window on the 19th floor. I can't help but sigh, if one day I can be in a place like this , how great it would be to work as an employee.

The subway is also very empty at night, and with the howling wind, it is a good time to think about life.

I am 23 years old. After graduating from a prestigious domestic university, I came abroad to pursue so-called freedom. I have always wanted freedom, but the foundation of freedom is at least financial freedom, which I have never achieved. I was watching "Qi Pa Shuo" one day and heard what teacher Gao Xiaosong said, which roughly means, "If you want to pursue freedom and the West, you have to make your own money to support yourself and be consistent. You can't just say you want the West." "Free, but reaching out to Dongfang's family to ask for money." This sentence touched me very much, because I am the incompetent fake noble he said, who wants freedom but is not independent.

So I started looking for a job, only to find that it was really hard to find a job. My goal also changed from "translation/design intern" to "supermarket cashier/store shopping guide" and finally to "Cleaner". Originally, those careers that I thought were easy, or even careers that I didn’t value very much, required job training and related work experience that I simply couldn’t achieve. After so many years of learning Mao Zedong concepts, functions, vocabulary, and translation skills, I can only collect garbage, clean tables, and wash toilets.

Life finally gave me the first slap in the face after 23 years of confusion.

2. Thank you, the critical blow of life

I remember that there was a debate topic in "Qi Pa Shuo" on "Should I be grateful for the critical blow of life?"

I was still in my senior year of college at that time, and I didn’t have many classes. I occasionally took on translation work, and my life was very nourishing. Once I made 3,500 in 5 days, I talked to the elders in my family about the importance of knowledge in a very contemptuous tone. Although I didn't believe it myself, at that moment I had a bargaining chip. At that time, I believed what Ma Weiwei said, "Every flower should bloom the way it wants, and every tree should grow where it wants to grow." Therefore, the critical blow of life is not worth being grateful for.

Until I left the country, in the eyes of others, I might be brave, I might be free and easy, but no one thought of my downfall and embarrassment. I felt the critical blow of life, and I began to force myself to believe in the teaching that "heaven is going to give great tasks to people, and they must work their muscles and bones first." I began to admit that the critical blow was not a rationalized "snatching the seedlings to encourage growth." .

Forced by life, I became a cleaner. Fortunately, I did a good job and was a cleaner appreciated by my boss. My boss always gives me some private work that can earn me more money, and he always adds one and a half hours of salary to my working time. Do I care? I care, I can buy groceries for a week with one hour's salary. But I don’t care. I know that I can’t and won’t keep worrying about this hourly wage. I must earn an annual salary one day.

3. Without a slap in the face from life, how would you know that your heart is as high as the sky?

Maybe it’s because I’ve been spoiled since childhood that I have the fantasy of living in a greenhouse forever. That’s the case for me. To put it bluntly, children nowadays are living too comfortably. The sequelae of being an only child and the side effects of favoring sons over daughters have led parents to cherish boys as the only child in the family and dote on girls as if they were the apple of their eye. What we have experienced since childhood is always to satisfy our "wants".

Watching TV dramas, the rich second generation received scripts such as "I interned in my family's company, and my dad asked me to start from the grassroots level." We laughed and thought that if I were from a wealthy family, this kind of stupidity would Can I tolerate X plot?

But the reality is that none of us are rich, but we all live life with the spirit of a rich family. It is called respecting dreams, but the fact is that we cannot bear the real weight of life.

In the past, I never thought that my car, a good kid who had been a top student for 23 years, would one day drive onto the path of a cleaner, but now I know better that the car I was a cleaner As I live, I am more determined than ever to move to a higher level in the food chain.

People say "If you don't break, you can't establish." Without a slap in the face of life, how would you know that your heart is as high as the sky?

If you don’t burst the bubble of your fantasy, you won’t be taught the weight of reality, and you won’t know more clearly what you want.

It doesn’t matter if life slaps you in the face, just say thank you quickly and work hard to ascend to God.