None of us have tried our best to live an ordinary life

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01.

In the morning when I was practicing the third course on the road, the coach never talked to us about topics other than driving practice. Uncharacteristically, he said he was going into depression.

He said: You will know when you are my age. Life is not easy, and I am very tired from the pressure. Other coaches said that I often talk to myself. I don’t know. What I see outside is Things are black and white.

Our coach is just a 25-year-old young man, not much older than us. He takes us to practice every day, no matter the wind or rain, and we have to go back and forth around this fixed route every day. Returned countless times.

His circle of friends is full of outdated jokes. He seems to be crazy, but in fact, he also has a heavy heart that he does not tell others. Like other coaches, he goes to work every day, but he actually has to endure so much.

I remembered the sentence from "The Ordinary World":

The streets are still crowded with busy people. How many beautiful things have disappeared and been destroyed. What does the world still look like? Didn't happen either.

Yes, life goes on.

Life is always beautiful, but human suffering happens all the time...

02.

There were three classes in the three years of junior high school. Perhaps it was fate that a girl and I were in the same class three times, so we became very good friends. We ate together, went to the bathroom together, slept in the same bed, and were inseparable. She has a cheerful personality and a low point of laughter. She laughs boldly at every turn and cannot control her laughter.

One time during class, I whispered a joke to her. She couldn’t control herself and kept laughing. The teacher called her to read the text, but she couldn’t stop laughing and couldn’t read the text. I felt very sorry for being scolded severely by the teacher.

Shortly after the start of the third year of junior high school, she was told by her teacher to go home quickly, saying that her mother had passed away.

After hearing this, I felt like a bolt from the blue. How could a good person just say no and disappear? I just remember that when she heard the news, she was so frightened that she cried and was at a loss.

It turned out that her mother was riding a bicycle to pick up her younger brother and was hit by a drunk driver's car on the way. She died on the spot and her younger brother was injured.

Until graduation, I never saw her smile again. During the days when I got along with her, I was careful not to mention what delicious food my mother made for me. What.

Even if I tell her the jokes I learned specially, she remains indifferent.

In high school and college, we were all in different schools, drifting apart. We quietly looked at the different lives of two people in the news, and clicked a like to tell each other that I am still paying attention to you. .

Not long ago I saw her long-lost smile, and it turned out that there was a boy who was very kind to him, and she liked him very much. From a distance, I just hope that she can laugh for a long time and bury the pain in her heart. After all, life has to go on.

Later on, she must have met a lot of people and made a lot of friends, but few people knew that she lost her mother early. This was fine, she was living a normal life like other girls, at least it seemed like that.

03.

An inconspicuous old man in the village cultivates one-third of an acre of land with his own efforts, and has lived with a stupid wife all his life. When they grow up, they ask their mother why he married a fool.

What does it matter if you are stupid or not? So what if it's even a burden on life? She was his only relative in the world, and it was a blessing to have someone to take care of and worry about.

A ten-year-old boy is silent and keeps to himself all day long. In the past, we thought he was introverted and honest, and everyone laughed at him, bullied him, and ostracized him.

Later, I heard from a neighbor that he was abused by his stepmother all day long, and his father didn't care at all. The little boy was forced to cook and wash clothes all day long, and he would be beaten if he did not behave appropriately.

We were in our early twenties and he had grown up. Fortunately, after not seeing each other for many years, he grew into a handsome boy and could go to college and leave that unhappy family.

There are many, many people in this world, and there are also many, many unfortunate people who will not write their pain on their faces and tell everyone who sees them.

Once we have scars, we want to cover them up. Rather than sympathizing and being discussed, maybe we just want to live like ordinary people, appear in the crowd, and be drowned in the crowd.

It was then that I discovered that being able to be submerged and live an ordinary life is a very happy thing in itself.

04.

Twenty percent of the people in the world occupy 80% of the wealth, and 80% of the people occupy 20% of the wealth. , so most people are neither above nor below, just average.

Since they were born, they have been working hard under the nagging of the previous generation: Only by going to school well can you get ahead, the future of our family depends on you; look at how outstanding other people's children are.

When I was a child, I was particularly afraid of watching TV with adults. In the program, children several years younger than me talked on the stage, or danced and sang, winning rounds of applause.

Due to family financial reasons, I did not have the opportunity to learn any talents. In addition to going to school, my life consisted of doing housework.

I would run away every time I saw children performing on TV, because every time my mother would praise them in my ears: Whose child is so awesome, their parents would be so proud.

Maybe parents are vain and hope that their children can be superior to others, but I have always been that ordinary person, even though I was really serious and hardworking in school.

Although I move slowly, I never stop.

I was so serious that I still went to an ordinary university even though I repeated my studies, and there are still many people who got admitted to Tsinghua and Peking University in one go. I tried my best, but I still lived an ordinary life, and I still couldn't see the lives of people at the top.

05.

The end of the semester is here, and we will rush to the station and be drowned in the sea of ??people.

It is always said that the elusive graduation is coming, and we will soon flood into the society, drowned in the crowd, looking for a job, maybe hit a wall at every turn, maybe by chance, all in order to support our family. , continue walking on this ordinary road.

The end of life is death. We spend our whole life not pursuing death.

Liu Liangcheng said in "A Village of One Person" that after a few years, a person will find that the so-called road is just a decoration, a game for those who wander around in circles on the earth. .

It never deviates from its true purpose. If you don’t believe it, ask those people who are always walking in a hurry on the road, have they reached their destination? No. Otherwise they wouldn't be wandering the road endlessly.

(The pictures are all selected from "Petals.com")

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