"before the age of 35 at the latest, if I can't get myself out of the ordinary, I'll kill myself." This is what a freshman said to writer Liang Xiaosheng after he gave a speech at a university. Although the young man may not think so after a few years, the fear and even hostility that many people dare not speak out about ordinary life is still thought-provoking.
In the comedy film Charlotte annoyance, which grossed more than 1.4 billion yuan at the box office some time ago, the protagonist Charlotte was particularly upset because, in the final analysis, "people accomplish nothing in middle age." The wonderful thing is that in a dream that stands out entirely by cheating, when he squandered his life to the opposite, he realized that mediocrity is the true meaning of life, which is both deliberate and full of disobedience. Charlotte said goodbye to the stolen luxury life without pressure, but expressed his hatred of the rich in a frivolous manner, but profoundly reflected his unwillingness to live an ordinary life: even a dream experience of wealth is worth it. The film is very popular, not only because the baggage shakes beautifully, but also because it happens to resonate with similar psychosocial mechanisms in reality.
People are not willing to be ordinary, the most common impulse is the desire for fame. Moreover, the younger you are, the stronger the illusion of overnight fame. Some people even say that it is too early to be famous, and if you come too late, you will not be so happy. It should be said that not willing to be ordinary, hope that life to maintain an upward posture, is the internal driving force of life, but also the ladder of social progress. However, when this reputation is narrowed into the superiority of social status and economic success, it has little to do with the inherent qualities such as bravery, honesty and goodness, people are easy to fall into the utilitarian quagmire and regard ordinary life as ugly and vulgar.
In fact, no matter what kind of starting point, hard work is the least bad choice. There is a good saying: if there are miracles in this world, it is just another name for hard work. It must be admitted that the road to success is not universal, and there are always a few who can rise from denominator to numerator. Our world has always been made up of the ordinary majority. If you fall into a certain cultural inertia and thinking misunderstanding, it is a big misunderstanding to regard ordinary life as a burden while emphasizing efforts, or even simply judge the value of life by personal achievements. For most people, ordinary days will accompany for a lifetime. Even for those who are successful, mediocrity is still the inseparable spiritual background of life.
Everyone should and can become a better person, willing to be ordinary, refuse mediocrity, this is the whole meaning of effort. To polish your best potential through struggle does not mean that you can reject the ordinary. A society that advocates struggle cannot take success as a measure of the value of life, because it will define losers in life at the same time. It is neither realistic nor fair to simply attribute one's unsuccess to insufficient efforts. How much it motivates people who are eager to succeed, how much harm it does to people who are in a bad situation.
No matter how far you go, ordinary life is there. There is an enlightening saying in the recent film my Girls: regardless of success or failure, human dignity and worth cannot be casually defined by other people by a certain standard. From this logic, to create a less different, more dignified society, the ordinary will not become a social anxiety.
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