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(This article was first published on WeChat public account: Liu Ruxing's car Yaoyao)
1.
Recently, "Longing for Life" ended, and Liu Xiaoyi's puppet drama was the most touching.
When he asked the children what their dreams were, some said they wanted to be astronauts, some wanted to be painters, some wanted to be singers, and some wanted to make money and let their families live a good life.
They are all pure and beautiful, and innocent dreams.
I'm sure everyone has been asked the same question as a child.
"What career do you want to be when you grow up?" "What are your dreams?"
I remember that in my elementary school class at that time, about half of the people said that I wanted to be a scientist, which seems to be what I said.
Later, as far as I know, no one in my class was engaged in any kind of research work, myself included.
This is very similar to Guo Degang's jokes,
"When we were young, the teacher asked us what we wanted to be when we grew up. I was the only one in my class who said that I wanted to talk about cross talk. The rest of the group said they wanted to be scientists. Over the years, I did it. Those scientists can't even eat now. ."
Hello everyone, I'm the scientist who can't eat.
2.
Children's dreams are always pure and beautiful, but few can persist to the end.
Many people have grown up, under the hammer of life, have learned to give in, hunched over and stooped to live.
For many ordinary people in society, the harder they work, the more unfortunate they are.
The movie "Sorry, We Missed You" tells such a story.
In order to buy a house, the male protagonist Ricky voluntarily chooses to become a courier.
He has worked in carpentry, plumber, foundation, excavation, cement work, roof repair, floor laying, paving... all kinds of odd jobs related to construction.
There are not many choices left for him, and becoming a courier can actually increase his income a lot, which is regarded as an increase in income.
As long as he works steadily for two years, he can earn a down payment for the house, and he no longer needs a family of four to rent a house to live.
This is a very reasonable wish.
But this is even a luxury dream for many of our new generation in China.
In "It's All Good", Lao Meng said a paragraph to Su Mingyu, which completely changed Su Mingyu's life in the future.
This sentence becomes more appropriate in today's society.
Even if you work for 10 years, you are still very poor, you still cannot afford a house, and even if you are sick, you cannot afford a ventilator.
3.
We might have to go to Hegang to buy a house, but Ricky had a chance to buy a house in Newcastle, UK, so he became a courier.
When joining the job, the supervisor told him that you are starting your own business, we are a cooperative relationship, there are no performance indicators, it is very easy .
Just like domestic Didi drivers and courier brothers, they earn commissions based on the number of orders.
But the supervisor's words also implied a routine, so Ricky set foot on the 614 life of working 14 hours a day, six days a week.
And this is mandatory, because there is no need to find someone to replace it, otherwise it will be deducted 100 pounds, and if it is not delivered or overtime, there will be additional fines.
Simply put, if you don't do a good job in one day, you need to put in hundreds of pounds.
Ricky worked so hard, so desperately, to make his family live a good life, in exchange for the father and son to turn against each other, the family almost broke down.
Parents leave early in the morning and come back late. When they come back, the children are already asleep. When they go out to work, the children have not yet gotten up to go to school.
Although they are in the same family, it is difficult to see each other, let alone how much parent-child time they can have.
In addition, the son's ideas and the father's expectations were inconsistent, and they made mistakes one after another. In the end, all that was left was quarrel, and then mutual hatred and guilt.
This is exactly the same as how many Chinese parents and Chinese families get along.
As ordinary parents, they work hard every day, just to let their children live a good life, all they think about is "for your own good", but there is no parent-child time at all, and they never understand their children's inner world. Just ask them to work hard according to their expectations.
These parents must sometimes think,
"Why is my life so unfortunate, even though I work so hard to make money, just for this stinky boy, but he still wants to piss me off like this."
As everyone knows, parents are waiting for their children to thank them, and children are also waiting for their parents to apologize.
4.
The life of ordinary people is roughly like this cycle.
If you are lucky, you will be able to collect the down payment and provide a house in your life.
If you are unfortunate, you will struggle with food and clothing every day.
Do we have a chance to break this cycle?
It's hard , Ricky tells you !
One day on the way to deliver the courier, Ricky was beaten by three gangsters, his eyes were bruised, his head was scratched in various ways, he was kicked all over his body, and then many couriers were also stolen.
During the hospital check-up, Ricky received a call from the supervisor, who said only one word of slight concern, and then emphasized 3 things:
"What about the unstolen parcels left in the car?" "There are two passports in the stolen parcels, and one is 250 pounds. This insurance can't be reported, and you need to pay for it." "Used for work. The scanner is broken, and you have to pay £1,200 a piece."
Ricky's wife, a love and peace caregiver, swears swearing for the first time in the show, and breaks down with the supervisor on the phone.
But how did it end... Ricky was half-limbed, couldn't open one eye at all, and had gauze wrapped around his hands and head... Continuing to get out of the car to work.
The family chased out and frantically stopped the car from leaving, but they still couldn't stop it.
Otherwise, what can we do?
I still have to go to work, 14 hours a day, six days a week. Otherwise, what will I do with the rent next month, what will I take to eat, and how will my family pay for it?
You have become part of the larger system of society .
5.
I once saw two people who temporarily escaped the cycle of "the harder you work, the more unfortunate you are".
One is Yang Di. At that time, he was working as a small worker in a TV station. He accidentally spied on the salary of a senior who had been in the industry for many years. He quickly fled and transformed into an artist.
What he saw at the time was actually a gloomy and hopeless future as he continued to work hard in his original position .
Another is an Uber driver I met abroad.
His dream is also to buy a house, and his essential job is to process airplane meals in a factory near the airport, which is the kind of work that earns the minimum wage.
Working 40 hours a week from 9 to 5, it was impossible for him to save money.
So he would drive Uber after get off work and work 80-100 hours a week.
He told me that I only sleep about 4 hours a day and spend the rest of the time working and spending time with my family.
Although he also worked the same long hours as Ricky, he didn't complain about it.
When chatting with me, all the words revealed are the joy of running towards the dream.
He made me feel that when we can't change our lives, we can change our attitude towards life.
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