The 23-year-old girl suffered an accident when she was studying in Taiwan. More than 60% of her body has been burned, which will mean that she will be afraid of heat, sun, and beautiful dresses for the rest of her life. During the initial painful treatment, she cried twice or twice a day, became numb to everything, felt that life was meaningless, and even thought about suicide.
In a flowery age, because of a fire, the fate was completely rewritten.
I think of three other women.
She used to be a housewife, mother of two children, her husband cheated on her, and she has been out of work. After the change at home, after finally finding a job, her husband was imprisoned, his beloved man died and was kicked out of the office by the company partner.
She is a dazzling figure in the legal and political circles. She has planned to retire in two weeks, and has set her sights on a manor in Provence as her next life residence. The day after she signed the retirement agreement, she was suddenly told that a foundation where all her savings had been invested was nothing more than a "Ponzi scheme", which meant she was bankrupt. A woman in her late sixties, lost her job and property, how will she live?
She has a very rich father, and because of her father's relationship, she was given a very good job opportunity as soon as she graduated. But, overnight, her dad became a prisoner. She became the object of ridicule, was fired from the company, and was hit everywhere.
The three women above are Arya from The Good Wife, Diane and Maya from The Good Wife.
Sometimes life is like a drama, with sudden changes in direction, like the 23-year-old girl who was burned by fire. And the drama is also reflecting the truth of life. I thought that if you marry a good husband, you can get some protection in life. Unexpectedly, the dream world collapsed in an instant. Or you may be successful and famous in your life, and you can enjoy your old age, but disasters will come. Or overnight, the princess became Cinderella.
We always like to bless and comfort others: Your tomorrow will be better. Or expect and think: my tomorrow will be better.
There is also a side-by-side title in that twenty-three-year-old girl's story article, called "Tomorrow probably won't be better, admitting that is how I live." This is a sentence that is extremely sad to read, however, when you look closely at life, you will take it for granted.
The 23-year-old girl said:
"I can only face my pain.
I have to work harder than others. It is not trying to cover up the scars and whitewash the pain, but to support the ordinary life.
I came to know that negativity, sadness, despair, and pain are the inherent tribulations of life.
When she admits and accepts the grief that life imposes on her, she still chooses to work on it. That's what moved me too, because it's more difficult than fighting pain. Arya, Diane, and Maya all stuck to it.
In the face of her husband's betrayal and career failure, Arya still insists on what she wants: happy life and control my fate. She is a middle-aged woman who started as an assistant for people younger than herself and slowly found a career direction. After being forced to leave the company, he started an independent business in his own apartment. Diane went to work on time the day after her bankruptcy, covered her crying eyes with her sunglasses, and told her estranged husband, "I'm great."
When Maya was attacked and scolded and hid in the toilet and cried, another heroine named Luca said to her: "Be strong and don't care what others say. Work hard, work is your best friend. Don't watch TV, Stop surfing the Internet and read books? Then read books well. It's difficult now, but it will pass."
Perhaps, in the world we live in, any one person will reach the trough at that time in a certain tomorrow at different times. What's even more sad is that you don't know how much time and effort it will take to walk through this trough.
I have a friend who studies the Five Elements Book of Changes and has a very meticulous research on the current situation of the movement of elephants. Once, I asked her, does everyone have a fixed destiny, or can we really predict the situation and direction of a lifetime? She said that everything in the world is constantly changing, and no destiny is immutable, and no amount of precise calculation can know the quality of each tomorrow. As ordinary people, all we can do is to do our best.
I used to be full of pessimism and depression about things like fate, good and bad, and whether tomorrow would be better. Sometimes I also hope that there is a special function that can predict the fate of tomorrow, in order to hope that tomorrow will be good and beautiful. Later, when I also experienced late-night crying, changes in various choices, and the hardships of life that I had to accept, I realized and accepted that this is life for what it is.
From then on, I stopped writing empty consolations like "Tomorrow will be better" in my journal, and I didn't expect any miracles to come. Through every dark hour before tomorrow? This is a proposition that one has to face while living in the world.
In many cases, tomorrow will not necessarily be better. Like a 23-year-old burnt girl, after experiencing countless dark nights and feeling that life is meaningless, she said: Now, my expectation for a better life is: I can stand up straight, and I can squat down in the future. Must be able to walk for more than half an hour. All the little things will come together into a big one, be patient.
Perhaps, when we do not blindly wish and expect a better tomorrow, but try our best to be patient with the task at hand after every cry, and strive for more light and strength, even if the night is very dark It is long, and it can also go to the other end of it.
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