"Growth Education": How to identify middle-aged perverts

Josefa 2021-11-28 08:01:19

Bob Dylan sings in the song: "How many roads must a man walk down, Before they call him a man." (How many roads must a man walk down, Before they call him a man.) These words are one-sided, but they are actually one-sided. If a girl wants to be called a "woman", she has to walk no less than the masters.
Just like Jenny, after knowing her mistake, she went to the headmistress to beg for a chance to return to school. For this reason, Jenny blamed herself for being a ruined woman. The headmistress immediately smiled calmly: "You still You're not a woman" (You're not a woman). As soon as I said this, I knew that Jenny's return to school was inevitable—the Western saying goes: Young people make mistakes, and God will forgive them. Since Jenny is still a girl and has made severe self-criticism, the school has no reason to reject her.
But girls also have a girl’s destiny, especially Jenny, who likes to read Camus’s books, likes to listen to classical music, and prefers the romantic feelings when shopping in Paris. Well, she is also a young girl, in Jenny’s own words. : "Silly schoolgirls are always getting seduced by glamorous older men." (Silly schoolgirls are always getting seduced by glamorous older men.)-That's it, uncle control is almost a life stage that every girl must go through. Especially young.

Compared with the rebellious Dean in "Rebellion Without Cause", Jenny is much more polite. She is just a bit tired of the boring life and life prospects of bourgeois. The appearance of the married middle-aged pervert David just fills Jenny’s This emotion is blank. My father kept talking about Oxford and Latin exam results, only David would take her to high-end auctions and restaurants, and occasionally overstepped the old lady’s famous paintings, and then went to Paris to indulge for a few days. Fake a fake proposal with eight hearts and eight arrows. For Jenny, who is in love with her, how can the charm of the middle-aged yuppie man David be blocked?
From the moment David gave Jenny flowers, I knew that this old man is not a good thing. The girl looks full of love and romantic gifts, which is just a cheap discount for middle-aged men. It's just a commodity. Remember, middle-aged men tend to dress themselves maturely, well-dressed, and from time to time highlight their lower abdomen and artistic taste, and inadvertently show off their credit cards and knowledge reserves in the conversation-one can always give A man who brings fresh gifts and knowledge means that a girl is constantly getting freshness from him.
Well, let's summarize, a middle-aged man who meets the above characteristics is a typical middle-aged pervert. If he does not show any pervert behavior, it is not because he does not want to, but does not dare. 90% of these old men have a family. Yes, he will definitely tell you that he is unhappy and is getting a divorce-pull it down, you can't get married at all. If you are divorced, there is nothing left. How can you cheat? The next little girl? Go and ask his wife, who are you the little girl he seduce?

In stark contrast to David is Graham, this freckled little boy is Jenny’s peers, but at Jenny’s house, Graham talks dumb and behaves in embarrassment, as soon as David wore a trench coat and drifted there. Where does Graham have a place?
Girls, remember the phrase Jenny said after she woke up: "The life I want, there's no shortcut." Growth comes at a price, and the biggest price is time. It is unfair to compare Graham with David now. The old man just grabbed a heart and arrow and jenny couldn't open his eyes. However, I have reason to believe that the future of Graham will be much more glamorous than the current David. Graham’s decision to suspend school has actually revealed this kid's very personal side-middle-aged satyrs are not all naive now. Boy evolved?

There are no shortcuts in life. Aunt Bai Wanqing taught us that men can't really mature until they are forty-five years old. This actually means that girls have to give boys more time to grow up. The boys are naive and ridiculous, they are incomprehensible, and they don’t know how to pity and cherish jade. However, they just want to find a lover for a while and talk about divorce but never Don’t put it into action. When acting on the spot, I don’t pardon the girl. I only put my career first. I will never take my lover seriously. I will only give a little favor to the girl. Although their love looks crude on the surface, they are sincere in their bones, but they need time to forge it. Learn to cherish it, girls, after passing this village, there is really no shop. Two people grow up in love with each other. Isn't it the most beautiful life experience?
In fact, this problem is the same in reverse, but if a girl really volunteers to be Song Siming’s junior, like seaweed, then Xiaobei can only consider herself unlucky—for Xiaobei, if it’s Jenny, then Sooner or later, everything will get better. It just takes some time and tolerance; if you encounter seaweed, you should die early and live longer.

(Published in "Oriental Morning Post" on March 3, 2010)

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  • Jack: We have to have this out. Well, if you won't do it, I will. I'm still your father.

    Jenny: You're my father again now, are you? And what were you when you encouraged me to throw my life away? Silly schoolgirls are always getting seduced by glamorous older men, but what about you two?

  • Helen: Someone told me that in about 50 years, no one will speak Latin, probably. Not even Latin people.