Character is better than everything, lifestyle is the key

Mollie 2022-03-24 09:01:41



The story is set around 2004 and 2006. I was in junior high school and didn't have a cell phone.

Before I bought a computer in my third year of junior high school, my spare time was mainly watching TV and reading books. Now I think about how idle I am. There is no development of hobbies, no thinking about life problems. Occasionally overdo it on weekends, get up early on Monday morning to make up homework. After finishing the homework, I feel good, and I am glad that I escaped the disaster; Continue to go home. At that time, who knew that this was called "evasion", and how did they know that the word "responsibility" was worth a lot of money. All I know is that I have to sit in front of the TV and watch "Happy Camp" on time every Saturday, and secretly follow our favorite class teacher after school with my friends. At that time, I didn't know much, or, in other words, I was in the "stupid child" era.

The relationship between the protagonists Alex and Kate is connected through letter writing and real meeting, which is rare nowadays. Alex has a docile, peaceful and calm personality, and his whole person is clean and masculine, which is popular among people. And Kate is also gentle and compassionate. Both will think about life, live with depth, or at least peacefully and smoothly. It's not that vigorous, and a group of people continue to revel after the revelry. And just like The Lake House, standing quietly on the lake, the seasons change, the sun rises at night, the person who designed her has a heart that is observant, loyal to his profession and loyal to nature: Alex's father, and chooses to live in her - a four-sided They are all glass lakeside cottages with almost no privacy, and they are also people who love nature and live naturally.

Today's people, especially the younger generation, the rise of electronic products has completely changed our lives. A few days ago, I went to see the snow scene with my high school classmates. It was a rare meeting every six months. Before everyone had dinner together in the evening, everyone looked at their mobile phones, said a few words from time to time, and then continued to look at their phones. I said: let's play games, and they refused.
I also love electronics, they have brought countless conveniences to our lives and injected countless motivations into my profession. But what we modern people should not forget is that we actually have a lot more than that. You can call one or two friends to travel and see the world with your eyes and mind, instead of simply swiping Weibo to see the lives of people around the world. No matter what the weather is, you can bring a favorite book, quietly read it all day, take some notes, and feel the fun of this stillness.

During college, there were some of the happiest days: learning German in the second semester of college and reviewing for the final exam in the second year of college. When I was learning German, whenever I had free time, I would sit in the study room to read grammar books, do exercises, or practice oral English in the corridor. The pursuit of knowledge and the love of my profession made me very happy. At that time, I would often stay up until one or two o'clock to catch up with grammar points, and there was still class to be taught the next morning. But he didn't complain about being tired. Because your focus is not on tiredness, but on writing, new things and new knowledge in your mind. I remember a time when my instructor asked me how I had learned German, and I said it wasn’t good enough, and I did a terrible job on the mock exams. Then the teacher said, listen to your classmates, you are very hardworking and study late every day. Still have to pay attention to the body, and German is also good. At that time, this little bit of affirmation, I also thought it was very sweet. During the sophomore final exam review period, I got up at 6:20 in the morning and rested before 11:00 in the evening. There are 14 hours a day to review, and about 11 hours in the study room. Review the whole book systematically from beginning to end, and play repeatedly without knowing the knowledge points, until you get a small sense of satisfaction when you get it through.

Having said so much, and rambling so far, it is still the theme: character is better than everything, and lifestyle is the key. In "Twelve Letters to Youth", Mr. Zhu Guangqian mentioned the need to develop "something that you can trust in your spare time", and this thing should not be a mobile phone or a computer. When you go out of electronic products, Go and feel the things that really hold your heart, whether you are on the road or have found them, I just want to say: this is more of a real way of life that we should pursue.

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The Lake House quotes

  • Alex: [after he saw her at the subway station in 2004] I don't know if you remember but, we saw each other. That is, I saw you. You never told me... how beautiful you were.

    Kate: Well, maybe you saw someone else. That was a bad hair year for me.

    Alex: Long brown hair, gentle unguarded eyes...

    Kate: OK, OK. You saw me. But I still don't know what you look like.

  • Kate: It was you. Why didn't you tell me?

    Alex: You would've thought I was crazy or drunk. Or both.