Text: Qingyuenotes
We can't be beasts by the goddess Niigaki Yui.
The names of Japanese dramas are often full of metaphors, so I went to see them.
Yui Niigaki plays a 30-year-old OL Deep Sea Crystal, who holds an assistant position in the marketing department of a software company, and the ministerial position is vacant, and many things are directly assigned to her.
And colleagues, either the shrunken-headed turtle who is afraid of things or the old fritters who can get by and hide when they get by.
There is also a newcomer who needs to help (do) almost everything.
And even though she wears several hats every day, gives her colleagues a top bag, gives new people the aftermath, and is harassed by Party A, the leader still does not let her go.
The workplace is chaotic every day, and his love seems to be coming to an end. The boyfriend's four-year offer to stay has never been fulfilled. (Because the boyfriend took in his ex-girlfriend at home)
When she didn't know where her feelings were going, she wanted to like someone again to change her life.
Seeing the various workplace situations in the play, it is really too familiar.
Morning and evening rush hours squeeze into the subway of doubtful life
When I went to Japan, I specifically found a day to experience the subway in the morning rush hour.
Although I did not get on the bus, I really couldn't get on, and I saw that there were special staff pushing passengers into the car, and the people in the car didn't care about any social distance, and it was lucky to be able to get on the car.
In that immobile carriage, dignity, privacy, and decency were probably thrown outside the door when they desperately squeezed into the car.
Work from anywhere
Once, in order to give timely feedback to customers, I directly opened the computer on the steps of the subway exit to revise the draft.
At that moment, there is no time to take into account the eyes of pedestrians, just want to complete their work in the first time, do not want customers to wait too long.
The assistant baby once sent a circle of friends, saying that he had changed the draft on the high-speed rail, held a meeting on the bus, held a computer to board the plane, and changed the outline on the way out on the way out on the dangling sea boat... She said that by gathering seven overtime spots, she would be able to summon the dragon.
Can't wait for love
The deep sea crystal in the play, waiting for the boyfriend of four years to make a blank check. The assistant baby said she might still be lucky because she still has a boyfriend and she also has socializing.
I see more single young people, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, fixed companies – home two points and one line.
After work, don't say go to the tavern to drink, social fear, embarrassment and cancer make them not even have the courage to open the door again after they go home.
While waiting for love, while hiding in the network of less than 10 people, it seems that it is really only a matter of time before the expectation of love is lost.
This is real life.
Not only is there no bgm, no chasing light, no god assist, we are often caught in the darkest moments of life, trapped in the beast.
When you look forward to what will happen in the next second, so that you can regain your strength and regain your courage, you find that what happened is the last straw that crushed the camel.
We've all had moments like these. The moment it passes, it seems neither heroic nor dramatic.
When I look back, I even think it's a little incredible.
In "Last Night's Curry, Tomorrow's Bread", Tetsuko's husband, Ichiki, is seriously ill, and in the last stage of her life, she and her father-in-law go to the hospital every day to accompany Ichiki.
Although I didn't do anything in the hospital, I was exhausted on the way home every night and felt so tired.
She and her father-in-law passed by a bakery that did not close at night and bought freshly baked bread.
When she came home with bread, Tetsuko suddenly said that holding bread felt like holding a cat.
Then the father-in-law curiously took the bread and hugged it, and found that it really looked like it. Two people you hug for a while, I hug for a while, and finally look at each other and laugh.
"It turns out that no matter how sad you are, you can feel happiness."
In "We Can't Be Beasts", Shen Haijing would go to a tavern called 5tap for a drink every day after working overtime.
Usually drink a drink, on the weekend will drink from tap1 to tap5. This is the oasis of her life in the Taklamakan Desert.
One summer, I was flying continuously on business trips, and I was particularly tired when I got off the plane, watching the fading sunset in the sky, and the hot wind blew in front of me.
I suddenly stopped and watched the sunset for a while, and my headphones were playing my favorite Coldplay's "fix you."
And high up above or down below Life always has many ups and downs when you're too in love to let it go When you compromise because you love too deeply and don't get it back but if you never try you'll never know but if you don't try, how do you know just what you're worth is how you get yourself back
It seems that after listening to it for two minutes, it can be cured. I watched the sunset, silently shedding tears, and the backlog of emotions in my heart was gradually released.
The song was given by Coldplay lead singer Martin to his then-wife, Pepper Gwyneth Paltrow, to comfort her desperately broken heart over her father's death.
The first time I listened to this song was ten years ago, at an NBA event highlight, "Fix You" slowly sounded, and the camera flashed one slow-motion close-up after another.
What impressed me most was that a player might be injured, tears swirling in his crimson eyes and finally mixing with sweat on his forehead.
This song happened to be in the background.
And then every time I watch the NBA, or any other game, I always think about this song and this scene.
Later, this song gradually became the BGM that I walked alone on the turbulent road of my twenties, whether it was a business trip alone with a star and a moon, or working overtime at work until late at night and not being able to take a taxi to walk home.
Whether it's switching tracks, or converting locatiions.
Along the way, in the face of countless forks in life, into countless life difficulties, I will intentionally or unconsciously hear this song.
And the moment I hear the melody, I can always be touched by the life at hand and be healed.
I have gradually come to admit that we are all prisoners of life, and the darkest moments of life can still let us spend life.
Have you found an oasis that will nourish the Taklamakan Desert in your life?
Sun Qingyue: Media person, former CCTV foreign correspondent, inspirational role model for a new generation of women. The new book "Twenty Years, No Decade" is available online, and the article of the same name has brought hundreds of millions of people to tears. WeChat public account: Qingyuenotes, Weibo @ Sun Qingyue