If the bottom girl is too fond of gold, she is doomed to live a bad life

Text/Tang Jingnuo

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Guide:

In Maupassant's short story "The Necklace," the author tells the story of a girl from an ordinary background who wants to live a high-society life and finally makes herself even poorer. She was born ordinary and longed for a glitzy life in high society, but because she had no dowry and no connections, she could only marry a small civil servant in the end, and suffered every day for not being able to live a flashy life. One day, her husband got an invitation to a high-society dance, and she happily borrowed a necklace to go to the meeting, but lost the necklace on the way, and in the end, she had to spend ten years of hard work to repay the other party. Ten years later, she met a noblewoman who had lent her a necklace, who told her that the necklace was actually fake. This story, for today's girls, is about building a correct view of money.

1. In the era of consumerism, the amount of material things has become the standard of happiness.

At any time, the material basis is the basic basis of happiness, and without this foundation, no matter how rich spiritually, it is an emptiness.

But the heroine of the story, Mathilde, is not a girl born into a poor family, she lives in a petty bourgeois class, and there is a nanny in the family.

This shows that her family's money is sufficient and has a certain surplus. She suffered for money entirely because of her own vanity and desire to live a life of high society.

Mathilde in the story is completely a secular and traditional girl, so her love of vanity is actually driven by the consumerist atmosphere of the time.

In that flashy era, the amount of money had become the only measure of happiness, and in such an era, life had been reduced to an external performance.

2. Consuming things that you can't afford will make yourself unhappy

Having more material foundations will give people more pleasure, which is beyond doubt. But this kind of pleasure is not a sense of happiness, and it can be done with or without.

If a girl, who does not have the ability to buy luxury goods and live a high society, but wants to consume them in advance, will make a mess of her life.

Nowadays, many young people are violated by consumerism, they consume in advance, borrow a lot of online loans, and finally regret when they are collected.

Such a move is no different from Mathilde in "The Necklace". Mathilde is also the essence of her encounter, that is, to consume in advance, resulting in her own ten years of youth to repay.

Girls should establish a correct view of money, do not blindly compare, if they have to get materials that they cannot afford, it will make themselves fall into the abyss.

3. True happiness is the use of life itself as a consumer product

Mathilde's real tragedy is that she is completely eroded by consumerism, and she has made the pleasure of consumption the meaning of her existence so much that she wants to live a life of high society.

So, in the prom, she would enjoy dancing with others, the joy of being watched by others, that she would lose her jewelry.

Mathilde is a person who has not found a real meaning of existence, so he will consume as happiness. A person who has truly found the meaning of existence will be content to live a life that is not flashy.

And these people all regard life itself as a huge consumer product, like some scientific researchers, they take the love of life as the meaning of existence.

Of course, in Mathilde's time, as a woman, she would not have these awakenings, but modern women can. A woman who lives a calm and happy life knows that life itself, more than any external consumption, is fun.