Some people say that if you can really read "Relief Grocery Store", you will also understand life.
As one of Keigo Higashino's "Four Great Works", it is not the most important novel, but the most characteristic and warm work.
Affection, love, family, dreams... Those of us who are entangled in life, who do not understand life, and who are wandering in our hearts, can all be understood from this book and cured by "Grandpa Langya".
In this life, we have many confusions and are faced with countless choices.
Making decisions that you don't know if you're right, and walking the path you don't know if you're right.
We use the way of groping to find the answer to life, but we are also confused in the search.
But life is like this, no matter how you choose, you will regret it after all.
And those truths about life may be hidden in these countless choices.
No simple black and white good and evil
Discern between good and bad hearts
Keigo Higashino once said:
"There are two things in the world that cannot be looked at directly, one is the sun, and the other is the human heart."
We all say that human nature is inherently good, but good and evil can never be generalized.
No matter how kind a person is, there will be dark moments in his heart; no matter how vicious a person is, there is also a soft side in his heart.
Just like the three thieves in the book, they grew up in an orphanage, went to high school, and began to work to earn money after graduation.
Due to the Japanese recession, Shota was laid off for no reason, Yukihei lived a life of upheaval and displacement, and Tun was swept out of the house for helping his colleagues.
More unfortunately, the orphanage where he grew up was bought by a wealthy businessman who tried to engage in illegal activities.
One after another, the three people deeply resented the world, and they complained about the injustice of fate, and thus went astray.
In retaliation for the rich merchants' purchase of the orphanage, they sneaked into the rich merchants to steal, and then fled in a hurry.
Later, Yin and Yang mistakenly came to the Langya Grocery Store, trying to hide there for a while, but accidentally opened the way to solve problems for others.
Help Moon Rabbit face her heart, encourage Krone to stick to her dreams, and suggest that Harumi study hard...
They are full of malice toward the world, but they also use their hearts to help and patiently answer the puzzles of others.
Human nature is so complex that good or evil are only appearances.
And in this world, there is never only black and white, and we cannot make a conclusion for a person from the surface.
As Maugham said:
"Meanness and greatness, malice and goodness, hatred and love, can coexist in the same heart without mutual exclusion."
When people live to a certain age, they will always understand the complexity of human nature, and they can also clearly understand that they should never overestimate the goodness of human nature, nor underestimate the evil of human nature.
Life, in the midst of constant choice, moves forward in a daze
There is a saying that goes like this:
"When you are old and look back on your life, you will find that when to go abroad to study, when to decide to do your first career, when to choose a partner and fall in love, and when to get married, are actually great changes in fate.
It was only at that time that I stood at the fork in the road, saw the storm clouds, and made a choice, in the diary, quite dull and ordinary, and I thought it was an ordinary day in my life. ”
In this life, people make choices all the time.
And many times, those seemingly fateful turns are actually hidden in every choice.
Fencer Yuetu learned that her boyfriend was suffering from cancer during the Olympic training camp and that his life was only half a year away.
She wants to accompany her boyfriend on the side, but she can't let go of her Olympic dreams, and when she is in a dilemma, Moon Rabbit decides to ask Langya Grocery Store for help.
This was the first time that the three thieves had received a letter, and they knew that Japan was not participating in the Olympic Games at that time, so they tried every means to hope that Yuetu could also dispel the idea of participating in the competition and concentrate on accompanying her boyfriend.
But Yuetu finally chose to continue to fight for the Olympics, and only met once when her boyfriend was dying.
Unfortunately, despite her best efforts, Yuetu still did not pass the Olympic selection, but she did not regret it.
And the boyfriend's words "Thank you for the dream you brought me" before his death made Yuetu feel warm.
"The road of life is sometimes getting narrower and narrower, and sometimes it is getting wider and wider. But every choice is destined to leave countless regrets. ”
In this world, there is never the best of both worlds, and every decision has some regrets.
Life, will not be because of this little bit of regret, and stop the pace of choice. Each of us will eventually have to pay the price for these choices.
Many people say that sometimes they are confused, overwhelmed, and do not know where to go.
But people are not like this, the reason why they are confused, but because they only know the choice, do not understand the action.
Make decisions in your choices and move forward in your decisions.
The important thing about the path of life is not what you choose, but the responsibility for your own choices.
Life is good or bad
You don't have to wronged yourself and fulfill others
I've always liked Miss Harumi, the last consultant at The Relief Grocery Store.
In order to repay the parenting grace of their parents, they strive to be a good employee of the company, and even disregard the eyes of the people around them, to become a wine escort, just to ease the economic situation at home.
Later, through the help of three thieves, he realized his financial freedom and ushered in a life of opening and hanging.
Cai Kangyong once wrote:
"From childhood to adulthood, what we have heard the most is: you have to be sensible, you have to be patient, you have to understand a little bit of human sophistication.
But no one tells you: you have to be happy, you have to be yourself, you have to live for yourself once. ”
In this life, many times, we are always accommodating others, always thinking of enduring the calm of the wind and waves, taking a step back from the sea and the sky.
But there are always such ungrateful people, facing the tolerance of others, they are righteous and strong, and they are not polite in the slightest.
But everyone's life is only once, so why bother yourself in order to complete others.
Pay too much attention to the eyes of others, take care of other people's emotions, and in the end you will only be wronged yourself.
Man, one day you will understand that in the end, life is your own life, whether good or bad, it has nothing to do with others.
Although a poet wrote many poems, but has never been famous, he went to the temple to complain to the Zen master.
After listening to his words, the Zen master pointed to the plants outside the window and said:
"Do you know what kind of flower it is?"
"Let's incense at night."
"Then why does it call for night incense?"
"Because it only blooms at night."
The Zen master asked again:
"Have you ever wondered why it never opens during the day?" The flowers that bloom during the day are intended to attract attention and be seen.
And the night incense is not to get praise, but to aromate oneself. ”
In the final analysis, life is all about your own life, so why should you wronged yourself and fulfill others.
As the saying goes, "The Tao is different, not a conspiracy." ”
Instead of pandering to others, be yourself.
Man, living according to your own will is the most important.
When the road is not clear, learn to work around
Life goes smoothly
There is a saying: "Poor change, change is general, general is long." ”
There are many ways to succeed in life, if you only choose the simplest and most direct method, it will only limit your own development.
Learn to be flexible, know how to turn, in order to achieve success faster.
In the book, Krone gave up his studies for the sake of his musical dreams and went to Tokyo.
He spent three years proving himself, but in the end he achieved nothing.
After the death of his grandmother, Krone returned to his hometown to worship and looked at his elderly father, as the only child in the family, whether to continue to adhere to his musical dreams or go home to inherit the "Fish Pine" fish shop.
Such a difficult problem makes it difficult for Krone to choose.
In desperation, Krone had to confide in the Langya grocery store about his troubles.
After the three thieves saw the letter, they were at first puzzled by this idea:
"It's not okay to eat with music, but let's face reality and be a fish shop owner."
Krone heeded the advice and prepared to give up music, but his father stopped it:
"If you go all out again, it doesn't matter if you lose the battle in the end, at least you left your footprints."
His father's encouragement filled Krone with courage, and he returned to Tokyo again with confidence.
Participate in competitions, send audition tapes to your company, give condolence performances to orphanages...
But no matter how hard he tried, he never became a singer.
Until Krone lost his life during a condolence performance at an orphanage in order to save the child.
In order to repay Krone, the child's sister grew up to become a singer and reinterpreted Krone's masterpiece "Rebirth", which was remembered by the world.
In life, everyone has moments like Krone who are overwhelmed by the future.
I can't see the way forward, but I don't know how to continue.
Lu Xun once said:
"There is no road in this world, and the more people who walk, the more it becomes a road."
Everyone aspires to success, but there is more than one path to success.
Many times, a turn, maybe another piece of clarity.
Mountains and rivers are doubtful and there is no way, and the willows are dark and the flowers are bright and another village.
Don't always cling to your own ideas, change your perspective, learn to be flexible, in order to make yourself realize what you want faster.
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After reading this book, you will find that those unknown philosophies of life, those who once seemed to understand the truths that they did not understand, are gradually absorbed in the process of reading.
And the stories in those books have become the best healing medicine hidden in the depths of the heart.
Keigo Higashino once wrote in the book:
"It is precisely because it is a blank piece of paper that you can draw a map at will, everything is in your own hands, for you, everything is free, and there are infinite possibilities in front of you." 」
Maybe we've been confused, we've had uncertainty about the future.
But it is precisely because of this "uncertainty" that I have unlimited possibilities in my life.
Light up "watching", may everyone's future be as they wish, make the best choice, and live the most casual life.