Our presence
Yesterday, a friend from out of town chatted with me a lot on WeChat, in fact, I know that he has always been a successful career, at least a well-off family. After graduating from college, the life of hard work, even if it is hard, but, in his words: what I pay and my return is proportional, so the days have always been stable and rich, and there is no worry about food and clothing.
There are two companies under the name, one is a flat media, the other is a small workshop evolved into an entity, and the employees of the two companies are counted as forty or fifty people.
In the previous days, I rarely listened to him complain about anything, and the words and pictures occasionally posted in WeChat were sunny and upward.
But just yesterday, while we were chatting, he told me that he couldn't resist and had to retreat, and was ready to shut down the two companies, give the employees enough severance, and then file for bankruptcy.
In his words, everyone who has hope will insist, but he really can't hold on. The daily expenses incurred (rent, employee salaries, others) caused him to feel stress and helplessness that he had never felt before.
I advised him if he could hold on a little longer, maybe it would soon return to normal. He said that when the normal society is restored, there is no problem in living order, but my business can no longer return to the front, rather than the half-dead ordeal, it is better for the hero to break his wrist.
Of course, I understand that he is a person who pays attention to rules and morals, and after the outbreak of the epidemic, although his company has closed its doors, he should give it to employees. However, this state of only going in and out finally made him unable to resist.
In the face of this huge crisis, not everyone can be in the calm and patience of Tarzan collapse without changing their faces, and choosing to retreat may be a helpless self-preservation or a relatively safe method.
The world is not quiet and good, and those who advocate the quiet and good years are basically carefree in food and clothing, and then nothing is sour. The stinging sensation of reality is often unbearable.
Especially after experiencing such a pandemic, many people's lives are difficult to return to before. Therefore, it is really true that a grain of dust of the times falls on the life of an individual, which is a mountain that can crush the body and mind.
In the face of reality, any choice can only be made from the perspective of their respective needs. Nowadays, Hubei people who are gradually becoming normal, going out, but being rejected, this is the embarrassing and helpless reality, what happened to Hubei people? Who to provoke whom? It is they who suffer from the new crown, it is difficult to survive, to return to normal life and work, but they face blank eyes and rejection, the cold and warm of this world can be seen.
That day, I chatted with friends and talked about a topic, that is, in fact, for Hubei people, for Wuhan people, post-epidemic psychological reconstruction, or healing is a difficult process. Moreover, some people may not be able to survive this hurdle. Especially for families who have experienced life and death, and have suffered huge casualties, how survivors face the lives that follow is a topic that cannot be bypassed.
This is by no means an official compliment of a few words of "heroic city" and "heroic people" to make everything happy. When bidding farewell to the medical teams from all over the country, you can strongly feel the feelings and passions of Hubei people and Wuhan people, and you can't thank you, but it is enough to remember it for a lifetime.
What needs to be faced is life, is it a life that you have to face hard, or do you have to give in to the life you face?
Has Wang Feng's song "Existence" ever been desperate? Or resonate with you and me?
How many people walk but are stuck in the same place
How many people live as if they were dead
How many people love but seem to be separated
How many people laughed but were full of tears
Who knows where we should go
Who understands what life has become
Do you want to find an excuse to keep living
Or spread your wings and fly high to stay angry
How should I exist...
Finally we know that our self-righteously powerful, conceited "high-tech" is so fragile and vulnerable.
Is it really so easy to live well?!
Sunday, March 22, 2020