One beautiful morning, I was lying on the table reading Yu Hua's novels fascinated.
The watermelon in the class suddenly came over and said, "Ah Tan, that... Can you recommend me a few books?'
Watermelon is the main player of the school basketball team, playing forward, although the face is not handsome, but the height of one meter ninety-five is enough to make him look down on "all sentient beings".
Watermelon people are tall and not very good at talking, and the average person will involuntarily think of the words "simple mind and developed limbs" when he looks at him.
When I heard the words of the watermelon, I was stunned at first, and after repeatedly confirming that I had heard correctly, I said quietly: "Don't you usually hate reading books the most?" Saying that reading books is not as cool as playing basketball, there is no idea, and occasionally going to the library a few times is just a fire rubbing air conditioning. What's wrong with you today, the sun is coming out of the west?"
Watermelon replied wryly, "... Recently, I liked a girl from the Chinese department, her name is Mangkhut, and she is a famous talented girl in the Chinese department! I have heard people say that she especially likes literary and artistic boys, and usually likes to read books and write articles,... I don't want to make up the lesson quickly....".
In front of me, this man of one meter and ninety-five, with a large waist and a round waist, suddenly became unusual, shy and blushing, and my heart immediately stirred up a thousand waves, so I quickly waved my hand and said: "Okay, I know." I'll open a book list for you, and you'll quickly collect your idiotic expression--collect....".
I carefully referred to the taste of the girls of the Chinese Department, and opened a detailed "tuition" book list for watermelon from the three aspects of literature, history and philosophy.
After watermelon got the book list, he immediately took a taxi to the library in the city center and returned with a bag full of books.
Early the next morning, Watermelon confidently walked into the study room with a large stack of books, sat down, and then casually pulled out a book and began to read. However, he only watched for more than ten minutes and began to yawn, and in less than half an hour, he couldn't help but turn out his mobile phone and click on "Glory of the King".
When I went to see him again in the morning, he was already snoring on the table, his mobile phone was automatically turned off when it was out of power, and he was thrown aside, while the book in front of him was still stuck in the page number when he first began to read in the morning.
I said helplessly, "Watermelon, according to your efficiency in reading books, the list of books I gave you is enough for you to read for more than ten years."
The watermelon said grievously, "I want to see it too!" I didn't even participate in the basketball team activities in order to read and tutor. But reading books is really boring, and I can't understand what is being said in the book for half a day. I don't understand, how can the mangosteen goddess like this kind of thing!"
I encouraged him: "Then use the power of true love to motivate yourself, in order to catch up with Mangkhut as soon as possible, you must finish reading these books as soon as possible!"
Later, Watermelon finally opened his long-sealed reading skills and stayed up for half a month to read all the books. He also got his wish to get the goddess mangkhut, and the two of them often talked together on campus, which was very sweet.
However, the good times did not last long, and it was not long before the watermelon's character of not loving to read was exposed. When Mangosteen talked to watermelon about the "poetic thought of the four tragedies of ancient Greece", the watermelon was half a day old, and could only say one sentence: "These books are very good"; When Mangkhut and Watermelon talk about "the literary nature of Ostolovsky and Duras's works," Watermelon listens intently and thinks about the latest game in the "Liaoning Basket" or the NBA.
Slowly, the clever mangosteen finally saw the true attributes of the watermelon and took the initiative to break up with the watermelon.
She said: "I love watermelon very much, but he is not happy with my life. I don't want him to be so aggrieved to please me all his life, after all, the best place for watermelons is not the library, but the basketball court. ”
Although the watermelon after the breakup was depressed for several days, it quickly returned to its original sunny enthusiasm. He returned the large stack of books he had borrowed to the library and put on his sportswear again and walked into the court. I watched him run and play on the pitch and I felt relieved.
Later, Watermelon met the women's basketball team member Carambola on the court, and the two quickly developed into lovers, and the feelings were so good that they envied others.
In 2017, a "Ode to Joy" was popular all over the country, and the emotional belonging of "five beauty" in the TV series touched the hearts of hundreds of millions of viewers. Among them, the love between Dr. Zhao and Qu Xiaoxiu is particularly sweet and toothless. But in fact, the eccentric Qu Xiaoxiu's initial pursuit of the handsome and tasteful Dr. Zhao's method is also quite similar to the watermelon's method of chasing the goddess mangkhut.
Qu Xiaoxiu is unlearned and unskilled, well-behaved, and a layman who is full of "fireworks" and hates literature and art the most in her life, but these things that give her a headache are what Dr. Zhao likes. Qu Xiaoxiu can only clubbing, racing, and partying, but Zhao Qiping really enjoys reading, listening to classical music, and discussing Shakespeare's plays with Brother Wei. The two people should have been incompatible, but Qu Xiaoxiu took the initiative to change himself in order to please Dr. Zhao. She listens to classical music again, makes up novels and poems, and tries to learn and do business.
But when the two of them finally got together, Dr. Zhao said to Qu Xiaoxiu, "Don't change anything for me, just be yourself."
Therefore, the real love story must not be one party forcibly turning the other party into what they like, but both parties are willing to work hard for each other and become a better version of themselves.
Even if the initial flattery will make people temporarily touch love, this feeling based on deception will not last long. Because true love does not need to be obtained by flattery at all, the person who truly loves us must not be willing to change ourselves to please him.
In "Andersen's Fairy Tales", the story of the mermaid tells the same truth. The mermaid in "Daughter of the Sea" does not hesitate to sacrifice her beautiful tail and moving singing voice, but also to turn herself into the prince's favorite.
Although her flattery won the prince's favor, every step she took from then on hurt like dancing on the tip of a knife.
In fact, we all originally have our own charms, but some people always like to please others, in exchange for false love, the result is that they turn into bubbles little by little, humble to dust. Why should you wronged yourself in this way?
After all, life is not acting, and a truly cherished feeling must be based on reality. Because of the fear of losing each other, they choose to blindly cater to each other and constantly carve themselves according to the will of the other party, so that they cannot exchange for stable and long-term love, and they will also completely destroy their unique beauty.
We want to please our lover, but we want to make each other more inseparable from ourselves. But in the end, not only will it always be flattering - the party will be tired, but the party who is flattered will also be very proud and arrogant, and despise the hypocritical you even more. What is the point of such unequal love, even if you get it?
, so ah. If you want to have true love, you might as well try to become a more authentic version of yourself from now on! The feelings you get in exchange for flattery are always short-lived, and the person who really loves you doesn't need your flattery. People who don't love you, even if you exchange your excellent acting skills for his love, he doesn't love the real you, but your own self.