Many people dream of becoming superheroes when they are young, and when they are a little older, they may want to become a rich and successful person. Later, when they grew up as promised, most of them became ordinary people.
Therefore, some people feel that life is only a low, there is no climax; and some people feel that they are unwilling to be unwilling to live an ordinary life, while some people still regard themselves as a wind-chasing teenager in their hearts, carrying the breeze and bright moon on their shoulders, and their eyes are filled with tenderness and romance. However, reality always hit people hard, so in the past two years, "funeral culture" has become popular.
01Why is "funeral culture" popular in this day and age?
The first thing we need to know is what is bereavement culture? Bereavement culture refers to a cultural tendency in real life to show frustration because of the unsatisfactory life, study, career or relationship, losing goals and hopes. Generally refers to the young group of post-90s and post-00s in today's society.
A psychology teacher once said that there are many young people who are obviously doing well, but they have lost their purpose in life. The reason is that this generation is much better than our earlier generations, the standard of living, the material level is much better, more and more, the satisfaction brought to us by the material, it becomes smaller and smaller, so people will become confused, do not know what they want, what can make them happy. It seems that this is the root cause, is it true?
02 "Cool mourning" is a good medicine for "mourning"
Many times we need to look at the problem from a different perspective, so the "cool mourning" that we want to talk about at this moment has an essential difference from the "mourning" of the predecessors, so to speak! If you are a young man with age anxiety, long-term insomnia, low desire, and feel that you are garbage and other "mulberry symptoms", please read this cool new work "My life is empty, I want to do big tickets".
The author of the book, Alan Lue, born in 1969, is one of Norway's most prestigious contemporary best-selling authors. He has worked in mental rehabilitation centers, worked as a freelance writer for newspapers, and is currently a full-time writer and playwright.
His Nordic best-selling novels, I'm a Young Man, I'm Not in a Good Mood, the Norwegian version of Catcher in the Rye, and I Don't Like Humans, I Want to Live in the Forest, have been talked about by countless readers for 15 years, touching everyone who lives in a modern city, plays a role, and feels tired.
His new work "My Life is Empty, I Want to Fight the Ticket" has also been praised by 90 media around the world as "the showmanship literature of the gods", "unparalleled" and "magical black humor".
03 The vitality of life lies in creation, so create a theory and then prove it
The book tells the story of the 29-year-old protagonist Lou who feels that he is too ordinary and should do something big, such as wanting Norway to be on the world map, to level the world in one fell swoop, and to hurry up early and not late. And the most urgent thing is to create a theory and then prove it. He wanted to fulfill that wish so much. Gather a few of your friends and go on an adventure together.
In the first half of the book, Lou explains why he formed an expedition team, and he chooses Aven, Martin, Ruhr, Yunfu, Eger, and Kim, referring to a book that inspired him, "The Raft is Heavy". They all have their own strengths and characteristics. After forming a team of 7 people and going through team building, we began the adventure.
We knew from the outset that the purpose of their adventure was to prove One of Lou's absurd theories: he believed that the inhabitants of the Pacific Islands were South Americans long ago, and that the first island settlers had skated from the South American continent while the Pacific Ocean was frozen. They felt that by proving this theory they would be able to reinvigorate Norway on the world map and become a hero to the people of the country.
Can their wishes be fulfilled? In my opinion, the result does not matter, why didn't they just enjoy the process of this adventure? Emptiness is the need to do things, the need to go all out to do a big job, the need to experience the process of this pursuit.
Therefore, this book has been relished by countless readers for 20 years and has been selling well, sweeping 41 countries around the world, and it is also touching everyone who feels emo, age anxiety, emotional exhaustion, and feels that life is meaningless in modern cities. The joys and sorrows of Lu and his friends' adventures may have given these people a little heart.
04 The ghostly and incredibly interesting real adventure experience makes us immersed in the scene
The second half of the book corresponds to their diary of an expedition on a small island in the Cook Islands in the Pacific Ocean. Because the book continues The way Lu wrote novels as documentary literature among young people, it provides a wealth of evidence, including 30 full-color photographs of himself and his friends, and even a scanned copy of a reply from the king's secretary to "prove" that what he wrote was true.
It can be said that as a reader, you may feel that life can really be so incredible, so you began to think: in fact, I can also do something for my ordinary life.
If a thing isn't scientific, it's not necessarily a bad thing either. Love, for example, is unscientific. So is it really pointless to make a doomed attempt in the same way?
05 says at the end
The book is more like a novel, as if the author is sitting next to you and telling you: How did he spend the "empty years"? These seemingly meaningless goals and pursuits are actually meaningful. Think about how many years in our short life are truly ourselves.
Under the current social form, all kinds of anxiety problems are not uncommon, such as employment anxiety, education anxiety, "inner volume" anxiety, age anxiety... According to the "Report on the Development of China's National Mental Health (2019-2020)", young people aged 18 to 34 are the most anxious group among adults; unemployed, unemployed, retirees have the highest levels of depression, followed by the student group.
Many people know that long-term psychological pressure is too great, anxiety is bursting, will make people physically and mentally suffer, why is it still easy to be anxious? And how to alleviate it? We may find a shadow of the answer in this book.