This is the 205th issue of The Spiritual Food of Fortune Reading
The author | Chen Folding Ya
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Hey you good friend, I'm Xing Fuchuan~
Today to share with you a high praise answer under the hot question:
Why are today's young people more and more pessimistic?
01
When I think about it occasionally late at night, I always feel that the times we live in are so strange.
Paradoxically, when the whole country joined forces, I felt that I was living in such a powerful country, such as the Olympics, such as the fight against the new crown.
When I look at myself as an equal individual in a whole, I am so proud and longing.
So much so that I can forget the embarrassment and stubbornness of my current life and be willing to sacrifice everything for the sake of this whole.
But once my gaze shifts from the whole, the whole separates, and I look inside, I will be deeply desperate and sad.
So many people are still struggling on the subsistence line, such as those rural families who work hard to farm the land for a year but may not earn more than 10,000 yuan, and ordinary families who are destroyed because of an illness.
These people, just to get a slight quality of survival qualifications, need to pay for freedom, dignity, and health.
02
But even so, they were even disqualified from crying bitterness and lying flat. But there are also so many people, living in houses of more than 100,000 square meters, and casually stealing hundreds of millions of dollars to calculate taxes.
These people, who control the right to speak of public opinion, even if they have become above everyone, but they talk about how tired they are every day, saying that they only sleep very little every day.
Saying that those who are poor are actually because they don't work hard enough.
I asked myself, is such a gap really determined by hard work or not?
Apparently not. I often feel that a person's ability to endure pain depends on two things. One is the degree to which the pain itself is inflicted, and the other is the individual's perception of the suffering it suffers.
It is true that compared with the people of the 70s and 80s, the comprehensive quality of life of young people has indeed improved by more than one grade.
I believe that this is also the biggest reason and battle that most ordinary people who are struggling in the mire can endure today's life.
If there is not even such an overall improvement, then the gap between people inside is huge than between people and dogs, and the powder keg will be completely detonated.
Such a thing is not without the lessons of the past, the disintegration of the giant in the north, or because of this.
03
Such a huge stride and ascension over decades has indeed eliminated the force of pain inflicted on us, at least, no one will starve to death.
But the growing individual differences, as well as the overall improvement of national quality, have infinitely magnified everyone's perception of pain. "Do not suffer from widowhood but from inequality".
When the second half of the sentence "let some get rich first" was delayed, and even returned with 996.
When Bai Yansong, a figure who regards himself as a public voice, naturally says, "Is it that we are now counting on low housing prices, and then work is found everywhere, and there is no pressure at all."
When the entertainment industry internet celebrity circle often evaded taxes by eight or nine hundred million, but still complained on the platform that they were hard and had poor treatment.
When all these things appear naked in front of you who are nothing, how strong and tenacious do young people need to be so that they are not pessimistic?
I would like to ask, why should a person be condemned if he only clearly recognizes the truth and humiliatingly accepts the truth?
What would happen if, without everything changing, or even intensifying, even the last bit of pessimism and disqualification would be stripped away, God knows.