The happiest thing in this life is to recognize themselves, return to reality no longer make mistakes for young and crazy, no longer pursue unrealistic ideals, people are a complex animal, we are always growing in the process of constant reconciliation with ourselves, who can recognize themselves in the process of reconciliation is the real epiphany. In the book "Ordinary World", there is such a character, wandering for many years to let his wife and children go, bent on doing big business and big business, in the end only to run a green silk to turn white hair, holding a mirror to see his aging appearance, decided to let go of obsession epiphany life, embarked on the road back to his hometown.
Wang Manyin in the book is an unpopular existence, except for his wife, who is a treasure, no one likes this lazy young man, not to mention that in the era of urgent need of labor, people gave him the name of "wandering ghost" and "second-rate son", and he did not care after all, he really did not care about it since he was a child. Wang Jiazu's family was well-off, and he had also produced talents to be "bagong" in the local area, and then his grandfather smoked a big cigarette and defeated the ancestral inheritance, and by the time his father's generation had been mixed with the name of "second-rate son", he was now mixed into this way. Wang Manyin was born in the war-torn years, his mother gave birth to him in an earthen kiln, his father ended the life of a second-rate son in a few years and did not leave a family property for his mother, his mother raised him and left him when he was nineteen years old, this time he really became a second-rate son of a lonely family. At that time, China had been liberated, and as long as such young people participated in labor, they would not be hungry.
In a few years, when I saw that the people around me who were similar in age had already had a hot wife and children, I couldn't be alone, I had to marry a wife to manage the family business. Other people's families are the media concubine's words clear that the media is marrying, he is good to respond positively to the free love advocated by the organization, the orchid that first opened in the love sinus where to resist the disturbance of this ghost, the orchid father knows that this matter is almost out of breath and half dead and is opposed by the whole family, but the female eldest is not in love with this ghost. A few years later, Wang Manyin also had a pair of children, when the whole family thought that he would converge on his nature, he actively responded to the country's reform and opening up policy to go to the sea to do business and go to the world, leaving the children to take care of the family no matter whether they relied on the old man and the brother-in-law, the wife and children of the family could only see him at the New Year, buy some novel objects to coax the children's wives to be happy, and disappeared again after the Spring Festival, and the poor orchid could only work alone at home and look forward to his return.
Wang Manyin, who was doing business outside, actually took a Nanyang woman home one year, and this wanderer climbed into the woman's bed while the orchid fell asleep, and the orchid ran out to eat the rat medicine. Wang Manyin knew that a catastrophe was imminent, and if something happened to Orchid, his two brothers-in-law were expected to swallow her alive. The orchid was not eventually drugged to death, and the family's consumable medicine was made by Wang Manyin himself in the early years, of course, there was no medicinal effect. After experiencing these things, I originally thought that I would be happy to treat this good wife well, and if this was the case, it would be a great joy for everyone, but it was not long before he began to shop again.
Wang Manyin came to Shanghai and bought many cheap and thick socks to sell in the north, which was previously defined as a "speculator" but now it has been reformed and opened up. Wang Manyin, who lived in the hotel, picked up the mirror and looked at his appearance, his hair was gray and wrinkled, and he did not dare to face such a strange self.
This is me? Am I old? Wrinkles on your face? Gray hair on your head?
He was in a daze in front of this mirror for a long time.
This wanderer couldn't help but lie on the table and cry, his snot and saliva teardrops mixed with a face...
Wang Manyin seemed to know from this broken mirror who he was, who he was, and what kind of life he had lived in the past.
"I have to go back!" He said to himself.
Suddenly, the wanderer began to miss his children, his wife, and the home in the broken courtyard. Man, it's incredible!
Indeed, sometimes, a very fortuitous factor can change a person's life.
— Chapter 48 of The Ordinary World
Oh, yes! Wang Manyin has been shopping for most of his life, neither allowing the family to live a good life nor accomplishing a thing, I did not understand such a person when I was studying before, and Sun Shaoan, who was also a farmer, took root in the land to let his family eat white steamed bread and rebuilt a new house. Sun Shaoping became a coal miner to support himself with his own labor, only Wang Manyin was a wanderer, when I gradually came into contact with this social matter, I understood Wang Manyin more, it turned out that there were many people like Wang Manyin in this society, maybe I was too.
Going to college and being exposed to the culture and vision that small counties and towns have not been exposed to, desperate to break out of a world to prove themselves, alone to an unfamiliar world, doing work that they like or dislike, and enduring the psychological pressure of 996,007. When one day we will also find our gray hair and wrinkles in the mirror and suddenly wake up", "I have to go back!" I don't think Wang Manyin's life is not worth it, on the contrary, I think he is the most perfect person at the end of this book, with a wife and a pair of children who can't be abandoned, and he has a place to return after a wandering life. Of course, we must also recognize that reality lives in the real world, and we must not live a life in a vacuum.