What's the scariest thing about a social terrorist?
Is it the confusion of colleagues when they cheer?
Is it the ridicule of colleagues when forced to attend the party?
Or is it obviously unwilling to deal with anyone, and HR is still relentless in the pressure to let you join the interest group?
While most workplace dramas are trying to portray the story of a strong woman in the workplace, JTBC's latest episode "My Runaway Diary" focuses on an ordinary social terrorist girl.
This drama broadcast 6 episodes to get a high score of 9.1 on Douban, and almost all people who have watched this drama have given the same evaluation - real.
It does not follow any plot routines, does not satirize the chaebols, does not have thrilling love stories, and does not have superpowers to save the world, but shoots the survival dilemmas of contemporary urban youth in detail.
The female protagonist Lian Meijing is a standard social animal + social terror.
When working, be cautious and cautious, after submitting the plan, you will always pay attention to the mood and dynamics of the leader, and constantly revise your own plan.
Colleagues can hide from dinner, but they can't hide in the corner, watching colleagues talk and laugh, afraid that the center of the topic will shift to themselves.
When you hear others commenting on themselves and talking nonsense, they will also pretend not to hear, never willing or dare to argue with others.
After work, I'd rather sit alone in a café and work overtime than stay with my colleagues.
Every day, I rely on fantasizing about having someone to love, to get a little comfort in life.
In the plot of the first few episodes, Mei Jing's lines are very few, basically passive questions and answers, and most of the time Mei Jing is immersed in her own world and talks to herself.
Except for the occasional fantasy that he has someone to love, the rest of the time is self-doubt, self-denial, and seems to be not interested in anything.
Such a beautiful jing is not like every socially fearful young man.
Unwilling to deal with colleagues too much, there is no social entertainment activity, sometimes silent in their own small world, do not want to be disturbed, sometimes self-doubt, feel that they should be ordinary, but deep down they still hope to appear a soul that is completely compatible with themselves and take themselves out of this boring life.
But the man never appeared, and never seemed to appear.
Mei Jing also has an older brother and a sister in the family, although they are not the same social fear as Mei Jing, but life is not much better.
Although the three brothers and sisters work in Seoul, their home is in Gyeonggi Province, and they spend more than 3 hours a day commuting.
If you miss the last train one day, the three sisters and brothers will agree to take a taxi home together. Not because of good feelings, not for security reasons, but just because of saving money.
If the bright and green Seoul is compared to an egg yolk, then the place where they live is the egg white around the egg yolk, tasteless but helpless.
The eldest sister, Lian Jijing, is the leader of an investigation company, and her work is repetitive and monotonous.
Because the family lives far away, there is basically no nightlife, and all the time is spent on the way home.
Her biggest wish is to find a man to fall in love with and enter into marriage. As if to do so, all the hardships of her life can be solved.
It's not so much that she hates to marry, but more because she's lonely.
Ten years of doing repetitive work, there is no too much time to contact new friends, meet new people, so the hope is pinned on men, pinned on marriage, eager to find different companionship and surprises from love and marriage, so as to escape from the life that she deeply hates.
The second brother, Lian Changxi, is an agent of the convenience store chain, responsible for coordinating and handling various chores in the store.
After 8 years in the field, I have not been able to get a promotion. I don't have any plans for my work, and I yearn for the future, and I have to get by every day.
His girlfriend hated him and broke up with him. Before leaving, I did not forget to taunt him.
Back and forth, there have always been only a few friends who have played from childhood to adulthood, full of dissatisfaction with life, but have not made any effort to change.
As the only son in a traditional family, his parents also demanded more of him than his two daughters.
But how could he possibly satisfy his parents? People in their thirties want a loan to buy a car and carefully earn their father's consent. Even if you turn on the air conditioner, you have to beg your mother first.
In Chang-hee's perception, the reason for all these difficulties is that he was born in Gyeonggi Province, and if he had been born in Seoul, he would not have the embarrassment he has now.
He pinned all his hopes in life on the "sudden" transformation that took place.
Pray that at some point in the future, your life can be changed dramatically.
The encounter of the three brothers and sisters represents the current situation of almost all contemporary young people.
Longing for love, longing for marriage, longing for redemption, longing for change, longing for work to be recognized, longing for the luck that fell from the sky to sweep away the embarrassment before. Dissatisfied with the status quo but without courage, so they can only live unwillingly.
It felt like being locked in a cage, unable to breathe, desperate to escape, but unable to find an escape because they didn't know where they were being held. I can only grit my teeth and keep insisting.
In stark contrast to the helplessness and resistance of the three sisters and brothers of the Lian family to life are their parents, an ordinary rural couple.
Every day the sunrise and sunset rest, with hard work to raise three children, numb, repetitive life, the only hope for life is that the son can "fight for breath".
They can't understand the eldest daughter who is listless all day long, and they can't understand the second son who is "idle" all day, and they will only lament that the children do not understand things, and sigh all day long.
In the eyes of parents, only the third daughter who does not say a word after work and diligently helps herself to work in the field is the most sensible and worry-free child.
They bear physical exhaustion and cannot empathize with the mental hardships. It's very much like the parents of today's young people.
At first glance, this drama will feel a little monotonous, which is not the same as the routine of ordinary Korean dramas. The protagonists' disease-free groans are more or less pretentious.
But as long as we calm down, we will find that this drama seems to be closer to our lives than some workplace dramas suspended in the sky.
There is no ups and downs of the plot, no moving love that overrides everything, no encounters with dog blood, no shocking life twists, and some are just the most real way of life.
Will secretly shed tears because their own plan is denied;
Will feel uneasy because it is the focus of the topic;
Will long for the heavenly generals to take us away from the humble real life;
Will self-denial, feel that they deserve to be ordinary;
Will unconsciously fantasize about some "ifs" and "originals";
I will also feel extremely happy because of some small things.
In the same way, because of cowardice, they will choose to escape the problems encountered in life.
But can avoidance and meaningless prayer really solve the problem? If everything we prayed for happened as we wished, would life have to be different?
In fact, in everyone's heart, there is a positive answer.
Running away is never the right life choice, putting your hopes on sudden luck and finding a solution to someone else's problem is better than starting with changing yourself.
The first to try to "declare war" on life is the little sister Meijing.
Because she is unwilling to join the company's fandom (interest group), Mei Jing is called by HR to talk again and again, and Mei Jing has the same trouble as the human spit machine minister, the single father section chief.
All three of them were reluctant to participate in social activities with "purpose", and decided to become a "liberation fraternity" at Mei Jing's suggestion.
There is no clear meeting goal, no fixed form of gathering, and some just completely "let go" of themselves and find a way to "break through" the dilemma that suits them best.
Sometimes running away is not an escape, but another kind of acceptance and beginning. As long as you are willing to take the first step, many problems can be solved.
From early morning to dusk, what are we running for?
I don't know if you, who live and work in a big city, have you ever thought about this problem for a moment.
Is it to live a better life, to realize your ideals, or is it simply to cater to the world to make yourself seem less ordinary?
We always aspire to be the "Ziwei Star" in the prophecy, but in fact, most of us are just ordinary people, without extraordinary talents, without amazing beauty, and without the capital that can make ourselves lie down and win.
Those things that are readily available to others seem to be possible only if they work hard. If there is a slight unhappiness, he begins to give up on himself, complaining about the injustice of fate, and complaining about the incompetence of his parents.
But who says the ordinary must not be another kind of brilliance?
Although unique is precious, it can make every ordinary little day tasteful, not a good thing.
We have no way to decide where we come from, but we can start by changing our attitude towards life and declaring war on our own ways and in life.
Maybe one day in the future, you will find that life is slowly becoming what we want it to be.
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