Just the day before yesterday, my childhood friend Ah Zong sent me a photo, I clicked on it and was stunned for a few seconds.
Unexpectedly, he had a second child so soon.
The photo is a group photo of him and his wife holding their newborn child, the picture is very warm, the couple's faces are full of happiness, and at the same time a little tired, it is estimated that they stayed up all night.
Ah Zong was the fastest to have children among our group of friends. After graduating from university, he chose to return to his hometown and become a secondary school teacher instead of staying in the big city to work.
Although he does not have outstanding achievements, nor does he have the same gorgeous income as in first-tier cities, every time he chats with Ah Zong, he can feel his satisfaction with his current life state from his words.
He works diligently, supports his parents, takes care of his children, accompanies his wife, and can live a steamy ordinary life.
I have heard a saying: "Everything extraordinary in the world must return to the ordinary in the end, and its value must be measured by ordinary life." Greatness, wonderful, and success are nothing, and life is complete only when the ordinary life is truly good. ”
I think so.
The happiness of life is not obtained in applause, vanity and desire, but in the end, it is necessary to find the inner home in simplicity, tranquility and contentment.
Ordinary is the background color of life.
Liang Shuming said: "The biggest scam in this era is to treat desire as ambition. ”
We have been urged to chase success since we were young, and superficially listed the signs of success as houses, cars, and tickets that are visible to the naked eye.
But few people teach us how to accept failure and how to accept our ordinariness. It wasn't until one day that I realized:
It turns out that nine out of ten people in this world come from ordinary people and eventually return to ordinary people.
Writer Feng Tang said in his "Life in the Second Half of Life, Hello":
Past experiences have become insights, and illusions of the future have vanished.
The heroes of the past have awakened their dreams, and being able to be alone is already the greatest contribution to society.
Choosing the ordinary, not choosing the mediocre.
Instead, they dare to abandon those so-called magnificent and ethereal fantasies, focus on finding the life they want, do not grandstand, do not complain, and live their own wonderful life.
Zhou Guoping said: "There are three times of growth in life, one is when you find that you are no longer the center of the world, the second is when you find that no matter how hard you try, you can't do anything, and the third is when you accept your ordinariness and enjoy it." ”
Many people stop at the second step, not accepting their ordinariness, but becoming the enemy of the ordinary, and then falling into endless suffering.
In the movie "The Nameless", auxiliary police officer Ma Xianyong has always wanted to become a formal police officer, and paid a heavy price for this obsession.
In order to make meritorious contributions, he did not hesitate to risk his life and use his body to fight against firearms; he was obsessed with his work, but neglected to care for his family;
He loves to be strong, he was involved in a drunk driving accident, his wife was tragically killed, his sister was paralyzed, and his daughter broke with him.
What he doesn't understand is that his daughter just needs an ordinary and ordinary father to be able to accompany him.
When he was seriously injured, his daughter returned to him, and he finally learned to reconcile with his ordinary self.
Reading history for 3,000 years is nothing more than fame and fortune, and 9,000 miles of enlightenment is ultimately a pastoral of poetry and wine.
How many people strive to pursue the extraordinary, but in the end, they will lose a lot of ordinary happiness.
Pu Shu sang in "Ordinary Road":
"I used to cross mountains and seas
It also passed through the sea of people
I used to have it all
In the blink of an eye, they were all scattered like smoke
I was lost, disappointed, lost all directions
Until you see the ordinary, the only answer"
Maugham once said in "The Moon and Sixpence": I tried my best to live an ordinary life.
A hundred years of life will eventually become smoke, not afraid of the ordinary and not complaining. We are like fireworks, we have seen thousands of wonderful, and when we are older, we will return to peace.
Perhaps only at the end can we find that the ordinary is the only answer.