In the blink of an eye, most of 2024 has passed.
In the past six months, we have been swept up by the trend of involution, consumed by the trivial things of life, and must have lived very tired.
We are always anxious about the status quo, worrying that we will make too little money for a while, and being afraid of being looked down upon for a while, wanting to lie down and not winning.
How can we get rid of internal friction and restart the second half of the year?
I'm reminded of a hot comment on the Internet:
"If life makes you wronged, go read Lu Yao.
He will bring hope, courage and light to all who are lowly, and let us know who we are and how far we can go. ”
As a giant of contemporary literature, Lu Yao's life is like a meteor, fleeting.
But the works and ideas he left behind have inspired generations to forge ahead.
When you feel that life is too tired, you might as well read Lu Yao's most classic 6 sentences.
I believe that these words will recharge your batteries when you are in a trough.
About Origin:
My starting point is very low, and if I want to change my destiny and achieve great things, I have to work many times harder and even sacrifice than ordinary people.
Have you ever felt inferior because of your origins?
The poverty of the family, the limitations of knowledge, the lack of relationships and backgrounds...... All of this may have made us ashamed of ourselves in front of others.
But Lu Yao told us that even if he came from a humble background, he could make the bad cards in his hand through tireless efforts.
In the cold winter of 1949, Lu Yao was born in a dilapidated cave in a farmhouse in northern Shaanxi.
There are a total of ten people in the family, and the parents face the loess every day and work hard, but the family is still too poor to open the pot.
Because he couldn't afford to raise so many children, his father passed him on to his uncle when Lu Yao was 7 years old.
But the uncle's family conditions are not much better, the family is not only often hungry to the point of puffiness, but also almost can't afford to pay for Lu Yao to go to school.
The memory of poverty is deeply rooted in Lu Yao's bone marrow, and he is determined to study hard and change his fate.
When he was a student, Lu Yao studied very hard, and his grades were among the best all year round.
He often goes to the county cultural palace to borrow books, and he is familiar with everything from world classics to newspapers and periodicals.
Thanks to his outstanding performance during his student years, Lu Yao got his favorite editing job after graduation.
Since then, he has worked even harder, and in his first year on the job, he has written more than 50 works.
In 1981, Lu Yao began to write the novel "Life".
He sat at his desk for at least 18 hours a day, and sometimes his arm was red, so he found a stone slab and put it in his arms to continue writing.
A year later, "Life" was published, causing a national sensation and being named the National Award for Outstanding Novella that year.
Lu Yao also became famous in one fell swoop.
A person's origin determines the starting point of TA; But how far a person can go depends on their abilities.
We can't choose where we come from, but we can do our best to build a bright future for ourselves.
If you also want to break the shackles of your background, then perseverance and lifelong learning are the shortcuts to counterattack.
About making money:
Money is a good thing, it makes people stop panicking and gives people self-confidence.
In his childhood, Lu Yao experienced an extremely humiliating thing.
Because he couldn't eat, he was tricked by the rich kids:
"As long as you are on the ground and learn to bark twice, I will give you two white-flour steamed buns."
At that time, Lu Yao had not eaten enough for several days, and he was dizzy from hunger.
In order to be able to eat white-flour steamed buns, he humbly lay on the ground and learned a few dog barks.
When people can't even meet the needs of food and clothing, they have no face to speak of.
The poverty of his childhood was deeply imprinted in Lu Yao's memory, and it also had a profound impact on his later works.
Gao Jialin in "Life", faced with the pressure of life step by step, let go of the high level of the reader, and went to dig dung and plough the land;
Sun Shaoping in "Ordinary World", in order to make money, he also put down his face and went to sell coolies under the crowded bridge.
Make money, let the lives of these protagonists improve step by step, and also let them get rid of inferiority complex and twisting, and have more confidence and risk mediation in life.
In the adult world, the face is small, but the livelihood is big.
In order to withstand the storms of life and protect the well-being of our families, we must shoulder the burden on our shoulders.
Strong face will only make people writ internal friction; If the wallet is bulging, it can cure all hypocrisy.
Work hard and make money, and we will eventually stride forward and earn real dignity for ourselves.
About the Pursuit:
Of course, money is very important, but I think that people should have something else to live in this life.
Do you remember your hobbies or dreams?
In the real society, most people are smoothed out by the mediocrity of life and go with the flow to live their lives.
Only a small number of people always retain love and passion in their hearts, and follow their own wishes to live a wonderful and splendid life.
In "Ordinary World", Sun Shaoping loves to read, and in his free time, he either soaks in the library or lies in his broken futon, reading and fascinating.
After graduating from high school, Sun Shaoping returned to the countryside to work, and his book friend Tian Xiaoxia reminded him:
Don't give up reading! Otherwise, I'm afraid that in a few years, you will have become a different person:
All you talk about is eating; With a blanket on his shoulders, he looked down the street to buy a cheap pig; For a few sticks of firewood or an egg, I beat my neighbors to the point of bleeding......
Xiaoxia's words were taken to heart by Shaoping, and since then, whether he is a teacher in the countryside or a laborer in the county, he has insisted on reading.
Reading filled Shaoping's inner world and gave him strong spiritual strength.
When he first became a coal miner, many of his workers could not stand the harsh working conditions and ran away halfway.
Shaoping not only stayed, but also studied hard every day, and finally was admitted to the coal school and became the most prestigious worker in the mining area.
Reading and not reading are different lives.
In a lifetime, people must always have a higher spiritual quality than firewood, rice, oil and salt.
If you feel lost in the present, you might as well rediscover your former passions and pursuits.
When you have a spiritual fulcrum, no matter what kind of bits and pieces you have to face every day, you can have an inexhaustible source of power.
About impermanence:
Life is so unpredictable. There is no eternal suffering. There is no such thing as eternal happiness. Life is like flowing water, sometimes so flat, sometimes so tortuous.
This sentence comes from Lu Yao's work "Ordinary World".
In the book, the protagonists Sun Shaoan and Sun Shaoping, two brothers, can be said to have experienced vicissitudes of life, and they have been in the torrent of fate all their lives, with ups and downs.
Sun Shaoan worked hard to make his own brick kiln impressive, but because he hired a master who did not understand technology, he lost everything;
Sun Shaoping found a stable job after several tosses, but his lover was separated from him because of an accident.
When I first read this book, I can't help but sigh for the protagonist's ill-fated fate.
After reading it a few more times, I found that the fate of the people in the book is not a portrayal of real life?
In this world, there is no eternal smooth sailing.
Too many partings of life and death, accidents, are staged around us in turn.
Some people have just climbed to the top of the mountain with hard work, and then fall into the abyss in the blink of an eye;
Some people have just worked hard for themselves to live a happy life, but suddenly they have encountered an accident and lost their love forever.
Fate is like a stumbling little man, you never know when it will show its hideous face.
But as the old saying goes, the wind never ends, and the rain never ends.
As long as your heart is strong enough, you will definitely be able to survive the suffering, pass through the confusion, and usher in the next journey.
About Strong:
A youth who has experienced trauma can be stronger to stand up in life if he does not fall because of the trauma.
Many of Lu Yao's protagonists are ill-fated.
But no matter what they encountered, they were not easily defeated by difficulties, but were tempered into steel in the midst of suffering.
After Sun Shao'an failed to start a business, he re-loaned, repaid debts, and finally set up a brick factory, and lived a prosperous life;
Sun Shaoping was disfigured by the mining disaster and lost his love forever, but he resolutely returned to the mining area and took on the responsibility of taking care of the master's widow and children......
The so-called life is nothing but a process of continuous hammering and continuous restoration.
There is no eternal adversity, and all setbacks are stepping stones to the upward.
In this life, we will inevitably encounter all kinds of suffering.
But a truly mature person, even if he is bruised by life, can stand up tenaciously and go to the mountains and seas in the distance.
Man came into the world to conquer life, not to be conquered by it.
When you always maintain your tenacity and unyielding will, you will eventually pass through the darkness and usher in a turn of fate.
About the mindset:
Life can't wait for others to arrange, you have to fight and struggle for yourself; And no matter whether the outcome is happy or sad, you have lived in this world in vain.
If you work hard to create a work, the sales are dismal, and it is criticized by the mainstream academic community as old-fashioned and outdated.
Do you feel so discouraged that you don't even want to continue creating?
When Lu Yao completed the first part of "Ordinary World", he was met with such a cold reception.
But he still insisted on finishing the entire novel.
When creating, Lu Yao burned the sundial every day and wrote that his eyes were sore.
The overload of work made his body seriously overdrawn, and he took hundreds of decoctions, and each time his body recovered slightly, he buried himself in writing and continued to write.
Unfortunately, after the completion of the second part of "Ordinary World", no one cared about it.
Lu Yao was depressed, but he told himself: Even if he dies, he must finish the third part.
For the next 11 months, he locked himself in a small room in a hotel, wrote every day, and even gave up the opportunity to reunite with his relatives during the Chinese New Year.
Finally, in May 1988, he completed the creation of "Ordinary World".
The moment he put down the pen, Lu Yao took a long breath and couldn't help crying:
"It's finally done. It may not be good, but it's done. As long as it can be done, it's good. ”
Surprisingly, after the publication of "Ordinary World", it broke the previous situation that no one cared about in one fell swoop.
It not only won the first place in the selection of the Mao Dun Literature Award, but also caused a reading boom across the country, and it is still selling well.
If Lu Yao had given up easily because of the blow before, he might not have the results he has today.
In life, it is inevitable to experience all kinds of setbacks.
But failure is not terrible, what is terrible is that in internal friction and entanglement, constantly consume mental strength, and never recover.
If you make up your mind to do something, you must stabilize your mentality, and don't easily shake your faith and original intention in the doubts of the outside world.
Because a lot of times, if you hold on a little longer, the road will come to an end.
In 1992, Lu Yao died due to ineffective medical treatment.
On his tombstone, such a proverb is engraved.
"Labor like an ox, give like the land."
In just thirteen words, it is a true portrayal of Lu Yao's life.
For more than 40 years in the world, Lu Yao has worked tirelessly, leaving a rich spiritual treasure for future generations.
Even after 32 years of death, his shining wisdom and tenacious tenacity still ferry many frustrated people.
Born in the world, you and I are mortals, running around all day long, and there is no leisure for a moment.
But Lu Yao told us that even if we encounter a thousand hardships in life, we can still firmly walk on the path we have chosen.
The so-called fulfilling life has never been smooth sailing, but has confronted and resisted all the difficulties, and finally has no regrets.
When you bear the wind, frost, rain and snow of life, and survive all the patience and dormancy, you will eventually move forward all the way and embark on your own bright future.