After graduating from college, he followed his parents' advice and did not choose to stay in a distant place, but returned to his hometown.
This is a fifth-tier city with a very slow pace of life, entering the system to work, and going to a place every day is one point less than the "three points and one line" when going to school: only the two straight-line distances between the unit and the home.
The daily action is nothing more than getting up, doing a commuter car, turning on the computer, filling out forms, turning off the computer, going home, eating, and sleeping.
It's a schedule where you can see the rest of your life in one day.
Four years, day after day, like a pool of stagnant water, without waves.
Sometimes I really want to break this situation, but I don't know where to start.
Until I met the book "Lisbon Night Train", in the process of reading, I slowly found some strength to change.
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The author, Pascal Messier, born in 1944 in Bern, Switzerland, is a professor of philosophy at the Free University of Berlin, in addition to the academic field, Messier is more widely known as a novelist, the first two novels "Perlman's Silence" and "The Piano Tuner", which attracted the attention of the literary world.
The Book of Lisbon Night Train, which also topped the German best-seller list for 140 weeks, was translated into fifteen languages and published, sold more than 2.5 million copies worldwide, and was awarded the Best Foreign Language Novel at the Grienne Cavo Literary Award in 2007.
The French newspaper Le Monde once described it as "a serious and beautiful book about a lonely and scrutinized life." ”
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The novel tells such a story, and the protagonist of the story is named Raimond Golegris.
He is a language teacher in a middle school, 57 years old, has been teaching in this school for more than thirty years, and his work is also remarkable, he knows Greek, Latin and Hebrew, and is what everyone calls "omniscient" Mr.
One rainy day, on the Cochinfield Bridge leading to the school, he met a woman.
In the torrential rain, this woman, she was reading a letter, as if she were going to take her own life, he saved her, and had a brief time with her.
And she speaks a language she doesn't know— Portuguese.
From then on, he had this woman in mind.
This encounter with this woman also made Golegris suddenly wake up, and he began to hate his existing life.
But the real change comes from a book.
That afternoon, Golegris came to a bookstore and saw a book that suited him perfectly, The Alchemist of Words, and when he opened the first page, he became deeply immersed in the language of the author.
The book made him decide to abandon the pulpit and familiar life he had been in for more than thirty years and look for another life.
In the book, the author says:
"We are always unable to see our own lives, we can't see the front, we don't understand the past, and we live a good life, all by chance."
In one numb, fluke 365 days after another, we went from the youth of 20 to the age of 30.
40, 50 years old, or such a muddy fluke to live?
Golegri is an emotional failure, he does not know how to get along with his wife, he does not know what companionship is;
In life, he is a failure, an escapist, and unwilling to face the facts.
Fortunately, in the time before it was too late, he bravely pursued the "hope" he wanted to pursue.
03
After waking up, Golegri then fell into an endless state of wandering and began to find himself in other people's stories.
He embarked on the night train to Lisbon, took a book, followed other people's lives, and learned Spanish and Portuguese.
Explore loneliness, friendship, love, freedom, and the finiteness of life.
And all this coincides with my own state at this time.
I am also using the power of this book to try my best to change the rest of my life.
Work actively for eight hours, and try to broaden your hobbies for 4 hours after work.
Strive to make your own life without shock, under your own step-by-step efforts, more lucky to struggle, rather than lucky luck.
In life, we tend to be smoothed out by the bland life and become sophisticated.
But I hope that through this book, we will no longer compromise with the world, but bravely pursue what we want, and have the courage to face the storms of life.
Just like the protagonist in the book, no matter when and how old you are, at this time, you start to dream and pursue your own life in hope, which should be the excitement of our present.