Source: "500 Yuan Happiness" & Network
Author 丨 Sanshui
01
What can I do with 500 pieces?
What can I do with 500 blocks?
"What can 500 do, can it?"
"A little less."
"Eat and drink."
How can 500 dollars be spent to make yourself as happy and happy as possible?
"Then I'll have to think about it."
"The main money is too small."
"Can you spend any money?"
Can money buy happiness?
"I'll give it a try."
……
This is a documentary about "500 yuan to buy happiness" made by the program team.
Faced with the question of whether money can buy happiness, people are not in a hurry to deny the link between money and happiness.
But I always feel that 500 yuan seems to be a little less.
Only one elementary school student said, "500 is ok." ”
After all, compared with the recent star Net Red sky-high revenue that has frequently rushed to the hot search, 500 yuan is a few pieces of silver.
What can this piece of silver do?
Maybe they can give us the answer.
Faced with the 500 yuan falling from the sky, the three protagonists made different choices.
Perhaps, the secret of 500 pieces of happiness is that it gives us a right opportunity.
02
Two tickets for a female Muay Thai boxer
The des Alizes
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After 95, the girl bit down and exchanged 500 yuan for an explanation.
If not, it is difficult to tell from her appearance that she is a girl.
Biting Pan combs a dirty braid, wears men's shorts, and his skin is a healthy wheat color, with the energy and naughtiness of a boy.
She is now a member of a women's sports platform and loves a variety of extreme sports.
Bungee jumping, racing, boxing are her favorites.
What's even more amazing is that she has also won awards in men's racing competitions.
Once, she was a professional Muay Thai boxer.
It is not difficult to find that this is a girl with a distinct personality and brave dreams,
Today, she is in Beijing pursuing her favorite business.
And the strength to maintain her deviantness came from an old lady.
When receiving the 500 pieces given by the program team, Biting Pan laughed and said:
"Don't you know that WeChat transfers are popular now?"
After a burst of laughter, Bitan immediately decided to use the 500 yuan to buy two tickets to and from Beijing for a little old lady.
This old lady is her grandmother, and her grandmother is called "dog baby".
A bit of a boyish bite, from childhood did not do less to make her parents headaches, every time to maintain her is the grandmother.
About Beijing, about extreme sports, although Grandma does not know what is going on,
But when others thought that they were not doing their jobs, Grandma finally believed in her little granddaughter.
We always think that success can repay those who love us, and we are worried about missing opportunities in waiting.
The same goes for bites.
This 500 yuan undoubtedly gave Bite Pan a reasonable reason to pick up Grandma to Beijing to see.
In the days of Beijing, Biting Pan slept with his grandmother in a quilt and nestled around his grandmother like a child.
Take Grandma to see herself riding a motorcycle, and take Grandma to play Muay Thai with you.
At the end, Grandma said, "I can see it, and I won't have a chance later." ”
Yes, this is the first time that a grandmother in her 80s has come to Beijing, and it may be the last.
Her biggest concern is not how much her little granddaughter has achieved, but how happy she can be seen in her lifetime.
In the past few days with my grandmother in Beijing, I have blushed and looked forward to countless times.
500 yuan can not buy glory and wealth, but buy grandma a peace of mind.
It is not only to help Bite Pan complete a wish, but also to affirm grandma's original support.
Isn't that happiness, tiny but heart-warming.
For Bite Pan, this 500 yuan is better than success, and it is a reason to return the favor to Grandma.
03
A small concert by a wandering singer
Dreaming of a pure child's heart
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And for the wandering singer Tingge, 500 yuan is enough to buy a dream come true.
After graduating from the Conservatory of Music, Tingge worked as an overnight show and a resident singer.
But he always had a musical dream in his heart that he couldn't put down.
So at the age of 44, he left the northeast with a guitar on his back and went to Beijing.
Beijing is the city of dreams, but also the city of dreams.
Be a wandering singer, sell and sing in the underground passage with all your heart, and when it is good, it will be more than a hundred days.
Riding a broken bicycle and running down the street, Tingge did not know when he would be able to realize his dream.
He is the protagonist of the car lock that was stolen and the car is still there.
When the 500 pieces were handed to Brother Ting, he grinned and said:
"I just want to have a concert."
The process of finding a venue bumped and bumped, and finally met a warm northeast fellow, and gave him the vacant land of the store for free.
The film crew helped take a photo, and TingGe took a poster that cost 180 yuan to print on the street.
I borrowed an old-fashioned stereo from a friend, borrowed a round wooden platform from the program group, and bought a two-meter red carpet.
The stage was almost set.
At nightfall, Tingge sang with love on this stage built for 500 yuan.
On several rows of benches sat a sparse audience, and as the song fluttered, more people increased.
A humorous big brother came on stage to sing a song with Brother Ting, and a small fan came to the scene with flowers.
This small concert, simple but not shabby, cheap but not cheap.
No one can afford this little money, but the sudden appearance of a "buy happiness with 500 yuan" activity has given TingGe the courage to realize his dream.
There was a group of people who backed him up and gave him a little more confidence.
For Tingge, the applause of the audience is his happiness.
Even if it is a person's stage, this 500 pieces is worth it.
Everyone who works hard for their dreams needs such a "500-piece opportunity".
It makes us braver and more open in our persistence.
04
North Drift director's meal and roses
Xi Zhiwei, the director of North Drift, exchanged 500 yuan for two returns.
As my aunt said, "Eat well, drink well, have fun, and get it." ”
After getting 500 yuan, Xi Zhiwei thought that he never seemed to have repaid his parents and lovers.
"Then give my parents a birthday and buy my wife a big bouquet of roses."
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To make people who have been silently supporting themselves happy, that is Xi Zhiwei's happiness.
Xi Zhiwei works in Beijing and is a typical North Drifter.
When he was young, in order to dream of movies, his parents spent a high training fee to send him to study.
When I grew up, I realized that reality is cruel.
A rural child, no background and no connections,
I can only carry that little talent myself, with the support of my family and loved ones, and struggle.
The first time he arrived at the train station in the capital, he lamented that he was like "Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden."
Every time he returned to the village, when asked what movie he had recently made, he could only smile awkwardly.
Xi Zhiwei bought a hard seat for 5 and a half hours to return to his hometown, because he wanted to save more money.
When they got home, the parents used their busyness to hide the joy of their children suddenly coming home.
In the evening at the small restaurant, he bought a birthday cake for his parents and helped them celebrate their birthdays for the first time.
Like most hard-working and simple parents in China, they rarely mention their needs.
Xi Zhiwei sobbed, and it took half a day to say a sentence:
"Thank you for giving birth to me and raising me."
Like every adult who is not good at expressing love, he speaks in the simplest but most sincere words.
"As long as you have a good life, we will be satisfied with a little filial piety."
The father raised his glass and drank it all.
There are many reasons to forget about birthdays, but in the final analysis, it is our habit of ignoring the people closest to us.
Back in his rental house in Beijing, he greeted his wife with a large bouquet of roses.
In front of the film crew, the wife behaved generously, but Xi Zhiwei knew that she would secretly feel sorry for the money later.
Xi Zhiwei said that his wife is a very pragmatic person, and the ideal is to have a better life, but silently accompanies him to suffer a lot.
"It's not easy to pursue his dreams, I hope he can stick to it, it's enough to have me at home."
"I used to hate the fishy smell, but now I'm all directly used to it, and I'm used to hahaha."
"The last time we drank coffee was a long time ago, it was a plain life, steadfast."
After dinner, the two went hand in hand to the wet market to buy ingredients for the next day.
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This ordinary life is Xi Zhiwei's happiness.
500 yuan is not a lot, but it reminds him that gratitude and love should be expressed in time.
05
More important than money
It was an opportunity
500 yuan, it turns out that you can really buy a carnival of life.
From the beginning of the suspicion that 500 is too little, to the later several protagonists successfully achieved "500 yuan of happiness".
This is an amount that is usually extremely easy to ignore, but it can help us to do what we have always wanted to do but have not done.
What we need to think about is what and who we spend on to make our happiness reach the maximum of the moment.
The consumption process of 500 yuan in the film is full of life's ups and downs and sighs.
The anxiety and anticipation of biting and looking forward to it, the warm memories of the pulse given by Grandma, the excitement and comfort when she gets Grandma's affirmation;
Brother Ting went from hitting a wall everywhere when renting a venue, to getting help from strangers and roses of fans who came from afar to listen to concerts;
Xi Zhiwei awkwardly expressed his gratitude to his parents at the dinner table, holding a large bouquet of roses to his smiling wife.
In order to live, sometimes we have to fight for more material things.
Sometimes I feel that the more money the better, the bigger the house, the better, and the career to go to a higher level.
But there is no end to the pursuit of profits, and the happiness in front of you can be firmly grasped, and if you miss it, you can never recover it.
I can't help but think of one thing around me:
I have a friend who was brought up by my grandfather.
When I went to elementary school, it was winter, and it was not yet light.
Grandpa got up to prepare breakfast for him and send him to school.
From home to school, Grandpa had to pedal for 30 minutes on three wheels, two trips a day.
When he grew up, he went to Shanghai to work hard.
Promise to wait for yourself to come out, and then take grandpa to live together,
Grandpa said that he had a grandson who was born and filial piety.
But just last month, Grandpa died suddenly.
Sometimes I want to wait, but when I miss it, I never get another chance.
What we lack is not the hundreds of dollars that fall from the sky.
Rather, it is the opportunity it brings, so that we can enjoy the simplest happiness within our ability for a short time.
06
Say "buy" happiness
It's better to say that you feel happiness
If you think about it, it is not to buy happiness with money, but to feel happiness.
When you can feel happiness with your heart, it means that you know the preciousness of happiness.
Even without these 500 pieces, we know that we have to create our own opportunities to become happy.
Those beautiful things that are within reach are actually hidden in our lives.
Wait for me to come home
Zhou Xiaoxiao - Class 4
In the end, it is the fireworks in the world, which is the most soothing to the hearts of mortals.
The "sentient beings" presented by the master in the film are each of us ordinary people with ordinary lives.
Bearing higher and higher mortgages, enduring the fingering of others, still clinging to dreams,
Haggling for a few cents of food money, keen on gathering with family and friends at each festival...
It is such ordinary people who make up the majority of society.
Ordinary life gives us a different kind of happiness.
The protagonist of another short story in the film, Hu Yanglin, the original singer of "Perfume Poison", said a paragraph:
Money, we spend it any way we walk down the street today,
But when you give it a range, how you spend it will make you feel happy,
You will take a fresh look at the meaning of money from a different perspective.
Materialism, ideals, affection, lovers...
When the complex elements of life collide together,
How, exactly, can we find our happiness?
In fact, the film has already left us with the answer:
When we learn to take the initiative to create opportunities,
Do the things that you want to do in your heart but have never done,
Courageously express love for important people and things,
You can achieve the most ordinary and simple, the most accessible happiness.