From tomorrow onwards, be a happy person. Haizi wrote this in the first sentence of "Facing the Sea in Spring and Warm Flowers". So what is happiness? He said, Strangers, I also bless you, may you have a bright future, may you have a lover and eventually become a family.
Happiness in the worldly sense, as we understand it, is nothing more than having food in our bags and love around us. In short, material and emotional security. The little light we are going to talk about today tells us another form of happiness.
"The Chronicle of the Boat" tells the story of a group of people with Xiao Guang as the male protagonist who wrote a dictionary called "Dadu Hai".
Xiao Guang is a master's student in linguistics and has an almost paranoid love of language. After graduation, he entered a publishing house and rented a house called Bamboo Po. Usually, in addition to going to work, I buy books and come back to read them, and the whole bedroom is full of books. This life lasts for 10 years. The small light that is born wooden and is not good at words is enough to run the business.
By chance, the old director of the dictionary editorial department wanted to edit a new dictionary, not only to include the basic vocabulary of the past, but also to include the most error-prone and up-to-date vocabulary. In the words of the old minister, "We must compile a dictionary for those who live in the present." ”
The Minister hoped that "Dadu Hai" would be a dictionary that would keep pace with the times
However, the right-hand man of the editorial office brought Araki to retirement age and chose to go home with his wife. All that's left are nishioka, who is impetuous, and Sasaki, a temporary worker. For a time, the old minister was faced with the situation of "no general in Shu".
After much searching, Hikari's unique nerd (nerd) temperament attracted the attention of Araki and Nishioka, so he pulled him to the dictionary editorial department.
Xiao Guang's nerdy atmosphere attracted the attention of the dictionary editorial department
In an era when computers and search technology were not developed, the work of collecting and compiling vocabulary was almost entirely manual. So we see the vocabulary collection card that runs through the film.
Vocabulary collection cards throughout the film
In the face of the vast ocean of vocabulary, it is conceivable that it is a huge workload to rely entirely on manual collection, collation, interpretation, and school journals of vocabulary.
So Nishioka asked Araki, how long will it take to compile a dictionary? Araki said it took other publishers 28 years to compile the same medium-sized dictionary. Nishioka was shocked and said, "If you die, you won't see this dictionary come out." Araki replied, maybe you will see it come out when you die.
It takes decades to compile a dictionary, and whether or not you can live to see it come out is a question
Who knew that Xiao Guang listened to this conversation, not only did not struggle with whether he could live to see this dictionary come out. On the contrary, it came hard, and reflexively buried his head and worked hard.
When she returned home in the evening, Zhu Po invited Xiao Guang to dinner together, and looked at Xiao Guang's spiritless appearance, thinking that he had something to worry about.
Xiao Guang told Zhu Po that compiling a dictionary was really an extremely difficult task, and he could not accomplish it alone. But he seemed to have found a career of his life.
Zhu Po said: "I found a lifelong career at a young age, and this alone, Xiao Guang is very happy, and then it is good to move forward with all your strength." ”
Bamboo Po said that this alone, Xiao Guang is happy
Bamboo Po is worthy of living most of his life, just a few words, it inspired us about another form of happiness--- found a career worth fighting for a lifetime, that kind of inner solid and firm feeling, really think about it makes people feel that there is hope for life.
This kind of hope is not waiting for the fruit of the hope, but thinking that there is an orchard that is worth spending my life cultivating, constantly beautifying it, and enriching it. The road is under my feet, the direction has been pointed, I just have to go and walk.
Park Shu has a song called "Ordinary Road", which is probably the best portrayal before and after Xiao Guang compiled the dictionary. Before compiling the dictionary, Xiao Guang was a lame salesman, went to the bookstore to sell books, would only stand in front of the bookstore owner with the book stupidly stunned, and after being rejected by the boss, he still held the book stupidly there, and would not have any sales words, and came back to honestly report the bad results to the leader. Year after year, day after day, mechanically repeating sales jobs that should have been very flexible.
The little light that would only be there like a chopstick pestle was selling books to bookstore owners
At that time, he was awkward and clumsy. Despite the poor business, Xiaoguang continued to do the job quietly, probably really liked books too much, so he was reluctant to leave the publishing house. He did not know where the road ahead was, and books were his hobby and a safe haven from the pressures of the world. As the first half of "Ordinary Road" sings "Boiling, restless, where are you going, enigmatically silent..."
Before leaving, Araki, the predecessor of the Dictionary Editorial Department, gave Xiaoguang a pair of sleeves that he would use for work (at that time, book editing work, a lot of pencil writing, so he would use sleeves to prevent the sleeves from being soiled), and encouraged Xiaoguang to "edit a dictionary of his own".
Araki, a senior, encouraged Hikari to edit a dictionary of his own
After hearing this sentence, the small light trembled all over his body. For the first time, in this mune man, a state of "hot blood" appeared. He thought of an ocean of words, and he sank into it, trying to grasp every word. As a result, the second half of "Ordinary Road" becomes a portrayal of XiaoGuang's finding a career worth fighting for a lifetime--- In the dark, this is the only road I have to take, time is speechless, so and so, tomorrow is in front of me."
Xiao Guang found his own ocean of vocabulary
Haruki Murakami once said that the so-called life is such a thing, just like the seeds of plants are blown away by unexpected winds, and we are all wandering on the accidental earth. It is said that the encounters of life are elusive, and the normality of life is erratic. As a result, the confusion and anxiety brought about by these uncertainties are always with us. Effort, struggle, hesitation, wandering, everything is to find the only way to go in the darkness.
So, as Zhu Po said, Xiao Guang found a career for a lifetime at a young age, of course, it is the best luck in life.
From then on, he could read hard and edit the meaning of each word; listen to people talk and collect the latest vocabulary of the moment; lead a group of colleagues and college students to revise the entire dictionary again and again, a group of people who forgot to sleep and forget to eat, and make the publishing house home; with the same strict spirit as a craftsman, he demanded that the printing plant must give the most perfect paper and printing effect.
All this is probably a small light that has sunk into the ocean of words, trying to grasp the actual action of each word. Determined and fulfilling, hard and happy.
It took 15 years before and after "Dadu Hai" to edit. At the dictionary press conference, Araki sighed, 15 years, really long. Xiao Guang said, yes, I still think it is too short. When he finished, he pulled out a stack of his latest collection of vocabulary cards from his pocket.
In the 15 years of compiling the dictionary, Xiao Guang not only did not feel long, but was very short
Haizi said, Stranger, I also bless you, may you have happiness in this world.
Here, I would like to say, stranger, I also bless you, may you find your ordinary path as soon as possible.