This article is reproduced from "Table's View of Life"
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When I saw this hot search, I was very surprised.
Former NBA star Delonti West, who was recently met by netizens, found him begging along the street.
He held up a small cardboard that read: I hope the well-wishers will give him some money.
This discovery is truly lamentable.
During his basketball career, the total salary exceeded $16 million. In any case, it will not be reduced to begging along the street.
But in fact, West's downfall preceded it.
Not long ago, he was exposed to working in a furniture store and on social networks begging well-wishers to buy medicine for his children.
He was also photographed by fans, beaten on the street, unclothed, and looked extremely embarrassed.
Originally, on his terms, it was not difficult to be a coach to guide how to play basketball, but the timing was not good, and the outbreak of the epidemic in the United States aggravated the difficulties of his life.
Falling from heaven to quagmire is just a matter of a moment.
It can be seen that people cannot have a smooth life, and it is the normal state of life to have ups and downs.
In 2020, it's really hard.
Popular stars will be reduced to begging on the streets, and ordinary people, in this difficult world, struggle to live.
I can't help but think of another news story these days.
In Foshan, Guangdong Province, a man committed suicide in a factory, a living life, the pillar of a family, and suddenly passed away.
The note left by the man made people sigh:
The work pressure is so great, the body is uncomfortable, it is impossible to cope, insomnia and breathing are difficult. Endocrine disorders, leave to rest, the company to go through the resignation procedures. 2020 is a very special year, how to survive unemployment? I have been working in this company for 6 years, and I seem to be unable to find a job when I go out, and I am separated from society. Tired and unable to sleep, unable to sleep and more unable to work, children are still young, parents are old...
Every word read makes people feel deeply powerless, and through the screen, they can feel his inner confusion and hopelessness.
Where is the way out of life? We don't know how many times such a pessimistic thought has gone through his mind.
Perhaps in his view, life has reached a dilemma:
The work has entered the platform period, and I don't know what I can do after losing my job, so I dare not resign impulsively. The child is still young, the parents are old, the whole family seems to rely on him, and they dare not resign.
Unable to take leave, and afraid to resign, the body is really overwhelmed, has been trapped in this predicament, so that in the end the most decisive way.
In "The Comedy of Mankind", Allen said to the rich second generation of friends:
My story is simple, I just want to earn more money, and then save money to buy a house, go to the next restaurant on the weekend, and buy a clothes for my daughter-in-law. My business is a small thing, and it still crushes people to death.
Sometimes some simple wishes are still unable to overcome the difficulties.
There are good years and famine years in life, and we are used to the days of good years, and we did not expect the days of famine years to be so difficult.
Before seeing a blogger post on Weibo, in the taxi, an executive with an annual salary of more than 300,000 cried bitterly.
His house is 5,000 a month and his car is 7,000 a month. I had planned to do a big job this year to try to pay off the loan.
But after an epidemic, the company announced that it was closed, and he couldn't find a suitable job everywhere, and finally cried in the taxi.
In a good year, we think that when we stand on the cusp of the wind, everything is not a problem, but when life comes to a famine year, everything becomes a problem.
Life is full of too many impermanences and dilemmas, there are too many sighs and loneliness, just like the 80-year-old director Chu Yuan said at the award ceremony of the 37th Hong Kong Film Awards:
Life is probably made up of four words: joy and tears. I once broke the record of the highest-grossing film in Hong Kong, and overnight the boss gave me a 10-fold increase in salary, and after more than a decade, my plays stopped selling money, and I became the most embarrassing director again.
Life is about switching between ups and downs, and we must maintain a good attitude.
In the good year, do not be careless, be prepared to meet the famine year, in the famine year, do not be discouraged, as long as you live there is a chance to turn over.
Many times we felt that we could not climb the mountain at that time, but looking back after many years, it was actually just a grain of dust in the vast life.
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How hard is it to live a barren time?
There is a person in the video "Passing the Zhaoguan" that impressed me.
A young man, because he lied once, his father indiscriminately slapped his brother, and the aggrieved brother drank pesticides and committed suicide.
The guilty father also chose to hang himself.
The sister-in-law left her two children and remarried. A family dies, walks away, and is scattered.
He was also prepared to commit suicide because of extreme guilt, but if he died, what would his brother's two children do?
In order to make up for his mistakes, he chose to live secretly and pulled his two nephews to grow up.
And the punishment he gave himself was to never speak again and make himself a mute.
Both nephews grew up well under his upbringing, and eventually became adults.
Looking back now, the original thought of wanting to die to apologize for sin was better than raising two innocent children to grow up.
When you are deeply in darkness and difficulties, you feel that life is hopeless, and you feel that giving up life is the best way to solve it, but if you stick to it, you will always find that fate has its own arrangement.
Tell you a story, when you can't stick with it, think about it, someone has been doing it for 12 years.
He was the Colombian weightlifter, Oscar Figueroa, an admirable man.
For athletes, gold medals are undoubtedly the best reward for their efforts, but for Figueroa, the road to gold is full of thorns.
After the 2008 Beijing Olympics, he encountered a famine year in his life and faced the lowest point of his sports career.
Before the game, his body was in a condition, but he still insisted on standing on the field, but he failed three attempts, lost his right hand many times, and even lost the qualification for the final.
The coach abandoned him, and domestic public opinion accused him of not wanting to play, no one believed that he was sick, and he was abandoned by almost the whole of Colombia.
Worse still, he was suffering from a disease that could be paralyzed, and even if it took time to cure it, he had passed the golden age of an athlete.
However, he was not defeated by fate, but stood up in pain in the midst of being questioned, degraded and isolated.
At the age of 29, at the London Olympics, Figueroa, who underwent major surgery, stood on the field again, and the endless applause broke out from the venue, and countless people paid tribute to this tenacious athlete in the most direct way.
That year, he won the silver medal and was only one step away from the highest podium.
Four years later, 6 months before the major competition, Figueroa was injured again and had to undergo surgery. After the surgery, he returned to the training ground as fast as he could.
6 months later, rio Olympics, he succeeded! He brought Colombia its first weightlifting gold medal!
On the top podium, he forced his tears to hold back, and in the end, he didn't hold back, he kissed the gold medal affectionately, and then cried.
He was 33 years old, 12 years after his first Olympic appearance.
In 12 years, anything can change, but a heart that wants to gain affirmation has not changed in the slightest.
In 12 years, he experienced injuries, denigration, abandonment, and finally, he used his actions to block the mouths of the yo-yo crowd.
In 12 years, the dilemma of fate made him fall to the bottom, but he climbed up step by step with his own ability.
Standing on the most glorious podium, looking back at the past ten years of athlete career, those who feel that they can't survive the pain, those nights that can't sleep because they are abandoned by public opinion, are all light and breezy.
Finally, his life changed from a "famine year" to a "good year".
Many times, we don't get the script of life, we don't know when there will be a "good year", it's like walking in the night, we don't know when the sky will be light, but the only thing we know is to walk and walk, the sky will be bright.
Everyone has a low point, and the moment is really difficult.
But holding on means everything.
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I also have a bad year in my life.
I remember when I first joined the work, I didn't have any money in my hands, and I rented a cramped house, where it rained heavily outside and light rained inside.
During that time, my mother fell ill and was going to come to my city for surgery.
Every day, after work, I first went to the rental house, made something light and digestible and sent to the hospital, accompanied my mother to eat, and served her to sleep. When I got home, it was late at night, turned on the computer, and arranged for the next day's work.
Once, before my salary was paid, I had to pay the water and electricity rent that I had to pay, and I had more than a dozen dollars left on me.
I used the last of the money to buy ten dollars of meat, cook porridge for my mother to drink, and take the rest of the money by bus.
In between waiting for the porridge to ripen, I listened to the sound of grunting and bubbling, and for a moment, I cried out in a state of collapse.
I don't know why that life was so difficult, and even in that moment, I had the idea of giving up on myself.
But in the end, I still packed up my mood and went to the hospital, after all, there was still my mother who needed my care.
Time has passed, and I can finally easily say that sad time.
From the "famine year" to the "good year", I can even say that it was those difficult days that made me today.
I am not thankful for the grind of fate, I am only grateful for not giving up on myself.
This year, I've heard more than once that 2020 is a difficult year.
In this year, many young people who have just stepped out of society feel the cruelty of reality. Middle-aged people who have worked for many years are exhausted by the shrinking wages and the huge pull of economic pressure.
These dilemmas are infinitely magnified, and they have become obstacles that many people cannot pass in their hearts.
There is no shame in mourning, and it is common for people to be afraid and worried in the face of difficulties.
But there is another word, "fear without fear", that is, you will be afraid and worried, but you will not be afraid to give up and surrender.
This is actually a kind of bravery, knowing that you will be afraid, but you are still brave in fear, which is actually a kind of courage to face the bleak life and dare to face the blood.
I love a cartoon like this.
You think your life is like this:
But in fact, your life is like this:
Yes, failure and frustration, fear and dread, can spread throughout your life, and that's the truth of life.
So, are you resentful of yourself in the dilemma of failure and setback at that time, or do you accept that failures and setbacks have become a part of your life and set your sights on your goals in the midst of failures and setbacks?
There is a saying that those who cannot kill us will eventually make us stronger.
In many cases, it is not that life has done us anything, but that before it has done anything to you, you have already surrendered your weapons.
Sweat, tears, and even pain are all proof that we are alive, and only by persevering can we experience the richness of the harvest.
The "famine year" of life is not terrible, the terrible thing is that you can only live a "good year" and cannot survive in the "famine year".