"The collective lying of adults is the greatest sorrow of the world"
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Last year, a video of a Hangzhou primary school student's speech went viral on the Internet! The theme of the speech was "I have a dream", compared to playing football, being a doctor, and being a teacher, a young student said bluntly that "his dream is to get rich" and make it for himself.
A little boy just told a truth that adults did not dare to tell, which caused a panic in the adult world, making their hearts sour and astringent, stuffy and worried.
The little boy in The Emperor's New Clothes
Many people say that this is not the dream of a schoolboy. This dream is so mundane and superficial.
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In fact, the real sadness of this era is not that children understand the meaning of money early, but that we, as adults, actually avoid the truth brought by money!
Every day, every industry, everyone is weaving lies. We know that we are lying, we know that the other party is lying, we all know that each other is lying, and we all know that we are lying together, and in this way, a delicate world order has been formed.
As adults, we have long regarded lying as a common thing, and not lying has become abnormal, which is the biggest sadness of the world so far.
Remember that little boy in The Emperor's New Clothes?
In the face of the emperor who was wandering naked in front of everyone's eyes, all the people gave a thumbs up, praised his beautiful clothes, and were all obedient and commenting on the head of the Tao.
Suddenly, a naïve little girl stood up and bravely said: He is wearing nothing!
Suddenly, the whole world is extremely embarrassed!
The little boy who spoke was the embodiment of that little boy. He became popular only because he said a truthful word that tore off the mask of social hypocrisy.
What dreams do you have?
In "Please Answer 1988", I saw a story like this:
Deshan's father asked her, "What is my family's dream of Deshan, and what kind of person do you most want to be?" ”
Deshan said sheepishly, "I don't have a dream. ”
What is your dream? This question we have been constantly questioned from childhood to adulthood, parents asked, teachers asked, even after graduation, the interviewer will make up a knife: "What is your dream?" ”
Well, let me answer again:
When I was a child, my dream was to be a scientist, a teacher, a doctor, and a footballer.
In high school, my dream was to be admitted to the incomparably decent school of 985/211;
College, my dream is to go to graduate school, start a business, and have a good job;
At work, my dream is to have a home where my parents are in good health and can struggle outside without worry.
But now the reality is: every day with a tired face to squeeze the subway bus is stepped on, often criticized by the leader, the salary is not improved, parents will say that today's cold weather, his old cold legs began to hurt again.
Finally, I found that the dream, the thing that used to be fantasized day and night, was defeated by simple chai rice oil and salt, and it was helplessly stuffed into the most secret corner of the heart.
Without dreams, we become greasy, bald, collapsed...
Without dreams, we become silent, melancholy, anxious...
Without dreams, we have become so depressed, so embarrassed, so bad...
So many adults will be the most truthful words of the schoolchild, poking at the sore spot and then pretending not to care, because that is a naked mockery of society, that is a challenge to the traditional way of life, that is a true expression of their own dreams.
Linking wealth to dreams is not the fault of this schoolboy.
My dream is to get rich!
We work so hard that we don't want our parents, wives, and children to be powerless when they need us.
Those who desperately make money for their lives should never be sneered at, because every penny of money may carry the weight of life.
Haruki Murakami once said that his ideal woman has never appeared, but he can still get married and still live a life, which is a compromise between ideals and reality, linking dreams with money, which is also the truth, and it is not shameful to put it in the adult world.
Back to the beginning of the article, we can certainly laugh at the children's "dream of getting rich". But as adults, there are old and young adults, how many people can laugh when they need to use money?
In this day and age, everything is a value exchange. Only money can give a person a sense of security, can make a person solid.
Only with money, parents will not silently put down their favorite clothes because of the price, will not heat the leftovers at home over and over again, and will not dare to call you because they are sick...
Getting married and having children is the norm of life, chai rice oil salt sauce vinegar tea is life, and qinqi calligraphy and painting poetry hops can only live in dreams.
There is no doubt that the most realistic ideal of a person is to get rich. And I insist that this is not our shame, it is all due to the times.
Finally, to borrow the phrase from Kitajima's "Polish Visitor": "At that time we had dreams, about literature, about love, about traveling through the world." Now we drink late at night, and when the cups touch together, it's the sound of broken dreams. ”