Live seriously and diligently – the light we find in The Lost World

In the bubble economy of Japan in the late 1980s and early 1990s, high-rise buildings sprung up, high-end Western restaurants in the city, redemptions for favorite geisha, rich men who swiped credit cards for beautiful women without blinking their eyes, celebrities who were busy buying art, luxury cars, and the rise of various new occupations... There is an air of abundance of money everywhere. Most people think that the glory of their lives and the glory of the country overlap, and firmly believe that this prosperity will continue into the future. But this kind of prosperity is like a meteor crossing a beautiful light in the night sky and then falling into a corner of the universe. Some of the darlings of the times who reached the pinnacle of life almost overnight lost their homes and had nothing. Ten years later, people who were still young at that time are now middle-aged, what kind of life do they live?

The novel "The Lost World" is the work of the famous Japanese female writer Mariko Hayashi. The novel takes the heroine, Mizue Sawano, based on her own real experience, to create a TV series "My Memories" that recreates life in Japan's bubble economy era, and takes the screenwriter as an opportunity to meet two important men in her life, Muneya Takabayashi and Satoshi Kuse. Both men pursue her passionately, and Ruizhi lingers in the feelings of the two men, and then meets her ex-husband and learns that her ex-husband has formed a new family, and finally chooses to go to a new life with Satoshi Kuse.

Yu Hua said: "Man lives for the sake of being alive itself, not for anything other than being alive." "I would say that in this unpredictable age and world, every tiny individual survives as a result of serious effort.

The heroine, Mizue Sawano, was a journalist when she was young, and because of an interview, she met the tycoon Gunji of the real estate industry at that time, and became his wife, giving birth to her daughter Hihanari. Gunji took her through the vicissitudes of the bustling world, but eventually abandoned her. She took her children, lived in an apartment, and relied on screenwriters to make ends meet while learning to write scripts. When she received the screenwriting job, she would spend several days in a row, nestled at home to create, "most of the night is often called away", when her daughter was young, she was accompanied by a nanny, and when she grew up, she "could only be at home alone". She often ordered takeout for herself and her daughter, and in order to make her understand that she neglected to take care of her at work, she repeatedly told her daughter that they were a "single-parent family" and that the two were a "community of destiny". Luckily, some of her works had good ratings, allowing her to enter the ranks of professional screenwriters, but sometimes she was asked to have unspoken rules, and even then she would face the need to worry about making a living without a job offer from a TV station. These days lasted six years, and she became a tepid screenwriter.

When she divorced her ex-husband, she had already said goodbye to all the prosperity, so the next thing to consider was to live, let her daughter survive, and let herself survive. Sometimes, life hit her all over the body, but living seriously and hard is the medicine for healing. Because being alive is not only a living life, but also a kind of courage to face life head-on, and then continue to conform to life and live. "The flowers collapsed, and the stems were held up in blood." When the Internet celebrity poet Yu Xiuhua wrote this sentence, how many people noticed her shaky struggle in the human world? How many people have heard her cry as she struggles to get up? Since you choose to survive, even if there is despair in the air, you must continue to do what you can do and live a life that must be lived. After experiencing the bubble economy era, her ex-husband could not even pay the child's maintenance, but she survived with her daughter as a single mother, which further confirmed that the more she worked hard to live in life, the more lucky she could get.

Live seriously and diligently, refuse to have everything you hated before appear in front of you in the guise of the future — reject your lover, choose your lover, and live for yourself again.

TV Tokyo producer Ren Xiang approached her to create a work that reflects the bubble economy era, "My Memories", in which the heroine is based on herself. Thinking that she was selling her privacy for money, she wanted to refuse, but she was forced to take over the creation for a living, so two important men in her life entered her life one after another.

The 43-year-old Takabayashi is also the architect of her ex-husband, Gunji, who was a well-known up-and-coming designer at the time, and now his works are award-winning. He has money, status, and a career, and he pursues her, telling her that "we are still young" and that it is not yet time to recall the past, so now it is time to start enjoying life and love passionately. Then even if everything is lost in the future, "but there are still memories." She was obsessed with his gentleness and carefulness, and felt that she liked the man she was admiring, but she knew that the relationship between the two could only be based on an affair, because he had a family.

She once had a lover and a husband with a wife, and when she was still worried about not having a job with her children, her lover took her family on vacation on the island. Knowing then that her lover only found her in search of the perfect life without considering her where she belonged, she did not hesitate to interrupt the relationship. Even the most gorgeous coat can not hide the real body, the golden, famous, gentle and learned Gao Lin is after all the father of someone else's child, the husband of another woman. I used to say to myself, "When I grow up in the sunflower, I'm going to live for myself once." "There is no future between her and Gao Lin now. It wasn't what she wanted!

A few years ago, I read Keigo Higashino's "Secret": "I was thinking about myself, but I didn't think about choosing a happy path for the people I loved." In the book, Gao Linzong is also such a person, he does his favorite job, finds his own position in society, has a home that looks happy, and gets a Ruizhi who he admires and likes as a lover, and in the future he can look back on his beautiful past, but Ruizhi's future is left with the difference between pain and sadness. Perhaps such a foreseeable future would be as cruel as death?

Satoshi Kuse is an actor in the TV series who is 9 years younger than Mizue. In order to pursue Mizue, he tries every means to get close to her daughter Nichihanari, and he tells Mizue, "I'm going to marry you, and sooner or later we'll have to have our own children." He convinces Ruizhi that both are young, so there are endless possibilities for the future. But Mizue didn't have the confidence that he could entrust his future to Satoshi Kuse with the condition that he still had a child at the age of 38.

She met her ex-husband and learned that he had re-started the family and had children and started a new life.

Gunji's life is even more ups and downs, from the darling of that era to the present has nothing, that period of glory is more like an illusion, and it is painful to remember them. But the 46-year-old said that "people are still very stupid, and as time goes by, one day they will forget those painful things and move in the direction of happiness." "We're still young, and no one has taught us how to face failure." Maybe at this time, he is no longer the county division that "gives up women is to give up being a person", he and another woman to establish a new family is also because he wants to start a new life, "the opportunity will definitely come again, after the failure and setbacks you are no longer 10 years ago you, wait for the next wave to come, you will be able to successfully control." ”

Ruizhi didn't need to hesitate. The hardest days of six years when she took her daughter alone to make a living have passed, because the success of "My Memories" has also been reborn in her screenwriting career, and now her life needs a lover who accompanies her to the future, so that her daughter No longer says that she is a child of a "single-parent family". And such a man is by her side, Satoshi Kuse said: "I think about how good it would be if we could live together with three people, and after marriage, we will have our own children immediately." She told her ex-husband, Junji, "I didn't have a relationship with Korin because I'm getting married soon." "She has decided to live again, from now on, without waiting for the sun to grow up.

Live again, let everything start all over again, everything start now - when this happens, live seriously and diligently, we will not be afraid.

Twenty years ago, I listened to Liu Huan's "Starting Again" for the first time, and I heard the inspiration and heroism, but more of it was helplessness and tragedy, so how easy it was to make everything "start from scratch"! Twenty years later, when I wrote this, I was also trying to "start all over again." Only after experiencing it ourselves do we know that this is not a helpless choice, but as an ordinary person, when we face life seriously, face the "loved ones" and those expectant eyes, we can't stop working hard, "no matter how hard it is, we must be strong."

"Live again, start all over again" is to say goodbye to the past. Once honored, once humble, once prosperous, once depressed, once timid, once waiting, once lived and lived... What we strive to forget is not only the world of form and color, but also the weak and weak mind that has been binding our flesh.

"Live again, start all over again" is the beginning of our choice of a new life. Every choice is a "start over" and we don't know what we're going to go through on the road, but only when we get on the road do we know that we're really living. Whether we cry or laugh, those who describe the tacky joys and sorrows of the world are all testimonies of our hard work and serious life.

"Live again, start all over again" is our hope for the future. When he was a child, Mizue did not think that he would one day marry the darling of the real estate industry, did not think that the 38-year-old with the child would choose to start a new life with his 9-year-old Hisase Satoshi, twenty years ago I did not think that today would "start all over again", twenty years ago Guo Degang would not have thought that today's Deyun Society was in full swing, Ma Yunjian Ali would not have thought that it had such a great impact on Chinese... It is precisely because of the uncertainty of the future that we are full of expectations for it. Even if the strings of hope are broken, we can still play a silent song.

Live again, start again, and start today. I told myself "I'm only forty" instead of "I'm already forty."

Middle-aged people who have experienced that glorious era have come out of that painful memory and started their own new life, as if it were a lost world, and everyone only occasionally remembers it.

No one knows what the future holds, but everyone has to live, seriously and diligently, because life always has to start, go on, and then the future can be expected.