Shoes below 1000 yuan are not worn, clothes only like a certain brand, a certain brand, the computer only needs a certain brand, the car likes a certain brand, the mobile phone is not used by Apple, bags, cosmetics only pick a few big brands...
It's a materialistic society where money and fame can be smelled everywhere, and most people seem to see only brand names.
Of course, I don't reject brand names. In addition, many people are really impressed by their own quality or design, and like a certain product of a certain brand from the bottom of their hearts. However, how many people just wrap their lives with brand names and flaunt their tastes with brands?
What's more, they have no considerable spending power, but they are kidnapped by life under the packaging of famous brands, and live a life of buying and buying credit cards. How many little girls with a monthly salary of three or five thousand, the desire to be consumed, countless chicken soups, the torrent of marketing are running, and the lipstick that blows up the circle of friends is just the tip of the iceberg.
There is a cauliflower lady who also loves to write. She wrote it with a class bought for 100,000 yuan, which aroused strong resonance among many readers. Two years after graduation, she never deliberately suppressed her desire to consume, prepared enough cosmetics and clothes, did not save wages, and owed nearly 100,000 card debts.
When we set ourselves in a realistic standard, it is easy to lose ourselves, lose our minds, blindly follow the current, and finally become a web of self-restraint, setting ourselves deeper and deeper.
Short and irreproducible life, we all want to live a good life, but there is no certain standard for a good life, just so chic and wonderful, depending on your preferences.
I remember that there is a passage in "Dream of the Red Chamber" that says that Grandma Liu came to daguan garden to eat with Ma Ye, and he asked Wang Xifeng to put some eggplant to feed Grandma Liu. Grandma Liu ate it and didn't believe it was eggplant, and said with a smile: "Although it smells like eggplant, it just doesn't look like eggplant." Tell me how I got it and I'll get it and eat it.
Therefore, Wang Xifeng told Grandma Liu about this practice of eggplant: "The eggplant that just came down is peeled, the meat is just washed, cut into broken nails, fried with chicken fat, and then the chicken breast and mushrooms, new shoots, mushrooms, and dried spiced fruits are all cut into nails, simmered with chicken soup, collect sesame oil, mix bad oil, and put it in."
Making an eggplant does kill people, but the texture and noble spirit of life stand out and don't need gold and jade to decorate.
The quality of life never lies in the ostentation of external local tycoons, nor in the packaging of famous brand LOGOs, but in the care and enjoyment in the details of life.
My friend Mo Ran is a very busy person. She went to work, worked as a purchasing agent, and raised children. She is a living Supergirl around her. However, every time she appeared, she was dressed appropriately, wearing delicate makeup, and the most charming thing was the calm and happiness on her face.
She also has her favorite brands, but you can also find clothes and accessories on her that aren't brand-name, but you'll never see anything cheap or disobedient. Every year, when she is busy at home and at work, she still schedules time to travel. She prefers homestay and youth tours, telling stories and encounters on the road, which often fascinates her friends.
She likes to cut fruit into beautiful shapes and place it in delicate fruit plates for her family. She likes to make food delicious and colorful and make people drool. She lives a life as busy as poetry, but she says she loves fireworks.
U.S. investor Charlie Menger is Buffett's golden partner. His company has its own private jet, but he prefers to be a state-owned airline.
In terms of comfort, convenience and coolness, it's better to choose a private jet, but Charlie Menger gives the answer, "I like to be involved in life, not isolated from life".
Gao also wrote in "Why I Don't Buy a House" that he and his sister were influenced by their mother's words and deeds and did not buy a house. They travel the world and feel very happy. He said: "My mother taught us from a young age not to be trapped by some so-called property."
"Life is poetry and distance, you can go as far as you can; if you don't go far, if you don't have a penny, then read poetry." Poetry means you sit here and it's far away. ”
In my opinion, they all live a very good and happy life, and their happiness does not come from external materials, but from the joy of participating in life, from enjoying the excitement of life, from the richness of the spiritual world.
Who said that thousands of skirts must look more expensive than t-shirts for dozens of dollars, who said that small brand bags that can be easily carried must not catch up with Gu Chi, who said that the Android system must not catch up with Apple's iOS, who said that when you drive a sports car and pass by, you must be happier than I laugh when I ride a bicycle?
Under the brand-name packaging, there is the comfort and enjoyment brought by texture and design, and there is also the emptiness and desolation of the spiritual world that cannot be hidden by gorgeous packaging.
A good life does not have to rely on success and fame, nor does it have to rely on brand-name packaging, but it is highlighted in daily life experiences.
As Charlie Menger says, "I usually do what I want to do." If anyone doesn't like my style, so be it. I don't need everyone to like me. "There is no one who does not expect to live a happy life, and the only thing we want to please is ourselves.
