In the middle of the night last night, I don't know if your circle of friends was brushed by the "EDG Championship".
I was also watching the world finals, and I was so excited at the end of the moment that I stood up and slapped my thigh.
These 5 boys born around 2000, who were not optimistic, actually created a miracle. Particularly infectious.
But what I want to talk about today besides them is more about you.
After 00 won the championship. Brave people are not only them, but also you.
The people who continue to chase dreams are not only us, but also the young people of more times.
Do you remember what it was like for young people to chase their dreams?
If you and I have the same hobby: brush retro short videos, then the following few very energetic screenshots, there is always one that can take you back to the past era.
Jeans from the 80s, three or seven points, disco sixteen steps.
Screenshot from @Song Qingshu
90s flower skirt, big waves, iconic "a cloud" hairstyle.
Screenshot from @Hutiti-
There were also the most popular Internet cafes and ice rinks in 2000, where the little young one raced more than one.
Screenshot from @Memories Classic Nostalgia Effects
I don't know how you feel after watching it, but anyway, I think their taste is really strange and familiar.
What is strange is the scene around them, but what is familiar is their temperament:
Everyone was full of energy, their smiles were bright, and no matter how big their dreams were, they dared to do it, as if nothing could stop us.
Today's article, in fact, is to re-walk with you through these decades.
What kind of dreams do we have in different eras? After all these years, in our body, which smells have changed and which have not changed?
Let's start with the hopeful '80s. There is a description on the Internet that people who have experienced the 80s are very different.
You've most likely heard the song "Tomorrow Will Be Better," which was released in the summer of 1985. On the cover of the cassette at the time, there were two sentences written on it:
No one is alone, we are all part of society
No one has the right to despair, we want to make tomorrow better
The last sentence is not "hope", not "expectation", but "we want to make tomorrow better".
This is the spiritual head of the young people of that era -
Reform and opening up, the transformation of the old and new periods, the emergence of ten thousand yuan households, with black and white television sets, the times are changing rapidly, new things emerge in an endless stream, as if you can do anything, do what you have a way out, from tomorrow onwards, the future is immeasurable.
Reader @ Hu Liangliang Her brother is a typical person who has rewritten his fate. He dropped out of junior high school and has been working hard in society with a hammer and a hammer in the west.
The career direction says that the good point is the all-rounder, and the ugly point is to do everything, repair the computer, open a restaurant, and do the lighting and dancing to build a shelf.
At the age of 30, he suddenly felt that life could not go on like this. So I went back to school, learned aircraft repairs, and learned English. He actually took the examination for almost all aircraft types of repair licenses, including foreign ones.
At the age of 33, he had a wife and children.
The efforts of people in that era were simple with romance, and plain with persistence.
It is this down-to-earth smell that makes everyone believe that tomorrow will be better.
If the decade mentioned above is like a door, then after pushing it open, in the next 10 years, young people are more brazen and want to run out.
You may still have the impression of how hot the Chinese women's volleyball team was 20 years ago. In @Chunxiao's words, just like Tfboys today.
That year, she watched the women's volleyball grand prix in Chengdu and took a photo with Sun Yue. Later, she kept writing letters to Sun Yue, saying that she only wanted to enter Peking University.
As a result, she was really admitted to Peking University. Sun Yue actually wrote a reply letter praising her for being wonderful.
On March 28, 1998, the first New Concept Competition was awarded. This was the most influential youth literature award in the country at that time, and the organizing committee received up to 400,000 submissions, with a elimination rate of 98%.
Thousands of young people across China are secretly writing. Everyone has a dream of being a writer, and some people have prepared several pen names.
Reader @Le Le Chen has contributed. At noon in his sophomore year of high school, he walked out of school to the post office and stuffed the envelope into the mailbox, which read No. 675 Julu Road, Jing'an District, Shanghai.
He told himself to remember that moment, to remember the sunshine, the noise around him and the anticipation in his heart.
It was the hot smell of youth.
In short, young people began to go all the way north and south, drifting to the big cities and realizing their dreams in distant places.
Luo Dayou's "Love Song 1990" has a comment at the bottom of the song:
"When I was ten years old, I was riding the train with my mother, and the middle-aged man sitting opposite was looping the song, and I kept looking out the window, and it was raining lightly outside, and I still remember that feeling.
"The vast road to the end of the world is your drifting."
At that time, you don't know what the future holds, but you dare to drift in all directions with your dreams.
Let's turn the clock on to now. Times have changed, people have changed, dreams have changed, but the way young people look at their dreams is exactly the same.
A reader once left me a message saying that he brought new college students this year, and one characteristic is obvious:
They have a lot of dreams and a lot of enthusiasm.
A lot of seemingly unreliable things, they are driven by enthusiasm, and they are really done.
For example, this year's young people are very fond of the national style. In almost every city in the country, you can see girls wearing Hanfu "dancing to clarify the shadow".
A few years ago, Hanfu was just a small circle at first. Nowadays, it is a group of young people who insist on popular science on social media, organize parties, and find friends, which has made it the hottest post-00 hobby today. The national tide has risen, and this generation of young people has become more culturally confident.
Not only are they adept at turning a niche hobby into a fire, but they are also extraordinarily resistant to loneliness under the influence of dreams.
Reader @⻩Bing CongXue" Ethnology, docent at the ethnographic museum at the school.
Frankly speaking, the benefits of doing lectures are almost non-existent, there are no salaries, there are not many tourists who listen carefully to the explanations, and they also have to spend time memorizing speeches, 8 exhibition halls, fifty-six musical instruments and costumes of the "ethnic group", and 100,000 words of explanatory materials, and they are growing and have no end.
But it is very strange that once she goes to the museum alone to recite the words and quietly looks at the costumes and cultural relics, she can hold on very calmly, like fate.
As soon as she stuck with it, she stuck with it for 5 years. That may be the power of love, she says.
What's more interesting is that every once in a while, they will come up with new tricks that will open people's eyes.
The "slime" that decompresses, the pia drama that directs the dubbing, the glue guy who plays the hand-made model, and the editor who chooses to edit the ideal CP because he can't stand it, they edit the love story of Sun Wukong and Tong Xiangyu, the emotional entanglement between Lin Daiyu and Voldemort, as long as people see it, they will clap their hands in laughter and admiration.
Age is no longer a restriction in this day and age, they are more free:
"When I was 30 years old, I walked into the boxing gym and timidly asked the curator, can I still learn boxing at the age of 30? The curator said lightly: You can learn at 60 years old.
I'm 35 years old and have gone from being a costume designer to a boxing coach. I try to keep remembering how I felt about the world when I was 25 and trying something new every year. ”
Thanks to the rapid development of the Internet and technology, they have more options:
"What I want to do in 2021 is to join my favorite esports team. Because of a chance to see the live show of eating chicken, the blood boiled for a long time.
I felt like I was suddenly thrown into a big rock in my stagnant life, which made me remember that I was still young! "@Green Worm
But what is more worth mentioning is that compared with the previous generations of young people, their original intentions have not changed.
The dreams are different, but they are serious about life and are not willing to give up.
@Wang studying in england, at that time, small dreams were not big in life - to make a good presentation.
The landlady made a good cup of coffee, so when he hid in his room to read on a rainy day in London, and when he stayed up late to do his homework, he had a cup of hot American at hand.
One day after returning home, he was sorting out his notes and found that a wad of A4 paper had all left the aroma of coffee. This is the trace of a dream.
@Alison After graduation and looking for a job, I want to go to the media of my dreams to officially join the job, and my resume has been brushed.
He should have given up, but he was not willing to run everywhere to attend the dream media seminars, and at the end he rushed up and handed over his resume to the person in charge.
We have to admit that dreams give people not only love, but also persistence and bravery.
"Although I still haven't received a follow-up interview notice, I think I will use this courage to go to a better place," he said. ”
The story ends here, which is both a review of the past few decades and a dialogue between three generations of young people.
Their experiences are different, but the taste inside is the same——
Believe that tomorrow will be better, believe that persistence can bring harvest, believe that everyone can chase their dreams, believe that love and faith can give people strength.
There is a long-standing saying that no one is always 18 years old, but there are always people who are 18 years old. It's a bit cheesy, but I think it's pretty hot-blooded.
When you were naïve, you must have been ignited by someone's dream. You have since embarked on the road of chasing dreams and burning this fire on more young people.
If you're tired at one point, think about it — there are so many people dreaming with you. This was true for the first 30 years, and it will be even more true for the next 30 years.
Article source: New Epoch Phase