On the title page of his novel Life, Lu Yao wrote:
"No one's path in life is straight, there are no forks.
There are some forks in the road where you take a wrong step, which can affect a period of life or a lifetime. ”
A person's life is like doing a multiple-choice question.
Some choices have a small score, but some have a large number of points, which directly determines the quality of fate.
The protagonist of the book, Gao Jialin, has lofty ambitions, looks, talents, and abilities, and works hard enough, but because of three wrong choices at a critical fork in the road in life, he has never been able to change his fate and write a successful life.
In fact, Gogarin's choice dilemma is not a life problem for each of us.
Let's walk into Gogarin's life and find our right answers in his mistakes.
When encountered, choosing to sink will only distort the mind
After failing the college entrance examination, Gao Garin has been working as a private teacher in the village.
Originally, according to Gogarin's best ambition, he was to be admitted to university and enter the city to become a man of culture.
Although I am not a college student now, it is also a good choice to teach in school, not to work in the fields, and to earn full labor share.
He is full of hope for the future, and plans to pass the exam in a few years and become a full-fledged national teacher.
However, just when his fighting spirit was high, a thunderbolt on a sunny day beat him to the ground.
It turned out that the second son of Gao Minglou, the village party secretary, graduated from high school, and he didn't want his son to farm, so he used the power in his hand to replace Gao Jialin.
Gao Jialin was so angry that he wanted to write a report letter, but Gao's father and mother let him bear it.
Father Gao Yude said: "When people live low, they must come according to the low." ”
Although he gave up the idea of filing a lawsuit, he did not agree with his father's words.
For the matter of being replaced, he was obsessed with it, gave up on himself, and lived in pain every day.
For the first month, he was slumped in bed all day, either keeping his eyes open in the dark all night long, or holding a cigarette and spitting smoke into the roof.
Later, although he went to work in the fields, he tortured himself with a depressive and perverted psychology and destructive labor.
As if he was angry with someone, he changed into the most tattered clothes, tied a straw rope around his waist, and "disguised" himself as more peasant than a peasant.
When he was working, he didn't speak, he dug the ground as if he was deadly, and his hands were blistered and bleeding, and he didn't stop dyeing his pouts red.
The family ran out of money, so his mother steamed a pot of steamed buns, and his father asked him to take them to the county to sell them so that he could do one less day of farm work.
But his father's kindness made Gogarin feel even more painful.
He couldn't bear the mental torture more than the physical pain.
In the past, he was a cultural man with his head held high, neat and straight, but now he is a farmer carrying a basket and rushing to sell buns.
Such a gap has hit his overly strong self-esteem.
In the face of the kindness and concern of his former classmates, he became very mean, and his classmates couldn't get off the stage because of what he said.
Facing the parents of classmates who went to the street to buy buns, he hid like a thief, for fear that the other party would see him.
Later, he simply hid in the reading room of the cultural center, and when he came out, the market had already dispersed.
Lu Yao said in the book: "Life is always like this, we can't be satisfied everywhere, but we still have to live enthusiastically." People live a lifetime, there are many things worth loving, don't be discouraged because one is not satisfied. ”
The road of life is tortuous, and there are far more adversities than good ones.
The value of human beings is to maintain a positive heart when they are hit.
If you are discouraged and distort your mind, you will only sink deeper and deeper into the mire of pain.
Only by not giving up, not giving up, and going against the current can we jump out of the quagmire.
When the opportunity comes, the bottom line will be liquidated sooner or later
The replacement of the teacher's position has always been a hurdle in Gao Jialin's heart.
Every time he thought about it, he couldn't help but grit his teeth, and always had a strong feeling of revenge.
Perhaps this desire was too strong, and it didn't take long for him to wait for an opportunity to raise his eyebrows.
His uncle in the army has returned from a job transfer and is about to take a high position in the local labor bureau.
As soon as the news came out, it immediately caused a sensation, and the status of the Gogarin family rose.
This also made Gao Minglou, who conspired to handle the replacement, and Ma Zhansheng, a former education officer and now a cadre of the Labor Bureau, tremble.
They feared that Gogarin would file a complaint with his uncle and make their position unsecure.
Therefore, Gao Minglou and Ma Zhansheng discussed privately and decided to work together to find a better position for Gao Jialin and appease him.
Ma Zhansheng opened the upper and lower joints and "skillfully" recruited Gao Jialin into the communication group of the county party committee.
Gogarin's work this time went unusually well, and he was hired after filling out only one form.
For this low-hanging fruit, he didn't doubt it, and with his cleverness, he had already guessed that this was going through the "back door".
And compared with the "back door" that Gao Minglou took for his son before, the "back door" he walked this time was bigger.
"Now it's against this thing everywhere", and his uncle once told him: "This kind of thing must not be done." ”
In terms of right and wrong, Gogarin knew that he should not accept the post of communications officer, but selfishly, he was extremely eager to get rid of his peasant status.
So, with the luck mentality of "what is found out is a minority", he chose to give up justice and go to work in the county party committee compound from selfishness and grandeur.
He used to hate Gao Minglou and Ma Zhansheng so much, but now for his own interests, he is willing to become a slave of power.
But like a building built on a cliff, the foundation is unstable, and the higher the building is built, the faster it will collapse.
Accepting an unknown position, the better Gogarin worked, the more popular he became.
Just when he was at his most proud, he was exposed.
Gao Garin, who could not withstand the scrutiny, was dealt with seriously, his position was not guaranteed, and his account was returned.
On the road of life, there will be many tests, sometimes it is an opportunity, but more often, it is a test of character.
Some options may seem like opportunities, but they are actually pitfalls.
Once the bottom line is crossed, even if a beautiful pavilion in the air is built in a short period of time, sooner or later it will face the day when the building collapses and falls.
Emotional test, half-heartedness will eventually lose the love
Gogarin's wrong choice is not only reflected in his career outlook, but also in his outlook on love.
At the lowest point in his life, Gogarin was still lucky.
Because he met Qiaozhen, a young, beautiful, kind-hearted girl.
In the words of Grandpa Deshun, Qiaozhen is a girl who is "like gold".
There are two capable people in the entire Gaojia Village, one is Gao Minglou who is in power, and the other is Liu Liben, who can do business.
Qiaozhen is Liu Liben's second daughter, her face is as beautiful as a flower, her figure is as slender and straight as a little poplar, and she is also shrewd.
When it was time to get married, the person who proposed the marriage broke through the threshold, and the sincere horse bolt came to ask for marriage every now and then, but Qiaozhen always shouldn't.
Because she already has a sweetheart, it is the Gagarin who came from a poor family and lost his position as a teacher.
When everyone was not optimistic about Gao Jialin, Qiaozhen held out a sincere heart for him:
When he couldn't sell the buns because of his face, Qiaozhen took the initiative to take the basket and help him sell the buns;
When he was struggling with farm work and self-torture, Qiaozhen gave him potions and cotton wool to make him cherish his body;
When he was going to work in the county seat, Qiaozhen gave his full support and took care of his old father and mother for him.
Being liked by such a well-off, beautiful-looking, kind and beautiful girl is undoubtedly Gogarin's luck.
However, such a "gold-like" treasure, Gao Garin did not know how to cherish it.
In the county seat, he met his former high school classmate Huang Yaping again.
Huang Yaping's background is better, his father is the Minister of the Armed Forces;
Huang Yaping's profession is even better, she is an announcer at the county radio station;
Huang Yaping's taste is higher, not only dressing fashionably, but also talking to him.
After Huang Yaping took the initiative to pursue him, Gao Jialin wavered.
He put his love and future on a balance, thinking that if he married Qiaozhen, the farthest in his life would be in the county seat.
And marrying Huang Yaping, he can take advantage of his parents-in-law to develop in a bigger city.
After weighing his interests, he ignored his conscience, abandoned Qiaozhen, who loved him, and chose the more promising Huang Yaping.
Perhaps it confirms the saying, "The self-interested are the first to perish." ”
After being reported, what came with unemployment was his breakup with Huang Yaping.
When Gao Jialin returned to Gaojia Village with nothing and a disgraced face, he finally realized his love for Qiaozhen.
But at that time, Qiaozhen had already married someone else, and this belated sincerity could never be exchanged for Qiaozhen.
The tearful line in "Journey to the West":
"There was once a sincere love in front of me, I didn't cherish it, and I regretted it when I lost it, and there is nothing more painful in the world than this."
True love is hard to find, true love is hard to find. If you do, you have to be single-minded.
Half-hearted people will eventually miss out on their lover and rub shoulders with happiness.
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Returning to the countryside again, it was different from what Gogarin had envisioned.
In the face of his embarrassment, he was greeted not with ridicule, but with the tolerance and comfort of the villagers.
Grandpa Deshun also specially waited for him in Damahe Bay and told him:
"Doll, don't be discouraged, a man, not afraid of falling, just afraid of falling and not getting up."
At this time, Gogarin had a complete epiphany that his previous choice was so wrong that he not only messed up his own life, but also messed up the lives of others.
After learning the hard way, he solemnly said, "I will start my life again." ”
It was said: "In the hearts of each of us, there is a Gogarin." ”
In the past, we may miss or fall on the road of life, but the next road in life is still very long, the past is gone, and the future can be expected.
May you not be lost, not lost, brave in your future life, worthy of every choice.
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