After middle age, I read Nana again and realized that one indulgence will ruin my life

"Look at Nana!"Nana"!!"Nana"!!

This used to be an advertising slogan printed on cigarette packs, and it spread all over the streets.

It was a day in February 1880, a bright spring day in Paris, France.

In this country, which is known for giving birth to romantic stories, with the best-selling ** "Nana", the writer Zola also ushered in the spring of his creation.

On the first day of publication on February 14**, 55,000 copies were sold, and as many as 1350,000 copies, creating a miracle in the world.

Flaubert was horrified when he read it: "I couldn't sleep at night because I read this book, and I was terrified. If you were to comment on the novelty and powerful tone of the book, there would be a ...... on every pageIt's an amazing book, it's awesome!”

The story tells the story of Nana, a fair-skinned and beautiful courtesan, who made countless powerful people bend their waists, go bankrupt, go to prison, commit suicide, have broken families, etc., all of which ended in tragic endings.

Nana herself died of smallpox, ugly and rancid, and a group of "friends" gathered around her, and not a single tear was shed for her.

Nana is as bright as fireworks, but there is no wonderful curtain call in her life, because she did three things wrong:Impulsiveness, bad habits and complaining.

Don't pay for impulsiveness

Because the price is too expensive, it can't be paid off

Nana is an actress, but her acting skills are so clumsy that she is laughable.

However, her beauty concealed all her shortcomings and fascinated men who wanted to be sensually happy.

When she sighed and smiled on stage, it was enough to make people feel breathless.

A young and childish boy in the theater couldn't help but shout: It's so beautiful.

It was recognized by all the audience, and gave a long and warm applause to Nana's performance.

Nana's debut performance was a huge success, bringing huge profits to the theater owner, and she also won the following of many powerful people.

The flowers they gave her filled the dressing room, and there were long queues of people waiting to go on a date with her.

However, Nana had to flee the theater under the cover of a maid and sneak out the back door to have a tryst with an old man, in order to give the money she had bought in exchange for her body to give to her aunt, who had been waiting for a long time, so that she could use it to treat her sick illegitimate son, Louis Jr.

Nana doesn't know who the father of the child is, because she only wants to be greedy for a while, she is pregnant and has children, and in order to survive, she has to mess with countless men, just for their money.

Many people are also like Nana, for the sake of a hot-headed impulse, spend their whole lives paying, and fall into the abyss from which they can't extricate themselves and regret it.

Have you found that the first thing that leads people astray is not the abyss, but nothing more than a small desire?

During one indulgence, say to yourself, it's okay.

A sentence when you consume blindly once, it won't be like this next time.

Really verified that sentence:All the gifts given by fate have long been secretly marked**.

Later, I found out that the slackness of thinking again and again made people fall into a bottomless black hole, and it was too difficult and too difficult to climb out of it.

The impulse of the moment often costs a lifetime.

Don't let bad habits lead you

Once addicted, there are endless consequences

The noble Count Steiner, in order to please Nana, spent a lot of money to buy a mansion for her, but he could not satisfy Nana's greed until he went bankrupt.

In order to meet Nana's needs, the wealthy merchant Fucarmon went from having everything to being exiled for debts and becoming a poor man with nothing.

Young Master George gave up his studies because of his love for Nana, and followed Nana in a lying truancy until he saw her watery Yanghua nature and committed suicide because of love.

Little George's brother Philip would rather give up his good future than have a private meeting with Nana, and finally went to prison for misappropriation.

They paid such a heavy price just to satisfy Nana's endless desire to consume.

Nana never knew what it meant to live within her means, and as long as she wanted to buy something, she would buy it at all costs.

Despite the thousands of dollars spent on her by so many people, she was still so poor that she couldn't afford to pay the bakery's money, her clothes, shoes and socks.

The bad habits of overconsumption have made Nana's life forever hovering on the verge of collapse.

Such a bad habit, at the beginning, is nothing more than wanting to eat a pack of desserts, want to dress beautifully, want to live comfortably, and it seems that there is nothing wrong with it, but once it is formed, it is difficult to change it.

There are many examples of this in life: love to stay up late, nothing, love to eat sweets, nothing, love to drink, nothing.

Some seemingly insignificant minor habits, once addicted, have endless consequences.

Staying up late makes my head bald, sweets corrode my teeth, and my alcohol addiction leads to depression and mental discouragement.

Once all the bad consequences are made, they will never be reversed, and which one does not start with indifferent little habits?

All blind behaviors, all reckless bad habits, once formed, become ingrained habits.

We will continue this habit until we have no way out.

Bad living habits have eroded away bit by bit, and it should be a good life.

Self-destruction,

It often starts with a complaint from the weak

A short trip to the countryside changed Nana's mind, and she wanted to retire and live a peaceful life.

Escaping from the pile of men chasing her, even if she can sleep alone for the night, is happy.

So, she locked her eyes on Fang Tang, a harlequin actor with ugly looks and vulgar manners, and after eyebrow-to-eye contact with him several times, Nana seemed to feel the long-lost love and thought that she would live happily ever after.

It's a pity that not long after they lived together, Fang Tang punched and kicked her.

And because of poverty, she began to sell Nana's things, and Nana, who was at the end of the road, was forced to be helpless in order to fill her stomach and support her son Louis Jr., so she was forced to return to her old business and become a street girl.

By chance, she met the old acquaintance of the street girl again, because of the fate of the same disease, they vented their bitterness to each other, comforted each other, Nana poured out all the dissatisfaction in her heart, and gained an unprecedented sense of relief.

Nana never thought that she was wrong from the beginning, and wanted to escape reality by marrying Fang Tang, but was slapped hard by the survival of reality.

Later, she wanted to solve the dilemma in front of her by complaining about her grievances, but she didn't know that the problem would not disappear automatically if she said it, but that she could only get out of it by paying real and effective actions.

Nana's approach, instead of helping her live a good life, plunged into deeper pain.

The sick psychology of the weak can only bring people into a desperate situation, which is the first step to ruin the whole life.

All the things that place the hope of life, once they lose a strong and independent mentality, will not be able to carry the future life.

Especially in those days when the epidemic was rampant, some people were really sick, and some people were scared sick.

Many people really get sick in the moaning without disease, and pay a heavy price for it.

The mentality of a strong person must have strong traits and must have a rational mind.

And pay real and effective actions in order to truly free yourself from the predicament.

Nana's fate reminds me of a description by the writer Zweig in "The Beheaded Queen":

She realizes that fate is too partial to her. She had a good journey and good fortune followed.

It wasn't until she needed to use her wits and abilities to save her own life and her children's lives that she realized that her life had been empty and pale, and that she had not amassed any strength to fight adversity.

If you hold back your impulsive desires, you have already stayed away from planting seedlings.

Develop good living habits from the bits and pieces, and do not let the ship of life deviate.

Tightly guard the strong self, stick to the barrier of mental health, and protect us from the safe zone.

We must be the first responsible person for our own life and hold up the safest umbrella for our future life.

It doesn't matter if you have money or not, don't do indulgent things, don't indulge in bad habits, and don't let fantasy replace action.

Stick to the faith, take every step steadfastly, live up to every day, and eventually meet with the beautiful.