We used to be so eager to grow up, thinking that we would be able to do anything when we grew up, until we grew up and realized that there was only a lot of powerlessness.
An adult who has grown up, in a society full of "civilization", we are gradually stained with the breath of civilization, when you look back, you will find that we are practicing the civilization of our time.
We follow civilization, according to his requirements, and in keeping with this era.
At first, maybe it was to fit in, maybe it was for some unavoidable life needs, but as we walked, we found ourselves forgetting where we had been.
Therefore, all our directions are to follow civilization and follow the trend.
It is our blessing to be born in this life.
It is our misfortune to be born in this life.
In the end, perhaps we will forget ourselves and truly become a product of civilization.
If you say, this is the price of growing up, then congratulations, adults who have grown up.
Grown up, do you remember the ending of the little prince?In order to leave the earth and return to the original planet, the little prince made a terrible deal...
After many years, if I were to do a continuation at the end of "The Little Prince", I would write it like this:
Many years later, the little prince was still like that, a beautiful child.
One day, the little prince sat on his planet watching the sunset, and his roses basking in the sun.
His mind flashed through the strange adults he had seen, and countless faces flashed, and he thought, I don't know if their power is big enough, I don't know if they have made enough money.
But he doesn't remember their faces anymore, his memory of them is a piece of data, a noun or a right, not a single person.
Suddenly, a face appeared in his mind, and it was the only face left, the one who had once given him a lamb.
The little prince suddenly missed him a little, he was an "interesting" person, he was not occupied by those numbers, he was not occupied by power, he was not occupied by money and fame, and in his heart, there was still a child living in his heart.
The little prince remembered him because he was a man, not a product of a civilization.
In our time, people are gradually replaced by civilization and live as a product of civilization, with certain civilizational labels attached to it: wealth, power, and fame.
But I would say, don't forget, you're one person first, and then something else.
This is the end of the continuation.
Looking back now, it seems that for many years, we have been pushed by civilization.
It's not that we're creating culture, it's that culture is rushing us forward to become a... kind of people.
Any "little prince", any person who has not been shaped by our civilization to succeed, as long as he travels around, it is not difficult to find what the little prince discovers when he travels.
The little prince's view of adults can be summed up like this:
Odd.In a wandering circle, he has seen too many strange people, too many strange things, they don't care about the sunset every day, they don't cry for a rose, they don't clean a useless little volcano...It's weird. It's weird.
And what they have to do is try to increase their property numbers, try to increase their deposit numbers, try to increase their fame ......
They seem to possess many substances, but in fact they are also possessed by many substances.
This is the adult he has met on his travels, and it is also the majority of people that any of us can meet when we travel!
However, they were also children, and they were also surprised by certain behaviors of adults. It's just that they have grown up and forgotten what they thought when they were children!
Every child grows up, every adult was a child, but they forget that they were once a child!
Why are adults so "boring"?
Because they know they've listened too muchUninterestingBecause they have seen too many boring stories, since they were children, there have been adults telling them boring stories!
In "The Little Prince", the author tells about his terrifying experience, he drew a snake, which is said to be a hat by adults;He saw a beautiful house, which was measured by the adults in the figure of 1 million francs.
Similarly, countless children will be instilled by their parents in the process of growing up with the concept that "you have to make good money in the future, and your parents let you study so that you can make more money".
A civilization composed of money supremacy and material pleasures is hung in the process of children's growth all the time!
The "most sensible child" is the child who has been successfully implemented by this civilization!I happened to read a poem to the effect that the elder brother and the younger brother in the countryside agreed to return to the countryside to farm in the future, but they did not dare to tell their father, who had been farming all their lives, because the father did not want them to remain farmers who farmed!
This father is not the only father, but the same hope of most fathers.
Such a son is by no means the only one, but the common voice of most children!
In the general environment, both fathers and sons have to abide by certain conventions!
When I was a child, I wanted to grow up, but I didn't think about what growing up was.
It wasn't until we grew up and hit a wall that we really thought about what it means to grow up!
If you look at it legally, eighteen years old is adulthood, that is, you grow up, and you can be responsible for yourself!Then, when you are 18 years old, you will grow up!
From this point of view, everyone will grow up, which is more in line with the process of growth!
If you look at independence, growing up means that a person can live according to his own ideas.
From this point of view, how many people can really grow up and really live their own ideas?
Whenever we are full of hope to live according to our own ideas, life returns to us again and again!has been hit again and again, just like Wang Xiaobo said, people are like cows, beaten hard by life!Pound into the dirt until you do what life expects!
After more blows, people have "learned helplessness", forgetting that they can resist in the first place, and we are finally keeping the same frequency as this culture!
We tell ourselves that this is growing up!
But are we independent?Aren't we even controlled by our own environment?
So growing up is just that we know more rules and follow more rules!
As for adults, I can't help but think of the battalion service!
People camp all day long, but they forget the poems and the distant fields.
People are busy all day long, occupied by external things such as numbers, fame, power, etc.
Maybe they'll never remember that they were happy, maybe they'll finally remember that they were happy.
Maybe they will finally find that their lives when they grow up are constructed by an irresistible civilization, and only the time when they were young is truly their own.
Everyone who grows up will make some of our civilizations stronger!It will become a part of the civilized machine, making the machine look more perfect and unified!