"Part-time job for accommodation"As a novel way of traveling, it set off a boom in the country in 2015. People are becoming more interested in finding homestays that offer volunteer opportunities during their travels, and do light work in exchange for free room and board.
This approach is very different from the traditional way of travel, which is just a quick visit to the major attractions, while the "work for accommodation" gives people the opportunity to slowly integrate into the local life, make new friends and experience the local customs.
This decision changed Gu Shaoqiang's dull life for thirty-five years, a trip of fate. In the Spring Festival of 2015, Gu Shaoqiang embarked on a journey to Dali with simple luggage and stayed in a homestay.
During the days of volunteering at the B&B, she had a lot of time to appreciate the folk culture of Dali, go out to play, and meet a lot of interesting friends in the B&B. This decision filled her life with color and fun.
In Gu Shaoqiang's shop, a tall man with small pigtails, intricate tattoos on his arms, and a free and uninhibited temperament all over his body made Gu Shaoqiang's eyes shine.
His vicissitudes of singing filled the entire space, and a wonderful chemistry had between him and Gu Shaoqiang, which made her feel inexplicably intimate and familiar with him.
After a few seconds, Gu Shaoqiang turned up the volume with a smile and started talking to him naturally. The man's name is Yu Fu, a native of Sichuan, who runs a barber shop and travels around the country.
Gu Shaoqiang and Yu Fu, two travel enthusiasts, were attracted to each other from the first moment they met. Their conversation was filled with love for life, work and travel, and it was not enough until nightfall.
Can you leave your ***? Yu Fu smiled and took out his mobile phone, and with a straightforward personality, he sent a request to Gu Shaoqiang. Gu Shaoqiang smiled and nodded, and readily agreed.
From then on, the two were in frequent and close contact, and gradually, a special affection developed between them. So, in less than two months, their love quickly heated up and was as sweet as honey.
As the winter vacation draws to an end, the day of returning to school is getting closer and closer, which makes Gu Shaoqiang fall into an inner struggle. She has fallen in love with this leisurely and comfortable life in the ancient city, enjoying the company of her husband, and she doesn't want to go back to that boring life.
However, if she chooses to stay in the ancient city, she will have to give up that stable life and work, which means that she must let go of everything she used to manage with all her heart.
Faced with these two very different lifestyles, Gu Shaoqiang knew that he had to make a choice. After much deliberation, she decided to quit her job as a teacher, follow her inner voice, and be brave enough to live her life.
Yu Fu was very surprised to hear the news, and he advised her not to be impulsive and to think twice. After all, the job of a secondary school teacher is an iron rice bowl, with a stable income, good benefits, and three months of vacation to rest every year.
Gu Shaoqiang was already tired of stability, and she insisted on taking control of her life. Some people may ask, will she really give up her position as a teacher and a comfortable life for the sake of chance?
In fact, her desire to leave the mediocre life did not begin with meeting Yu Fu, this idea has appeared in her mind countless times. What made her so determined to quit?
It has a lot to do with her upbringing. When she was a child, her parents were intellectuals and had a busy schedule, so they could only leave her home alone, and the lonely air became her only companion.
Her childhood was confined to a closed family space, and she longed to get in touch with the outside world and to yearn for good things, but she was overwhelmed by the dull and intense pace of growing up.
From elementary school to high school, Gu Shaoqiang's life is like that of a child in a traditional Chinese family, walking along the ** avenue paved with test papers, and there is no second way to choose.
Her mother's expectations are like an invisible whip that drives her to keep moving forward on the single-plank bridge of exam-oriented education, even at the cost of bleeding. She couldn't stop thinking about the life she wanted, because every moment of her life was filled with weekly and monthly exams.
And the desire for freedom that was once buried in the bottom of my heart has gradually lost the soil for growth in this boring and monotonous but fulfilling study life. However, the hard work pays off.
After years of hard study, Gu Shaoqiang finally paid off in the year of the college entrance examination. In 2000, she was admitted to the Department of Education of Henan Normal University with excellent results, majoring in psychology, and graduated four years later with a bachelor's degree in psychology.
Although Gu Shaoqiang's career is smooth sailing, his inner troubles are increasing day by day. She is as good as her, and after graduation, she successfully joined Henan Experimental High School and started her teaching career.
However, behind the seemingly perfect life lies her mother's manipulation, her desire for a free life"Good girl"The deeper the illusion becomes. Although her job as a teacher brings her the satisfaction of devoting herself to teaching, innovating teaching forms and enriching students' learning experiences, this satisfaction has faded under the pressure of the college entrance examination.
As an undervalued subject, psychology cannot be fully developed in high school, which makes Gu Shaoqiang's sense of loss increasingly aggravated.
The twice-a-year trip has become Gu Shaoqiang's magic key to decompression. Every winter and summer vacation, she will pack her bags and start a journey of exploration. During her travels, she was able to release stress, get close to nature and listen to the voices of her heart.
While other colleagues were busy falling in love, getting married, and taking care of their families, Gu Shaoqiang enjoyed the majesty of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses in Xi'an, and felt the leisure and comfort brought by the sunshine and sea breeze by the sea.
Traveling soothed her soul and made her understand her own needs. With each trip, her longing for the constraints of an ordinary life grows stronger. It wasn't until she met a like-minded husband in the ancient city of Dali that she found love and saw a completely different way of life, and finally decided to resign.
After the Spring Festival, Gu Shaoqiang returned to Henan Experimental Middle School to give his students the last class and officially submitted his resignation letter. In this way, overnight, she shocked the whole country with the short ten words "The world is so big, I want to see it".
Gu Shaoqiang, a psychology teacher who has served diligently at the school for 11 years, decided to submit an idealistic resignation letter. When the principal saw this brief resignation letter, it was difficult to connect it with Gu Shaoqiang, who was strict and serious on weekdays.
However, he did not realize what kind of shock the letter would cause. He would not have expected that these just ten words would cause a heated discussion on the Internet. Originally, Gu Shaoqiang planned to write "quit and travel" on the resignation letter, but because she was full of expectations for the upcoming unknown life, she finally decided to express it in a more poetic sentence.
So, there is the sentence "The world is so big, I want to see it." Next, Gu Shaoqiang took his suitcase and resolutely ran to Chengdu, where her partner Yu Fu was, and started a new life.
When she landed in Chengdu and turned on her phone, she realized that she had become an Internet celebrity.
Once, when Gu Shaoqiang's resignation letter was posted to the circle of friends by his colleagues, everyone was very surprised. However, the phrase quickly spread quickly on the web and became a hot topic.
Gu Shaoqiang's popularity fully reflects the tremendous pressure on contemporary young people. Since childhood, they have been facing stiff competition, whether it is schooling, marriage, buying a house, or raising children.
The pressure of the times is like a whip, relentlessly whipping people, making them spin like spinning tops, never able to stop, and unable to have the time and courage to think about whether this kind of life is really what they want.
However, Gu Shaoqiang dared to step out of his comfort zone and greet the unknown life with a vibrant heart. This kind of courage and enthusiasm is deeply admirable, and it also makes her popular on the Internet.
Netizens have ** Gu Shaoqiang's story and praised her resignation letter as "the most sentimental resignation letter". In the face of sudden attention and praise, Gu Shaoqiang did not feel bothered, but started a sweet double trip with her partner Yu Fu.
In three months, they traveled to Hainan, Xiamen, Xi'an and other cities together, enjoying the happy time in love.
Although Gu Shaoqiang and Yu Fu's ideals are beautiful, they cannot be separated from reality. Although Gu Shaoqiang's work is good, his hobby of travel consumes a lot. It took her eleven years to save more than 10,000 yuan.
Seeing the rapid decrease in the number on the bank card, Gu Shaoqiang began to worry: if this continues, he may end up with nothing. The conflict between ideals and reality began to emerge.
Gu Shaoqiang became famous overnight because of his resignation letter, which brought her many opportunities to monetize her fame. Many tourism ** saw the huge commercial value and advertising effect behind her, and threw olive branches to her.
As long as Gu Shaoqiang advertised for them during the trip, they would give her a good reward. However, Gu Shaoqiang does not want to confuse ideals with business.
No matter what sky-high price the travel ** offered, she rejected them one by one. She is not willing to give up her ideals and principles for the sake of money.
Gu Shaoqiang and Yu Fu declined the endorsement invitation with a million-dollar salary, and strengthened their philosophy: money is not everything, dreams are the cornerstone of life. They eventually decided to return to Chengdu and open an inn to realize their romantic ideals.
However, they didn't have enough money, so they raised money everywhere and ended up scraping together more than a million. They used the money to open an inn called "Far Away Inn" and renovated it according to their own hearts.
In October 2015, the "Far Return Inn" was officially opened, and they also held a simple and warm wedding in the inn.
After the news of Gu Shaoqiang and Yu Fu's marriage came out, relatives and friends sent blessings and gifts, but the two resolutely refused, saying: "If you have to give a red envelope, it is better to send a book." ”
This sentence immediately attracted the attention of many netizens, and they sent gifts one after another, and hundreds of books from all over the country flew to the warm Yuanhui Inn for the couple, sending them the most sincere wedding wishes.
Gu Shaoqiang felt the warmth and happiness brought by the scent of ink and books, and gently stroked the pages with his palm. With the opening of the inn, more and more netizens came to visit, and the business of the inn was extremely prosperous.
Gu Shaoqiang and Yu Fu, as the proprietress of the hostess, run an inn. Because of the scarcity of manpower in the town, Gu Shaoqiang can only be responsible for the sanitation work of the inn himself, and she has to clean the room, change the bed sheets, and even brush the toilet and mop the floor when the business is good.
Although this kind of life is different from her former 9-to-5 job, it is far from the "ideal life" she pursues. After some netizens stayed in the inn, they found that the actual situation here was far from the "idealism" they imagined, and Gu Shaoqiang and Yu Fu were no different from other innkeepers, and they couldn't help but feel disappointed and deceived.
With the discussion and questioning on the Internet, Gu Shaoqiang's image began to decline, and young people who once regarded her as a spiritual symbol against the loss of life began to question her original intention of resigning, believing that her coming to the inn from her resignation was nothing more than a business method of self-marketing and deceiving the public.
Gu Shaoqiang once said that he would not participate in any commercial activities, but the fact is that he not only opened an inn, but also accepted the employment of a company in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, to become a "lifelong free smart travel experiencer".
Although some people questioned his inconsistency, Gu Shaoqiang said that he does not reject all business activities, as long as business activities can have a positive impact on society, in line with his interests and hobbies, and within his ability, he will try.
He knows that only by combining reality can his ideals be realized, and he himself is using his own actions to strive to turn his ideals into reality.
Gu Shaoqiang's every decision was well thought out, she followed her heart's choice, even if her resignation seemed impulsive, it was to truly find satisfaction and happiness in life.
In the face of attacks from netizens, she did not give up taking on some business activities that she was interested in, because that was not only her way of survival, but also her way of spreading positive energy.
She is not against business, only against those who just want to use her momentary fame to make money. She will actively participate in worthwhile, normal business activities, because that is what she is after.
Gu Shaoqiang, the person who once kept saying that he wanted to see the world, how is it now? Seven years flew by, and some people were curious about her state of life.
Although some people in the town will still question the logic of her own work, Gu Shaoqiang has always maintained her unique way of thinking. Now, in addition to the identity of the innkeeper, she also has the identity of a mother and a psychological counselor, and this multi-identity lifestyle makes her life more colorful.
Gu Shaoqiang not only runs the inn with her heart, but at the same time, she also found her old job and opened a psychological counselor studio. Her life is still colorful, including yoga, running, guqin, Go, and even published a book.
In 2016, she became a mother and began to learn how to be a good mother, and she plans to take her daughter on a trip to explore more unknown worlds.
Life is not only about what is in front of you, but also about poetry and distance. This sentence may be the best interpretation of Gu Shaoqiang's living state. She chose to give up a stable and comfortable life and choose a richer and freer lifestyle, but at the same time more harder.
We can't judge whether her choice is right or wrong, as long as she can find satisfaction in it, it is the most fulfilling life for her.