In today's era when all things need the help of strategy, I feel that I am really tired of all kinds of spiritual chicken soup and practical skills. Frankly speaking, if an adult over 30 years old still needs to rely on other people's strategies to guide his life, then there is a high probability that in the second half of his life he still understands so many truths, but is still unable to live well.
But I am willing to let Harriet, the heroine of the "Last Words" that I have written three times in a row, be my life benchmark, because she is a cool woman model.
At the age of 20, we cannot fully understand the cruel truth that the world is the survival of the fittest. At the age of 30, we finally understand that the world is indeed not tender. In order to have more initiative in life, we must go all out to avoid giving up this wonderful world to lazy people.
And Harriet is the model of life that goes all out to the cubic.
When she was young, she was an ambitious, a bitch in the eyes of peers, a devil in the eyes of her subordinates, and a work machine with no emotion in the eyes of her daughter. But she is shining and she is the king in her own world.
When she was old, she was still a careerist, an unreasonable tricky customer in Anne's eyes, an old monster who snatched her job in the eyes of a radio DJ, and a drugless person who hadn't conducted any self-reflection in the eyes of her daughter for 30 years. Saved stranger. But she is still shining, and she is still the king of her own world.
This kind of irreverent self is simply awesome.
Sometimes we feel that the world is too large and complicated. Everyone in it has to play a thousand roles, and the definer and judge of each role is not himself. But we often have to wear countless masks for the definition and evaluation of that other person's mouth.
But the omnipotent God of time and experience has slowly taught us a truth. In fact, life is minimal, and all definitions and ratings have only one judge: oneself. Harriet is still the life model of the cubic of that self.
She knew that she had robbed someone else’s job, but she still robbed it, because she could not bear the imperfect result of the work; she knew that the children in the orphanage had a miserable life and needed her material support, but she could not stand the teachers at all. Innovative preaching and stupid's rules; she knew that she used a truck to drag a letter from the company's name of a young competitor away, and people would scold her behind her back as the dead old bitch; she also knew it for so many years She did not do well in the role of a mother in the traditional sense. But what does it matter? To make yourself cool and make others cool is inherently a pair of contradictions. As for her daughter, frankly speaking, parents and children are two separate individuals from the moment the umbilical cord is cut. As for any mother, she is also a social person first, and a mother second.
Yes, in the end she still failed to really reconcile with her daughter. But what does it matter? Who stipulated that life must be reconciled with all people and things?
Perhaps Harriet can be softer, because she has also shown a lot of kindness. She gave her colleagues' career advice when she was young, and gave her gentleness to the stranger Anne and the orphan Brenda in her old age, as well as her calm care for her daughter. But this is also her right, soft or hard. And who has stipulated that we must speak softly to others in a gentle and pleasant manner?
And the most powerful thing about this old cool lady is that although the whole world hates her deeply, because she feels that everyone else is bullshit, not as good as her. But she quietly became a benchmark for those around her. The person in charge of the radio station thought her program was amazing. Anne had the courage to quit her job to pursue a bigger world because of her brief time with her. As for her daughter, although she was so angry that she did not finish her meal with her, she was right. Looking at her daughter's back, she proudly said: Look, so good, because she is my daughter.
This kind of obsession and full sense of grasp of life is really cool. And this full sense of certainty has given us two enlightenments: First, go all out to be yourself, if you are satisfied with your life, there is a high probability that others will feel that you carry light; second, life’s Sadness and joy may not be interlinked, but the efforts of life are interlinked, and those who succeed here are not much different from others.
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