The lights and traffic in big cities are really desirable. The bustling city life, the mixed banquet, the fascinating gorgeous costumes, the swaying posture of modern girls, the blurred eyes and the rose-like lip color are a unique scenery.

It's always full of competition and opportunities. If you have the strength and ability, if you catch a good opportunity, you will easily stand out. You can prove yourself in a few years and get a promotion and salary increase. You can jump from one company to another and experience different jobs.

You don't have to worry that the mode of boiling frogs in warm water will kill your fighting spirit and make you lose your love for life. You see, your life is not mediocre. Although you are ordinary, you can live an extraordinary life.

You can enjoy the most luxurious goods and the highest service. You can fly everywhere at any time, from this city to that city and from this country to that country.

You can travel, the romance in Bali, the blue sky in santorini, the hot spring resorts in Japan, the sunshine in California and so on.

But unfortunately, you are the one who works hard in the big city. You get up early every day, grab a loaf of bread, and you are afraid that you will miss the bus or subway, and you are afraid that you will miss the working hours. You share a cheap rental house with one person or several people, and you are trying to save property fees and utilities from your meager salary every month. You can't afford Chanel or Armani.

Your shirt is worn out and your shoes are unglued. When picking fruits, only dare to pick those that look similar and are not completely rotten. You continue to work hard, make money and save money in order to send more money home.

Your parents called to ask how you were doing. You said happily on the phone that you were doing well, but when you hung up, you squatted down and hugged yourself and cried. You think you have to struggle alone, and you think you really have to give up. You suddenly doubt your persistence and whether your dream is just a dream.

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In a small city, he may just go to work lazily every day, drink tea and read newspapers, watch news broadcasts after work and help his wife pick up edamame and vegetables. When I am lucky, I will be a small leader, but I don't know what the format is when I write a title essay. When I write the annual work report, I copy it directly online, change my name, and change the time and place.

Young, she may have found a bad job, married a person with a good family by virtue of her beauty, and then stayed at home to take care of the children and cook after marriage. When she was unlucky, her husband cheated on her, her children were disobedient, and she became a yellow-faced woman, from a gentle woman to an aggressive dissatisfied woman.

In the long river of time, I forgot to tidy myself up and take care of myself. In the long river of years, I only want to pay for my husband and my children, but I forget that women should love themselves no matter how old they are. When you are lucky, have a son to please your parents-in-law. Give birth to a daughter when you are unlucky, and be rejected and nagged by your mother-in-law all day.

Perhaps, with more time, I will play mahjong with my neighbors, go to the square dance with my aunt, and say that my parents' short day will pass. Holding a fixed salary every month, I have forgotten my original dream and don't know how to improve myself. I like idol dramas at eight o'clock better than reading books. I prefer to eat myself fat rather than go to the gym to exercise, and I say that being fat is a fortune.

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Some people say that it is good to live in a big city because you can find a job that suits you and have many choices. Some people say that small cities are good because there is less competition and the pace is not fast. In fact, no matter where you live, you need to work hard and struggle. There is no natural luck, only your enterprising spirit and courage not afraid of failure.

My thesis advisor is a big boy in the northeast sunshine. I call him that because he is not the old professor with glasses and gray hair you imagined. In this age of looking at faces, his side face alone can kill your girl's heart and find teeth everywhere. He looks particularly like David in the struggle. That handsome guy doesn't provoke a girl's heart like a beautiful man, but he has a different kind of cleanliness and comfort.

For the convenience of narration, we call him Z Jun. In fact, I didn't know Z Jun well at first, but I always felt that it was not groundless to hear that my senior sister had a crazy crush on him and set his photo as a computer screen. The first time I really met Z Jun, he was invited to our class party. In the farmhouse, he plays billiards skillfully and looks like a college student.

Later, our thesis was divided into tutors. Unexpectedly, I was assigned to the thesis guidance group of Z Jun. My first reaction at that time was over. I heard from my classmates that young thesis instructors are very demanding, and some thesis instructors will scold you for crying, but I really can't make up the scene where Z Jun scolded you for crying.

As a matter of fact, Mr. Z is a patient and meticulous thesis instructor, including the unsmooth sentence expression, and will point it out and correct it for you, and mark it with a red pen. Other students in the group are not confident, and he encourages them with kindness, rather than criticizing them casually. I heard that he didn't do very well as a counselor before, and I also heard some unpleasant words from my classmates about Mr. Z. I prefer to believe what I saw with my own eyes than what I heard with my own eyes.

Besides, Z Jun has just arrived at the university and started to be a counselor, so it is inevitable that there will be omissions. After all, the work of counselors is trivial and there are many chores. No one has ever ignored this situation. To make a metaphor, Z Jun is like a newcomer who has just entered the workplace. Who can guarantee that newcomers will not make mistakes? I just think a teacher's job needs to be understood.

As the first graduate student of calligraphy enrolled by the School of Humanities, Z Jun's calligraphy is natural, young and gentle, and he writes better than those little old men. After exchanging WeChat with Z Jun, I chatted with Z Jun and found him very interesting. He will give you some advice like a big brother without putting on airs.

In the circle of friends, he goes cycling or traveling with friends from time to time, from Lijiang to Tibet, or drying his calligraphy works, and also has photos of participating in activities with students. Sometimes I drink tea, sometimes I write poems, sometimes I burn incense, and when it rains, I send a message, "I heard it's raining, and music is more suitable for lower case letters."

After getting familiar with Z Jun, I realized that Z Jun gave up his job in Beijing and came to teach in a university in Yunnan. Sometimes, I will inevitably ask, "Teacher, don't you want to go home?" How often do you go home? "For such a question, he would say yes, go home twice a year. I said it's not easy to go home twice a year after work.

I think of a sentence, "My hero rushes everywhere", and Z Jun is one of them. Z Jun said that he likes his present life very much, because he can do more things he likes. If he were in Beijing, his work and life would be too busy to do many things he likes, which is one of the reasons why he came to this small town. If Mr. Z is described in one sentence, I think it should be "there are bandits and gentlemen, such as sharpening" in The Book of Songs.

Z Jun also reminds me of a sentence, you have to believe that there are always people in this world who live the life you want. Who said that a small city can't pass poetry? Who said that having a stable job will kill your passion and fighting spirit? I believe that the real meaning of work is for a better life, and Z Jun is the best interpretation.

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Like many young girls, I also yearn for the prosperity and variety of big cities, and imagine the beauty of poetry and distance. But if I want to live, I still want to live in a small town. Besides being a child from the countryside, I prefer the human touch and leisure time of the town.

I like to live the most ordinary life in a small town, but I pursue extraordinary dreams and turn every ordinary day into a poem, a shining bead and a beautiful jade.

If I live in a small town, I want to live like this:

No matter how bad things happen in life, we should learn to face ourselves bravely and solve problems bravely instead of running away. We should not close our hearts, but feel the sunshine every day, full of positive energy like sunflowers.

With the progress of science and technology, we eat more and more greenhouse vegetables or genetically modified foods, and many foods are sprayed with chemical fertilizers and pesticides. We seldom eat natural green vegetables grown by farmers' uncles, so we don't have to worry about getting sick or undernourished.

Picking vegetables by yourself is a very pleasant thing. You can feel the scenery in the fields, relax yourself and enjoy cooking delicious food. You can cook whatever you like and feel every step of the cooking, instead of killing yourself by eating a fast food.

Modern fast-paced life rarely allows us to watch the beauty of nature night and listen to the crickets. The gorgeous lights of the city also mask the beauty of the starry sky. If you are in the country, you can sit on the lawn and look up at the most beautiful moonlight and starlight. In summer, you can see fireflies and lotus flowers in the lotus field. Pick a flower and put it in a vase, which embellishes the cold silence of home.

I especially like the Spring Festival in the countryside, which is very lively and has a special flavor of the year. I like to watch children pay New Year's greetings and ask for lucky money. I like to help my parents make New Year's Eve dinner. I like watching my parents bring their loved ones and look forward to their return. I like listening to my parents nag. I like to watch my father and lover drink a little wine to win the battle, and I like my neighbors to be guests. Talking about my parents' shortcomings, I can feel the truest fireworks and the simplest warm feelings.

Although we live in a small town, as long as we have time, we can go out more, see the lakes and mountains, enjoy the beautiful scenery, feel the historical culture, humanistic characteristics and delicious food of various places, and make our life more colorful.

Whether writing tea or painting flowers, or taking photos, playing ball and cooking, I think the purpose of persisting in learning skills is to make our world more colorful and life more interesting. We can have fun in this process and make more like-minded friends.

I believe that as long as we are willing to work hard and struggle, we can live the life we like and the life we want.