It's hard to tell a person's age from his appearance now, so after I started my new job, I felt not much different from the people around me, and I usually talked smoothly at work.
It wasn't until one day we had lunch together and talked about my birthday that I realized that the girl next to me was 95 years old, and I felt old in an instant. 1988, she and I have two generation gaps. Looking at that energetic face is like looking at myself who has just entered the society. Middle-aged people have become my secret definition of myself.
Whether you want to admit it or not, it is an embarrassing thing for people to reach middle age, and the motivation for upward struggle is insufficient. I began to think about buying a house, buying a car, getting married and having children. Most of them went out for dinner and entertainment, not that kind of chic and casual.
People around us have become a state, not some philistines, only pursuing success. Although I don't know what the definition of success is, it seems that success has become the only pursuit of life. I am busy spending year after year, no longer joking or gossiping. There are only three things left in China: going to work, getting off work and going home. At best, it is called no desire; At worst, it is called being unable to integrate into the society of young people.
People born in 1997, 20 years old, are about to enter the workplace, patting us who have struggled on the beach for many years. Everyone has two hands and a head, but everyone really has different ideas.
I can sacrifice time for work, I can work overtime for free, and I can show superficial respect for leaders, but many young people can't do this. They are willful, they are reckless, and they show their personalities at will, just like we used to. At this time, I really think they are the sun at seven or eight o'clock, and the world is theirs, not ours.
Because of the nature of my work, I often have to contact many college students. Although I am not too old in appearance, all my ideas are out of date, and everything around me reminds me that I am middle-aged and no longer a young man.
Many people say that a young mind is really young, but it will wear away your mind after a long time, and not many people can stay young all the time. With more experience, there are always gains and losses. With sadness and happiness, with commitment and escape, we learn to be more smooth. Life grinds us more round, just to make us roll further. Now that I'm gone, I can't feel the carefree feeling when I was kicked out.
I used to think that the world deceived me, but now I know that the world never deceives anyone. He is like this, but we can't see his true face clearly. Middle age is not the definition given to us by society, but our own feelings. At that moment, you really realized how terrible life is after 30 years. Time flies too fast, life is overwhelmed, and only a little inertia is left to push us forward, but this power will eventually disappear. We are the fastest at this time, but the ripe fruit means that he will be corrupt. That infatuation with depravity makes us feel out of place in this world, and maybe eventually.
Middle age is the best time and the worst time. If we can't go further, then we will sink forever. In this era, crying or laughing, exultation and self-indulgence are the main themes of life. What we have to do is to find our true self, so that when we are old, we won't have regrets, and we hope to use our middle age to make a perfect annotation for life!