When I was a student, many people probably liked Tao Yuanming's works. Many people are fascinated by the fresh and elegant words in his poems, such as "Gui Yuan" and "Gui Xi Ci", and the simple and complacent pastoral life described in them.

But when we grow up and have more contact with society and reality, we will find that the leisurely pastoral life in poetry is actually difficult to establish in contemporary society. Big cities are rich in materials, wonderful life and various desires. Compared with rural areas with superior scenic environment, I'm afraid not many people will choose the latter.

Not to mention that most people have to undertake the necessary things of supporting their parents, maintaining their families and raising their children. In this way, the so-called rural life, when we are young, may be just an idealized fantasy.

As for all kinds of hermits in the history of our country, the fact is that most of them live in seclusion in the mountains because of social unrest or inner disappointment with the darkness of the current situation. Many of them were officials before they lived in seclusion, at least civil servants of the country, and most of them were famous literati, and of course they were not scum of the school. In this way, even seclusion is not easy for most ordinary people.

I brushed Zhihu some time ago and saw a hot topic. The main point is: oppose some mediocre people and use mediocrity as an excuse for mediocrity.

Yes, in this era of rapid development, the competition between people will only become more and more fierce. If you don't advance, you will retreat. It doesn't mean that competition means attacking and suppressing each other. Only good resources, materials and good jobs are limited. Only when your ability and level match it can you have these.

For beautiful things and life, there is probably no one who does not yearn for it, and it is often this that determines the economic foundation of the superstructure.

Therefore, you can see that even though Beishangguang is becoming more and more bloated, housing prices in first-tier cities continue to rise, followed by second-tier cities. Every year, countless young people still have the courage to go to the battlefield and the determination to "never break Loulan".

Some people may say that everyone has their own aspirations and different pursuits. Is it necessary to earn a lot of money to live a satisfactory life? Is the only right thing. Can't we live a quiet and peaceful life in a small city?

Yes, of course, it's not that no one has chosen this way. It's just that you are sure that you really yearn for a dull life, or you choose to give up because of laziness, or you choose to retreat because of frustration.

When a person is old, he no longer needs high-intensity work, does something relaxing, or retires and leads a leisurely and plain life. People will call it enjoying a leisurely life. For young people, the pursuit of comfort is probably never the right argument.

To make matters worse, sometimes what you see is simple and plain, leisurely and carefree, which may be temporary or even dangerous.

Choosing a plain life is your own business, but once you have a family and children, it will extend to many aspects.

Your child was born in an ordinary family. At the moment when the cost of education is increasing, if he wants to get better development in the future, he will have to work harder than a child with a good family, and you can't provide any help. You said that everyone has his own ambition. If he has an ambition in the future, he will certainly face more difficulties than people with good family before reaching it. Although the old saying goes, you have to suffer to be a master, but I'm afraid no one wants to see their children suffer.

And the daily necessities in the long life are trivial. Without the escort of considerable wealth, can we really make ordinary life dull and comfortable forever?

At present, there are only a few categories that are really suitable for choosing an ordinary life, or that are eligible to choose. One is our parents and the elderly. They are limited by their own times, or they are old. If they don't reach a certain wealth, it can be said that it is difficult to change, and it is even more unrealistic for them to struggle like young people. Moreover, they have been busy with their children and their lives for most of their lives. Now, as long as their children can become useful and have a good future, life will not be too tortuous.

There is another kind, probably the kind of person who makes good grades. They have created brilliance and accumulated considerable wealth. Even if they want to retire and rest, their past efforts and achievements can support a comfortable rest.

Of course, if you say that you were born extremely rich and your parents spoil you, you won't be too demanding. Of course there are such people, but they definitely don't belong to the category of most people and ordinary people.

In addition, if you have to live a "dull" life because of a major accident, or natural or man-made disasters, or unbearable setbacks in life, it is misfortune and sorrow, not ordinary.

Survival of the fittest sounds a bit cruel, but rejecting mediocrity is the real advice. And everything we do in our life is a beautiful life, a beautiful life.