Living in the prison house Zhang Baotong 2016.4.8

People who love vanity and face often set some insurmountable thresholds for themselves, thus trapping themselves in a gloomy hut from which they cannot be extricated, suffering from humiliation.

I'm going to talk about a colleague of mine when I used to teach in middle school. She is a female teacher in the PE section of our school, 523 years old. She is humane and good, but she loves vanity and nagging, and always likes to talk about some self-dazzling things. There's a story she's told to us many times. That is, she used to be very beautiful, with a good figure, small and exquisite, and was the popular school flower of the gymnastics department of Shanghai University of Sport. Originally, her life may be very beautiful and beautiful. However, there was one person who changed her fate.

This person is a female classmate in the same class, serving as the secretary of the Youth League branch in the class, she is five big and three thick, her face is full of freckles, and almost no male classmates like her. Therefore, the secretary of the League was very jealous of her. Once, when the classmates were in a meeting together, the secretary of the Youth League farted a fart, and someone smelled the smell and asked who was farting. As a result, she said that it was released by the group branch book. For this reason, at the beginning of the Anti-Rightist Movement, a sentence from the Youth League branch secretary classified her as a **** and sent her to the Hanzhong area of Shaanxi Province for labor reform.

We just listened to her about these things, and no one went to verify what was going on. However, she said that her lover is a famous painter in Shaanxi Province, which is true. Because among the famous paintings I edited from the pictorial, there are several large murals painted by her lover for the capital airport. In fact, her lover is not only a famous painter in Shaanxi Province, but also famous in the whole country. About her marriage to her lover, it is also a topic that she relishes.

She said that his lover was originally a farmer's child in Hanzhong, with a mediocre appearance and not good at talking, because of his diligence and hard work, he was admitted to the Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts, but at that time the Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts was only a junior college. Therefore, at that time, she was able to marry him, which was really condescending and helpless. Later, both of them were transferred from Hanzhong to Xi'an, and their lover taught at the Academy of Fine Arts, and she worked as a teacher in our school. However, decades have passed, and her lover has become a well-known painter at home and abroad, and she is still a middle school teacher. So, most of the stories she told us later were about her lover.

Listening to her story, we all envy her and feel that she is really visionary and blessed. However, soon after she retired, she heard that her lover was divorcing her. Moreover, her lover has already fallen in love with a female graduate student who studied painting with him. The female graduate student was only twenty-seven or eighteen years old, and she was not only beautiful, but also very talented. This made our teacher almost crazy, she felt that she had given him her whole youth and life, and now that he was famous, he was going to divorce her. Therefore, when she saw people, she said that she wanted her lover's colleagues and leaders to give her a reason, because they lived in the family area of the Academy of Fine Arts. She occasionally came to our school, and as soon as she came to the school, she told us all that his lover was Chen Shimei, and she cried so much as she talked. Someone persuaded her, "Forget it, since he is Chen Shimei, what do you want him to do?" You don't have no job, you have to support him. However, she said that she was unwilling, he was still a poor bastard with no name and no place when he was with her, and now that he has everything, he thinks she is old, not beautiful, and has no way.

Because she insisted on not leaving, the court mediation was ineffective. The lover went out of the house and rented a house next to the painting academy to live openly with the female graduate student. At this time, when she came to school again, everyone persuaded her, forget it, everyone lives together, what are you still tossing? However, she still said that she was unwilling, and felt that if he was not famous and had no position, she would not care, but he is now a famous artist at home and abroad, and this honor should be enjoyed by her. So it's still alive and dead. In the end, the two separated for more than two years, tossed for more than two years, his lover filed for divorce again, and the court forcibly made a judgment.

After the divorce, she almost went crazy, feeling that she was a failure and miserable, and she had no face to see. So, I returned to my hometown in Shanghai. One day, she meets an old classmate from college who is now the owner of a large company. The old classmate mentioned that she had been chasing her at school in the past. Then, I asked her how she was doing. Before she could speak, she began to cry. The old classmate was so happy when he heard that she was divorced, and immediately took her to his villa in a car, and said that his wife had been dead for several years and had never found a suitable person, and then proposed to her.

They soon got married, and the two were in harmony, loving and loving, holding hands everywhere they went, as if they had endless words all day long. Later, she came to our school with her old classmate, her now husband, and we witnessed their love. They are as intimate as they are in love. She told us that she had never lived so happily and happily as she did now.

Yes, there are many things in life that make it difficult for us to let go, but if these things become the fetters that bind our lives and become the prison cells that plague our moods, we should bravely step out of this threshold and enter a new world.