Chapter 19: Selling Yourself
The demon came to the world, took the form of a human being, stood on the crowded street, and pulled out a banner: "500,000 to buy the last 10 years of your life." "People started gathering and whispering. They thought that if they could live to be 100 years old, the last 10 years were estimated to be old and weak, and the symptoms were present, maybe it would be good to sell them for 10 years; If you can live to be 90 years old, your body may not be so strong, maybe 80 years old is acceptable; If you live at 80 years old, it seems a bit of a loss to sell it for 10 years...... Someone said: "Experts give a research result, saying that the average life expectancy in China is 76 years old, let's calculate it according to 76, sell it for ten years is 66 years old, retire at 65 years old, and hang up in a year." Another person said: "You can retire 10 years early, but it's only 50,000 a year, and it's a bit less, can you give more?" Give me more and I'll sell it. "There was a heated discussion, but no one was making a deal.
At this time, a middle-aged man walked up to the demon and asked, "I am 50 years old, my son is getting married and wants to buy a house, I have no money...... How much can I give if I sell it for 15 years?" The surroundings quieted down, and the demon looked at him and said, "It's all 5w a year, but since you're the first to trade, I can give you a discount, 15 years for a total of 120w, the top twenty all enjoy this price, and after twenty, it's all 5w a year!" The middle-aged man thought for a while, as if he had made up his mind, "Sell!" The demon made a registration and handed him 120w in cash, and he left without saying a word, and people made way for him. Suddenly, someone shouted, "I'll sell it for 10 years!" "Everyone saw that it was a middle-aged woman, with short hair, dark skin, and plain clothes, although it was not a famous brand, it was very clean and decent. The demon didn't say anything to make a good record, and handed over the 80w cash to the woman. "We sell each for 15 years!" The crowd was silent, and three students in school uniforms squeezed through the crowd, and the demons made records separately, and each received 120w...... At some point, the scene became uncontrollable, and people began to sell their lives one after another. After 20, a chubby middle-aged man with a simple appearance began to bargain with the devil, and after difficult negotiations, the demon finally succumbed, and it was still the twilight years of buying people at a price of 8w a year, but a total of 200 were accepted, and after 200, it was no longer accepted. So the scene became hot again......
As night falls, the faces of those who sold their lives are joyful, and those who hesitate to get their places are stunned, and the devil returns with a full load of time for the acquisition. The devil said, those who are about to lose their breath, the price of buying time ranges from 20W to 50W, the more you buy, the more expensive the price, in fact, time is in short supply, let's go to all parts of the world to sell today's share, everyone agreed, and the person who answered was clearly a middle-aged man who claimed to be 50 years old to buy a house, a well-dressed woman, three children who looked like high school students, and a simple middle-aged fat man who bargained......
"The time of life, if you can overdraft in exchange for money, then in this world, everyone will die in the prime of life!" - Fox Quotes.
What worries me the most is the limitations of my own thinking and not knowing what I can do. The price of selling radish ginseng, although there is a suspicion of deception, but the result is good, after all, it seems to be of high value. But if it's obviously ginseng, and finally sells the radish price, it's a very aggrieved thing. The dilemma caused by the limitations of my mind is that I don't know if I'm a radish or a ginseng, and besides, now that someone has offered a price for a turnip, do I sell it or not? If you keep hesitating, you may not even be able to sell the price of turnips.
There are so many essences of this world, it depends on which way you look at it. Looking at the past from a tricky angle, I saw that the essence of the world is a transaction, selling yourself to get the price that the world gives you. Everyone in the world has to eat, drink, and Lazar, but not everyone in the world has no worries about food and clothing, and paying attention to absolute fairness is unfair to those who have outstanding talents, they put their talents at a very high price and sell them, so they are rich and noble, and I only focus on the sacred word "fairness", selling my own humble and pitiful, short-sighted, and the world does not pay, so I am humble and pitiful.
At first, I didn't want to sell myself. The teacher said that the timber of the pillars can be built into a house, but the bent and thin branches can only be reduced to firewood and burned into ashes, so everyone should be inspired to be a pillar. As a plant, can't you choose to live well? Later, when I read the sentence "Straight wood is cut first, Ganjing is exhausted first", I felt particularly self-pitying. When I talk to my colleagues, I always tell them that I want to be alone rather than sell myself to others. They all interpreted me as lazy and lazy, sitting back and enjoying what I did, and not enough to accomplish things...... More than once, as long as there are some different streams of thought, they will always be misunderstood, perhaps because they prefer to use a simple and crude way to strengthen their opinions and beliefs, and are unwilling to think differently. If I become a tree, I don't want to be a pillar and firewood, I only want to grow at will, I always believe that my value can always be reflected in some lifeless way. I would like to be a fruit tree, trying to absorb nutrients, bear fruit, and have fruit for people to pick, but not to abuse the trunk and branches.
Let's say another word that may have some negative energy, maybe there is infinite positive energy in it: we play a variety of roles in the society, and we are contributing to the progress of the society, but for individuals, this professional position may not be able to play your own true value, just like my metaphor, you can produce value as a radish, you only make an ordinary radish in your life, and your contribution to the society is also there, but it is not used to the fullest, the sadness of this, anyone who thinks about it knows. This kind of waste, no one cares about it except yourself. The stone with a gold content of 80 was used as a stone for building walls, and it has not been found for tens of thousands of years, and it has at least the same reputation as all wall bricks. However, if it is refined into gold, will it be worth more......
I'm a stubborn rock, I don't know how much gold I have, I'm trying to make a brick for the time being, I still have expectations for my future, I want to sell my abilities in the way I accept, not just to be a tens of thousands of a wall......