Chapter 10 Mediocrity is painful
After that meeting, the butterfly became much calmer, as if she didn't yearn for him so much, could it be because she really saw him, but it made her retreat? Or because the originally hot feelings of meeting were drenched in rain, and after being moisturized, that* was extinguished? Or, is there too much gap between him in the real world and him in her imaginary world, and the huge gap makes the illusion quickly shattered, followed by disappointment? In short, in the days that followed, the butterfly became pure and had few desires and didn't want anything.
Butterfly took some work, life was busy, interviews, manuscripts, revisions, and there was little time and space to think about anything. After a long list of things are done, the weather is already hot, and the taste of early summer is gradually emerging.
The life of the diving bird is basically in a stable period, as if the bad luck is gradually leaving. The work is going well, and going well means that it is neither good nor bad. The company sells houses, and his job is to polish and add fuel to the houses that are about to be sold or are being sold.
Let the person who buys the house feel that he has picked up a treasure, or covered a golden egg, and in the first half of the year or a year, the house in his hand can grow with double the profit. Of course, it's imperative that you get the house before anyone else does, and that's your chance to make a fortune!
The work of copywriters is no less than that of salespeople who stand in bright sales halls and wear straight suits, they have to use their brains and all the information they can collect, and even do not hesitate to draw the blueprint of the city in 20 years in front of buyers, although no one knows what will happen in 10 years.
Some developers will also put up a sign in the area where the rail transit will not be built until N years from now, so that those who come to see the house will believe that this is a fact, and that it is a fact that is close at hand. Some developers have promised "waterfront homes", but after many years of living in them, they are surrounded by a dirty, smelly river.
Some of these urban plans come from casual jokes from government officials, and some from news that catches the wind, whether true or false, all of them are accepted facts, put on official paper, and written on the advertising slogans of the building books in a high-sounding manner. Of course, those who believe are responsible, because that's the rules of the game.
Although the diving birds know that these copies are basically "full of nonsense", no one cares about this kind of fraud, all they need to do is make the desert appear spectacular enough mirage, and the more spectacular the better, the more real the better.
It is said that in this market, a real copywriter can turn a pile of garbage into a pile of gold for everyone to snap up, and then the developer will happily count the money in the back. You must know that everyone knows that words are absolutely untrustworthy things, even the words paid at the back of the contract are playing a "game of paying for the dead", but everyone still believes in words so much, carefully read the building book, look at every line of words on it, and look at the illusory and beautiful phantom above.
Although the diving bird is disdainful of this kind of work, for the sake of money, sometimes the conscience needs to be temporarily isolated for a while, let it go to the Caribbean for a vacation! God, for the sake of money, as long as I can make brilliant words, no matter how many people are fooled, it has nothing to do with me.
At first, the diving bird was not fully adapted to this kind of work, probably his conscience was not completely extinguished, and he always felt that it was not good to write something too outrageous and nonsense, but then he was completely numb, because he liked those magnificent sentences, as long as they could attract attention, no matter how fanciful it was.
After a few rounds, the diving bird gradually began to get more comfortable. He is happy in his heart, every time a copy is approved by the above, it means that the next period of time can be spent with peace of mind and comfort. Chatting online, drinking tea, and spending time are the happiest things. After work, he would go to the supermarket or the store or something, and buy something he needed and liked.
Now he buys some good meat from the supermarket and cooks delicious meals at home. For a while, when he was strapped for cash, he didn't even look at the supermarket, and he didn't dare to think about meat.
At the moment, the global economy is in a downturn, and the company does not have a lot of existing properties, so the work of diving birds is quite leisurely. What started out as a pleasure gradually turned into a kind of torture. When you go to work every day and turn on the computer and don't know what you're going to do today, it's really scary.
He wasn't the only copywriter in the whole office, there were two other ones, they were also buried in front of the computer every day, and to be honest, he didn't know what they were doing at all? How do they spend their long day at work? Every time I talk to them, they always suddenly raise their confused eyes, as if they have just woken up from a busy pile of work, which makes the diving birds full of uneasiness. Because this place is also full of competition and fighting.
In order not to be noticed that he was idle, he also kept himself as busy as possible, and whenever someone walked past him, his computer screen always showed an open document being revised. Sometimes the other two copywriters went back to the office after going to the bathroom, walked past him, and occasionally struck up a conversation, sneaking two glances at him, and then looking at him suspiciously, as if they were guessing something.
The diving birds were very generous to show them because they were all doing different cases with each other, and they wouldn't know that this was the same copy from two months ago. They thought he was actually working on a new copy. In fact, this group of subsidiaries does not even have a project, and even the boss himself does not know when the next project will start. Not only the copywriting department, but also the work of the marketing department and the sales department came to a standstill, and the whole company began to be confused with an invisible idle and dull atmosphere.
Everyone seemed a little listless, not as busy and fiery as before. Everyone avoids contact with others in order to avoid being noticed by others, and deliberately avoids talking about work during conversations, and only those close colleagues will talk about it in the toilet or during meals. The main topic of discussion was that the company was about to start laying off employees.
The news made the diving birds panic. Because he had just said goodbye to poverty. He had just made up his rent for the next three months, and he wanted to reconfigure his computer, because it was terrible. He also wanted to buy himself a few new clothes, because some of the clothes he wore last summer were broken, some of the collars were broken, and everyone here was bright and shiny, and if he didn't wear them better, he would be laughed at by his colleagues. Lying in bed at night and thinking about it, I realized that there are so many things I need to buy, which one doesn't need money? The more I think about it, the more I realize how important this work is to me!
Since then, every time the boss or boss comes to the office, everyone is like a frightened bird, and they don't even dare to breathe, as if they are here to censor to determine who will be executed next?
The diving bird panicked for a while, and really felt that the whole person was going to collapse if this continued, so he decided to go to the temple on the weekend to make incense.
There is a small temple near the company, which was told by the secretary. He decided to go for a walk, even if it was to seek some spiritual comfort, and besides, he had nothing to do anyway.
This is the charm of religion. When a person feels completely hopeless, it is natural to think of God. When a city or country is faced with a disaster that is beyond the limits of human resilience, the president will lead the nation to say, "God bless!"
This is not a negative manifestation, but the last vestige of belief when a person is on the verge of despair. Sometimes, it is this belief that saves humanity.
In the past thousands of years, many things have changed in the world's culture, and the only thing that has not changed is religion? His place in the hearts of men has not only remained unshaken, but has become more and more sacred and clear. Science is not about purging religion, but about consolidating the theoretical foundation of religion from another dimension. Science and religion are like twin brothers, and people only know religion but do not know science in the early stage of ignorance. As human beings come out of ignorance, they begin to realize that there are many things to be faced scientifically. But if human beings continue to develop, they will increasingly find that the two are so fluid* that they cannot have a clear understanding of the world and the universe without either of them.