I just want to be ordinary

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When I was a child, I was full of pride, I didn't know how difficult the world was, and for the future, I thought that everything was within reach, as long as I wanted to, wasn't it easy? The only thing that limits me may be age.

Finally, I reached the age of my dreams without living the life I wanted. When I was a child, I thought I could do anything: but then I realized that I couldn't do anything. The most painful thing in the world is that the heart is weak. The brain fantasizes about an extraordinary life, an extraordinary life, but I have to live every day.

Countless times in the middle of the night, crying, crying, saying to myself, this is not what I want, my life should not be so ordinary, ordinary to almost mediocre. When I was a child, I wanted to be extraordinary, according to the current interpretation, it is three hundred and sixty lines, and the champion among the champions is the line. But why do you feel that the extraordinary that is within reach is getting farther and farther away, so far that it is almost invisible, and it has dissipated like the wind......

I was very afraid of being a teacher, of being a doctor, of having a regular job. Although it can be fed and clothed, it is no longer ideal. Day after day repeats the same day, and the days become more and more boring and boring day by day. It was very painful for me. But I don't even seem to be qualified to have such a permanent job now. You can't even have such an ordinary life, how dare you ask for extraordinary!

Gradually, compromise with yourself again and again, just get by like this, and go down to mediocrity! On a dark night, after crying, I passed by the balcony, and by chance I glanced at it, one by one, the small bright spots emitted, the soft light from the distant universe experienced I don't know how many times, shot into my pupils, my heart seemed to be baptized, as if standing on the ground to become a Buddha like an epiphany. I was detached from my own heart, and from then on, my outlook on life was the same as before. For I know that the star is not afraid of the darkness of the night, for the darker it is, the brighter it shines.

In times of crisis, there have never been heroes who fell from the sky, only mortals who stood up. Looking back on the history of the motherland, have there ever been fewer natural and man-made disasters? Why can our country live in peace and stand tall in the world? When there is a storm, only petrels fly on the sea; When the pandemic comes, you're the only ones on the front lines. Salute to you, you are the best scenery on earth. You are not heroes of the world, more often than not, you are unknown and unknown. The ordinary is closely related to you. But in times of crisis, it is you who fight like a battlefield and protect us. How can you not be grateful, how can you not admire. Our country is not falling because of you who are ordinary.

I also finally understood that because the world is ordinary, we are even more ordinary. In this ordinary world, two ordinary people meet to form a home, and thousands of ordinary people meet to form a country.

I no longer crave extraordinary, extraordinary feats for those champions to do! I just want to be a teacher, to teach my students what I have learned, what I know, and what I feel, so that they can grow up healthy and strong. I only want to be a doctor, use my professional knowledge to remove their pain, so that they can live in peace; I just want to dedicate myself silently to an ordinary life.

Because of thousands of ordinary you, there are thousands of such ordinary me, and therefore we have this strong, ageless, and ordinary country.

In this life, I only want to be ordinary.

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