On the campus of Fudan University, two young people are walking side by side in the shade of a tree.

"Frost, do you think this drama is good?" The guy asked another girl.

The girl replied: "To be honest, I don't understand what this drama is talking about at all, hehe." Do you get it? ”

"I didn't understand it either. "Waiting for Godot", everyone is waiting for Godot, but what is this Godot exactly? Why wait for him? Why did you repeat what you had done the day before when you waited for him? Why do you have nothing to do, nothing to say, and do something meaningless? There are a lot of questions, but no one seems to know the answers. ”

"Actually, I don't know the characters who appeared."

The boy said, "Yes." That's the essence of this play. Typical nihilism. In other words, what this play reveals is the general state of life of modern people. Everyone wants to live a meaningful life, but the result is to live an absurd and meaningless life day in and day out. Everyone hopes for the future, but they have no idea what the future will be. The theme of the play is not Godot, but waiting. Waiting means not being able to live in the moment, and it means always being in samsara. It is not easy to be able to achieve 'the sun and the moon'. In short, from beginning to end it is unreasonable and meaningless. ”

"This probably has something to do with the environment the playwright was in at the time."

"Yes. The development of modern society and the development of the material world have left people's souls far behind. The evils and disasters of society, the erosion of human personality and individuality, have put people in a deformed situation. They wait for tomorrow and hope for a better tomorrow. But they didn't do much. Today I am still repeating what I did yesterday, watching things go in a bad direction step by step, but I can't do anything about it. In this case, whether Godot is God, a saint, a father, or whatever, he will not come. Those who await Godot can only be born in nothingness and die in nothingness. The more sincere and persistent this wait is, the more it is filled with black humor. They do not mock life, they can only be mocked by it. ”

"You've said it so well! I didn't see that much in it. ”

"Hahaha. Because I did a lot of homework before watching the play. ”

"It's also good to do your homework ahead of time. It's not like I'm ignorant, I don't understand anything. The girl said, "I think those foreign students are doing very well." ”

The boy nodded in agreement: "Not only are the acting skills good, but I think they know the essence of this play." It's a pity that most of our Chinese students are not very familiar with the background of this drama, so they are basically confused. ”

"Uh-huh." The girl said, "Yes, this kind of avant-garde art is indeed too rare in China, in fact, think about it, there are still many such avant-garde art forms in ancient China, but in modern times, there are fewer and fewer such forms, and there are more and more works of realism and pragmatism." ”

The two men walked to the end of the road, then turned back and walked the road again. It's like a few characters in the play "Waiting for Godot" that repeat the past.

There are many students coming and going on the boulevard, most of them carrying school bags or books. Obviously, I just had a late self-study, and I either want to go back to the dormitory to rest, or I want to go to rest outside the school.

Most of the students may be confused, but they are by no means depressed. Even if there are occasional worries, they are often fleeting like "teenagers don't know the taste of sorrow". Youth is enthusiastic and unrestrained, which has nothing to do with people's character, but with people's mental state. Without the pressure of the college entrance examination and the pressure of work, college students are in the most comfortable stage of their lives at this time.

They have an incomparably open mind, they have incomparably hot emotions, and they have an incomparably innocent youth.

The two students strolling along the boulevard were Ankang and his cousin Lin Mushuang.

After listening to what Lin Mushuang said, Ankang said: "The reason why there is less and less avant-garde art in China may be related to social development and economic development. Isn't there a saying called 'full of warm thoughts'? If you don't even have a solution to the problem of food and clothing, you won't have the energy to pursue art and spirit. So I think the expression 'material is the foundation, and spirit is the superstructure' is very good. ”

Lin Mushuang said: "I don't agree. What about Su Dongpo? ”

"Hahaha. I guess you're going to say Su Dongpo. He is different from ordinary people, he has become detached. Just like Wang Yangming, in the face of adversity, he inspires the brilliance of thought. Among these people, the representative figures are Lao Tzu, a master librarian in the world, and Guiguzi, a master in the countryside. They are even less able to understand by ordinary people's standards. Most people are unable to attain the achievements of these saints, so they can only go with the flow, solving material problems first, and then ascending to the spiritual realm. ”

"Hmm." Lin Mushuang nodded in agreement.

"You're a great example of that."

Lin Mushuang asked, "Why am I a good example?" ”

Ankang said: "It is precisely because of your family's relatively good economic conditions that you can devote yourself to studying art and design, and you are not worried about the college entrance examination, which is the only way for a carp to jump over the dragon gate." ”

Lin Mushuang retorted: "It's not right for you to say that. Many people who study art do not have good family conditions. ”

"But have you ever noticed that those people whose family situation is not very good, although they study art very well, but when they go to university, they take a major that has nothing to do with the art they are studying, or even a major that they don't like at all? Like you, Zhu Xue is the only one who has been admitted to Tongji University's architectural design major. ”

Lin Mushuang nodded and said, "Haha." Zhu Xue is an alternative, different from ordinary people. The moon is beautiful, but people are more likely to pursue sixpence. Right? Whether it is to enter the Academy of Fine Arts, or to take the examination of architectural design and industrial design, the future prospects are far less promising than those of engineering and economic management. ”

An Kang smiled: "What you mean is that people like me who study economic management are going with the flow." ”

"Hahaha. You're not like anyone else. Whether it's the moon or sixpence, you're qualified to pursue it. You are fully qualified to study other majors, but you did not choose this major because you are more interested in economic management. Many others simply don't have a choice. ”

Ankang said: "You are very right. Many of us in my class didn't have any interest in economics at all. The funny thing is that accounting, which is a basic course, has a midterm exam in which half of the students fail. ”

"That's because your Fudan University exams are too strict."

"Strict is strict, but all the content of the test is taught by the teacher. Even if you don't get a high score, you should have no problem passing. ”

Before they knew it, the two walked near the school gate.

Lin Mushuang stopped, but her eyes glanced at a flower bed that led to a path.

Ankang glanced at the flowerbed and said, "Shall we go over there and sit?" ”

"Hmm." Lin Mushuang nodded.

The two walked to the back of the flower bed and saw that there were no pedestrians around, so they naturally hugged each other and separated for a long time.

Lin Mushuang said to Ankang: "When we go home this week, we will tell our parents about the matter between us." ”

"Hmm." An Kang nodded.