Chapter 15 Chapter 14: Charcoal and Flowers

Do you like giving charcoal in a timely manner?Or do you like the icing on the cake? This is a question about the philosophy of human life.Please note that you are not asked to choose between the two, but which one you prefer.Do you add a handful of firewood when others are proud, or extend a hand when others are in danger? People who like to send charcoal in the snow should be more pessimistic, always thinking of the hardships of life in front.On the contrary, those who like icing on the cake are willing to regard life as a colorful journey. I am having a hard time answering this question.I also like the feeling of icing on the cake, as if all the good things have taken up the joy, but with my always cautious attitude towards life, I always secretly believe in the truth that too much is too much, and that extreme joy begets sorrow, and I always think that there is something wrong with me. Once you have a beautiful piece of brocade, you should cherish it. If you insist on adding a lot of lace, lace and wrinkled beads to it, you will probably create a piece of rubbish that is gorgeous but worthless.

So, although I also like the feeling of icing on the cake, after thinking about it, it seems that I still do more things to give charcoal in the snow. Take our play as an example. At the beginning of the year, I should have gone all out to release an album, but because I couldn't resist the temptation of the stage, I took over this play.At that time, when our drama encountered the embarrassing period of the Spring Festival, it was popular but not popular. Although the audience was often full, the buying of tickets was actually very bad.Many friends came to persuade me not to act, it was too hard.Facing the audience who came in with free tickets for most of the halftime every day, I was really unbalanced.

After that episode, my voice was hoarse for almost a month. When I just recovered, the producer came to see me and said that the previous performance was not well received and the cost had not yet been recovered. I wanted to perform another round, and try the spring one. Whether the weather can bring good popularity, I also want to see whether the previous wave of weather is unfavorable from time to time, or this drama can only go so far. In fact, at that time, I really should have refused. There were still four songs missing in the album, and my voice would definitely be hoarse at the beginning of the performance.

However, seeing the eager expression of the producer, my energy to help when the need arises. "Okay, act!" I said. As a result, this time the charcoal was delivered well, and a beautiful brocade was delivered.We created a box office miracle in this round of performances. The nine performances were sold out, and it was hard to find a ticket. Before entering the theater every day, we would see many people holding stacks of money and asking, "Do you have any spare tickets?" Even 180 tickets are still in demand when they are called to 400 by the ticket dealer at the door.The director was in such a good mood that he ran to the door to chat with the ticket dealer. The ticket dealer blatantly said that he had made a lot of money in the past few days, and then blatantly suggested that we perform another round.

"With such high popularity, it's a pity not to make persistent efforts for another round." The producer came to lobby me again like a ticket dealer.Eagerness is more urgent.He told me that now the cost has been recovered, and there is still a small profit. Every day, there are still audiences who go back disappointed because they can’t buy tickets. I don't think so.I thought that it might be because of the limited number of shows that there is such a popular box office result. If you keep performing and acting until no one buys tickets, then there is no regret left, but it is really not a big deal. The perfect ending makes people feel inexplicably powerless just thinking about it.In addition, it is true that the subsequent work is almost full, so I said very hard, even I was not willing to part with it: "The performance is like this, let's accept it..."

At the last curtain call, I burst into tears.All the joys, sorrows, tensions, satisfactions, challenges that this play brings Both war and honor are on my mind.Seeing the same tears in the audience, I had mixed feelings.I will really miss this stage very much, but I don’t regret the decision not to add another icing on the cake, otherwise, at this moment, how could I be so moved? This is how I am.Always doing things to give charcoal in the snow, every time I want to add something to the cake, I will weigh it over and over again.Just like this article, if there is a humorous or sublimated and sensational ending, it will definitely be the icing on the cake, but I pondered it over and over again, and decided to accept it as soon as it was good, and it ended abruptly in the last paragraph. Didn't you see it?