Chapter 64 this is the beginning of my story

In "Flawless" starring Demi Moore, the seventy-eight-year-old heroine told the female reporter who came to interview a major event she encountered when she was thirty-eight years old. At this time, the movie is about to end, but the heroine said: "My story really begins!" She was originally an employee of the London Diamond Company. In the conservative 1950s, women seldom came out to work. It was even rarer for her to join the management team. She was always the first to arrive at the company and the last to leave. She also boldly offered her own proposals at meetings where men gathered.But they decided to fire her because she made a very constructive suggestion at a moment when the company was facing a major decision, but they believed that this suggestion should be made by a man, and she almost forgot who she was.On the verge of desperation, she finally decided to try again, this time to cooperate with the old cleaner who was about to retire and steal some diamonds from the company.The two weak men united, but they stole two tons of diamonds overnight, and she left the company because of this.

She finished telling the big story, when the story should have ended, and she said, "This is where my story really begins!" The photo albums in her mind were flipping through, she was traveling the world, she married the people she loved, raised children, and for it all , she filled out one check after another, and figured out one thing by herself: "How long will it take to spend 100 million pounds? It took me forty years." Think of after party in English.The definition in the dictionary is "A party held after another event, esp. a concertor another party" - the party after the party, some people translate it as "after-party party" and "curtain call party", both have the meaning of recession, it seems that it is just The tail is the aftertaste, it is the retention, it is the party that arises out of not being able to bear to leave too early.In fact, after-party parties are where our excitement and love come from.Numerous times, we hold wine glasses, smile on our faces, walk through the crowd stiffly, sometimes shake hands with people, and sometimes talk softly. The seemingly non-existent fairy sounds all give us this kind of hint: everything that happens here must be silent.A soft smile often attracts the attention of the audience, and the owner of the laughter immediately covered his mouth in embarrassment.Sometimes we are taken by the owner to see his swimming pool and barbecue platform, and sometimes we stop in front of a picture, all of which must be silent.Finally, in the crowd, we saw one or two friendly faces, and smiles became our secret words, and "where to go after we're done" was our tacit agreement.

Every night we have a party, we usually have two parties.The first party, which looked like a party, was not really a party to us, and it was even just a place for us to gather.The party after the party is the real party.Because of its existence, everything that was too grand and brilliant before has become an introduction and even a foreshadowing. Most of the pages of "Flawless" are used to describe the theft of diamonds. The real focus is how she started her "sideshow". It took a long time for one of my former female leaders to start her sideshow.She started from the most basic level of finance, checked the accounts once, and had to drive around the county town and the countryside for half a month in a truck with no shelter in the cold winter months. Later, she struggled to a more important position, but in the end because of Involved in personnel struggles and had to retire early, others probably looked at her with gloating thoughts.But she took advantage of the low tide of real estate in Hainan to buy a house there. Since then, she has lived with her family who run a farm there. She goes to the beach every day to catch shrimps and shells. When the carambola in the farm is harvested, the whole family works together. , she summed up her first half of her life like this: "It's all about working hard for unimportant things."

There is also an element of anger, but most of the time, our efforts are often to make wedding dresses for others. The result of our efforts is just "this is the beginning of the story" rather than "this is the beginning of my story". Those things are not wrong Important, but not important to yourself.All our waiting, patience, and restraint in those too serious and grand events, occasions, and time are actually for those moments of leisure, those moments when we can make decisions for ourselves, and those who are willing to develop a tacit understanding and cultivate affectionate honesty. relative moment.It's like asking for a summer night after a long winter, and asking for a wine binge after days of plain water.

Perhaps, long-term patience is the only way in life, but deep down, we still have to leave a small gap for ourselves, and we are always ready to say one day in the future: "This is the real beginning of my story." , Keeping this possibility is like keeping a trump card for victory, or the key to another world. With this certainty, all the patience is really worth it.