Chapter 57 happy life

2000/05/18 Sanlian Life Weekly Many years ago, the neighbor Ergou's family bought a 12-inch black and white TV, and his house was full of guests every night.Later, the TV station played the Hong Kong TV series "Fearless", and there were too many people watching the TV. Ergou's father put the TV in the yard, and the audience reached dozens of people. The people behind couldn't see clearly what the people on the TV were doing. Well. Suddenly one day, a magnifying glass was erected in front of the black and white TV. It is said that the image was 1.5 times larger than before. The audience standing behind said, this is great, and they can see what Huo Yuanjia looks like clearly.

When I was young, I always crowded in the front to watch TV. The front is certainly the front, but not necessarily the front. Therefore, it was inevitable to watch from the side, and the images in the magnifying glass and the inherent images of the TV screen entered or merged into my field of vision alternately. Because Huo Yuanjia's "Mizong Quan" always gives me a very strange visual enjoyment, and the effect is very psychedelic. Today's TV is not a rare thing. A 21-inch color TV only costs about 1,400 yuan. Looking at it this way, our life is really happy.According to this principle, we used to wear blue cloth jackets, but now we have three-button suits, so happy.We used to eat boiled cabbage, but now we can eat beef stew, so happy.We didn't know what a phone was before, but now we can access the Internet, so happy.This principle is not difficult to understand, but I recalled the black and white TV and magnifying glass back then, and realized another truth, that is, adding a magnifying glass to a 12-inch black and white TV is by no means equal to a 21-inch TV.

Many years later, when I was renting a car in Beijing (we used to ride a car and now we are so happy to take a taxi), I heard an advertisement. The man in the advertisement invited a woman to go skiing. The woman asked, are you going to Europe, and the man said, no Instead, go to Xiangshan Park in Europe.Then he said that the dryland skiing in Xiangshan Park is not inferior to that in Europe. I haven't seen what downhill skiing is like, but I've seen so-called indoor golf courses, and that course advertises what an amazing place it is, but I always feel like standing there is like standing on a magnified pool table .I know real golf courses are not like this.In the same way, I know that European skiing cannot be replaced by dryland skiing in Xiangshan Park, or even in Yabuli Ski Resort.

Of course, I don’t mean to say that only going to a real golf course and going skiing in Europe is the true happiness, but going to play indoor golf twice and experience dryland skiing is not happy.What I mean is that some things are irreplaceable. If you watch a 21-inch color TV, you will never replace it with a 12-inch TV and a magnifying glass. I think those who watched TV with a 12-inch magnifying glass would also feel happy, compared to being unable to watch or clearly see TV.However, do we now observe our own happiness through a magnifying glass?How much of the happiness we try to feel is a substitute, how much is superficial, how much is desolate?