Chapter 161: Secular affairs
A life without change is a stagnant pool, and over time, a person's mental state will become numb and depressed.
A life that is too varied may not be a good thing. If you are entangled in the troubles of the world, you will lose yourself unknowingly.
Life needs meaning, value, and recognition.
Just as the famous saying by Paul Kotchakin, the protagonist of "How Steel Is Made".
The most precious thing for a person is life, and everyone's life is only once. A person's life should be spent like this: when he looks back on the past, he does not regret wasting his years, nor is he ashamed of his past mediocrity. In this way, when he is dying, he can say: "My whole life and all energy have first given the most magnificent cause in the world - to fight for the liberation of mankind."
Perhaps we do not have a lofty ideal as Paul, but different lives determine different values. Ordinary choices can also create ordinary greatness, just like ordinary workers who build bridges and roads. Without them, how can we have our modern and well-connected transportation network, just like cleaners, without them, how can we have our neat and glamorous city... There are countless in all walks of life, and this is ordinary greatness.
Chen An's life is neither ordinary nor great.
When he learned the truth, he realized that he was just a pathetic puppet.
There is no freedom, no value, no meaning.
Such a life is purely for achieving the mysterious material in the mind.
Just as the character you have been controlling in the game suddenly had his own thoughts one day, what would this character think of? It will find that the meaning of my existence is just to satisfy the spiritual satisfaction of the game controller, to fight and kill continuously for gold coins, level, and equipment. Is this life the life it wants?
Now Chen An is the same as the supposed game characters. They don’t agree that this is the life they want. Since they don’t agree, there will inevitably be resistance. The problem is that he can’t even commit suicide now. How easy is it to resist? Even his thoughts and thoughts are clear.
If you become stronger, only by constantly becoming stronger can you have the capital to resist.
This is the only answer that Chen An got.
After having the ultimate physical fitness of human beings, Chen An inevitably developed a fearless and inflated mentality. Now he thinks it is ridiculous. This strength alone is probably a third-rate product in the real martial arts world. What if it is placed in the future science fiction and fairy tale world? In front of the state machinery of modern society, he was cautiously like a mouse in the gutter, and he would never dare to be exposed to others. This alone made him realize his insignificance.
In the real world, Chen An still prepares for civil servant interview step by step. Life must continue. He is clear about the importance and will not let his bad emotions affect his normal life, otherwise it will only cause unnecessary trouble to his family and friends around him.
Although parents who are together day and night will inevitably notice his strangeness, they can easily gain their understanding by evading the pressure of interviews. Think about it, they were not the same when the college entrance examination was taken back. The closer they were to the college entrance examination, the more taciturn they became, when the college entrance examination was over, the pressure was completely released, and people seemed to have changed.
Although Chen An is lawless in killing in another world, he is no different from ordinary people in the real world. He should eat, drink, and play. While he was on Labor Day vacation, he also took his parents to Qiongdao for a trip.
Time passed quietly. With the successful interview of civil servants and successfully passing the physical examination and political review, Chen An, who entered the training stage, basically stabilized his life in the real world. Even his mother began to frequently introduce whoever daughter, and Chen An was quite amused and crying.
Whenever I saw Alex's sketch portrait framed in front of the bed, Chen An felt a lot of emotions.
From the perspective of men and women's relationship, he felt guilty about Alex.
No matter how many excuses he made, he would not cleanse his stain on the issue of men and women.
Meeting is fate, but fate tricks you, and this relationship is destined to end in vain.
After all, no one knows whether he can survive in the future or return to her world, and whether he can let go of his parents in the real world, like a husband caught between a conflict between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, it is hard to describe it.
"I said you should get a girlfriend to get married, right?"
Xiaobao kneaded melon seeds on the dining table and said something intentionally or unintentionally.
"You even come to persuade me to get married?"
After hearing that Chen An passed the civil service exam as he wished, Xiao Bao took the initiative to call to congratulate him and "blame" Chen An for a celebration dinner.
"What? Do you want to be single for the rest of your life? Or do you have not forgotten Lin Hui?" Xiao Bao spit out the melon seed skin, pulled out a cigarette and started smoking leisurely. "Actually, it's okay if you don't get married now, which saves a lot of troubles from getting married. Look, I now have to hide in the balcony and toilet when smoking at home. Isn't the hard work that comes and goes in the wind and rain every day just to earn money for the child's milk powder? As a result, my wife still complains about this and that all day long. Do you think it's easy for me?"
"This is the end of greed for a moment of pleasure!" Chen An quipped and joked.
"Oh... Anyway, my brother has been trapped in this life. As a lesson from the past, I have never thought clearly that I should be very cautious before getting married..." Xiao Bao shook his head and sighed.
"I said, do you married men like to talk about these topics?" Chen An said.
"What can I do? I'll bother my family every day, and I feel uncomfortable if I don't say it out!" Xiao Bao said. "If I were a single person, I was carefree and had no worries, and I would do whatever I wanted, but now as long as I go back late, I can guarantee that there will be countless phone messages urging you to go home right away."
"I think you are having fun in suffering. I, an unmarried person, cannot understand your current mood." Chen An said.
"My wife has a few sisters, but it's good. If you don't have time, you can't come out to see if it's appropriate to get together?" Xiao Bao glanced at Chen An and said, "It's rare to have a free meal for you. Don't blame the unrighteousness of being a brother!"
"I said you are righteous and not pushing me into the fire pit?" Chen An said with a smile.
"Be serious, talk about serious things." Xiao Bao said with a serious face. "My wife has a sister who is really good. She has fair skin, beautiful and long legs. She graduated from a prestigious university. She is now a teacher at the local Key No. 1 Middle School. I heard that many people are chasing her..."
"It's okay to meet, but you have to wait until I finish the training." Chen An thought for a moment.
Chapter completed!