Original link: https://mercurychong.blogspot.com/2022/06/blog-post.html
Met a Chinese guy and said, “I like the slow pace of PNG.”
Mercury Bear was a little surprised, after all, it was rare to hear others say they liked the slowness here.
She is Jane, who moved to Dali from busy Beijing.
Jane said that when she first moved to Dali, she was waiting for the renovation of her new home to be completed. She felt that the renovation period of up to two months in Beijing would need at least twice as long in Dali. During the first half of the renovation, she was still very restless, and ran to the construction site every three days, thinking that a reminder would always be quicker.
Not long after, it was the turn of the mason master. This man in his 40s also brought his wife to work, an electric cooker, and a handful of green vegetables. Every day at lunchtime, Jane is in Jane cook at home.
One time Jane suddenly pushed the door and entered, only smelling the aroma of the rice. The couple saw her without any unnatural expressions on their faces. They grinned and greeted Jane warmly, “Come, come and eat with us.” Jane suddenly Thinking that they are very cute, I didn’t know what to say for a while, and quickly said goodbye and left in embarrassment.
The master finally completed the three-day work in twenty days. Later, Jane was not surprised. It turns out that many masters are like this, putting family first. The typical “everything is bigger than family affairs”.
Jane occasionally complained about urging, but they weren’t annoyed. They always said “what’s the hurry?” in a gentle tone without leaving room for it.
After hearing these three words a lot, Jane also asked herself, what’s the hurry? At the beginning, she moved here because she had the conditions for financial independence and wanted to leave Beijing’s fast pace. Now she has no deadline, but she still has the habit of the city. Getting used to fast is the standard, work first, no matter how urgent the family is. Also take time off when work is done.
These values and habits have accumulated over time, and through the approval and compliance of the group, they have grown in every cell of Jane. Even without her original tense and anxious environment, she would still be driven by it for a long time.
Jane thought that a fast-paced life requires adaptation, but in fact, a slow life also requires hard adaptation.
When Jane was in Beijing, she felt that it was normal to take children from early in the morning to work until two or three in the morning, and she felt at ease; but when she moved to Dali, she thought the life of working day and night was absurd.
In the past, Jane would always see the things in front of her as an obstacle preventing her from living a beautiful new life.
She wants to wait until the child goes to kindergarten and wait until the house is renovated. So I kept urging in my heart, hurry up, hurry up and overcome these obstacles, and then you can reach her poems and distance.
However, on the first day she moved into her new home, this falsehood was self-defeating. She thought that she had crossed the barrier of decoration, and a better life was at hand, let’s live it.
But she was sitting in the empty house, and her mind started to plan quickly, um, there needs to be a picture here, and another sofa needs to be added there—
Jane imagined the full home, and a trace of satisfaction rose in her heart. By that time, life would be so beautiful.
Halfway through Sora’s thought, she laughed to herself. She didn’t really need them, she just needed to fill it up quickly.
The old renovation barriers passed, and Jane created new barriers right away. In fact, all these obstacles are part of life.
Turning around, Jane remembered the honest smiling faces and rice cookers of the two husband and wife masters of clay tiles, and every time she went to the decoration site to be immersed in the happiness of longing, she couldn’t help asking herself, is there really nothing good at the moment?
Contentment is always happy, it is easier to know than to do.
Jane’s story reminds Mercury Bear of his own vision of life in retirement.
After retirement, Mercury Bear does not want to be a waste person who sleeps when he is full, but at the same time adding meaning to the ordinary life, he hopes to be like Jane, so that the hostility and endless desire in his heart will not affect the financial independence. Life.
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