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△ 311｜Three Wishes
Recently, I was chatting with a group of new friends from the inner womb to outer space, and talking about a lot of “old people and old things” , it is inevitable that after “cooling down”, they will re-reflect on themselves. I have been pursuing an extraordinary life in a sense, because I am afraid that I will be mediocre because of being too ordinary.
I was reading “Who is a Superhero” from another blogger before, and there was an inspiration that I originally planned to follow – after I was 30 years old, I suddenly began to become contradictory, and I had completely opposite emotions about “ordinary”. I can accept my “ordinary”, but I want to have an “unordinary” experience. Of course, I know that everyone’s experience is an “extraordinary” to others, so when I tell the old things that I take for granted, the evaluation I get from others is actually “extraordinary”, because They have never experienced each other’s life, so of course they feel special and interesting.
Of course, all this has to be built on a relationship of reciprocity and mutual respect. If I were chatting about each other’s life experiences with someone who didn’t have anyone else in their eyes, he wouldn’t think I was “uncommon”, because he had to use other people’s “ordinary” to prove his “unordinary”.
When I was young, children always liked to play a game called “If there are three wishes”. I don’t know exactly where it ultimately originated, although I know Aladdin’s magic lamp, but it is not a work of the general public after all. On the contrary, “Doraemon” is famous, so children will also play a homogeneous game, and select three “most needed” things from Doraemon’s pocket.
The Japanese society recently conducted a survey on two groups of children and adults, and asked these two different groups to choose their favorite “Doraemon props”. The result is similar to an article I wrote before. There is a big difference. I always think that adults should choose the “time machine”, but what I didn’t expect is that the first option, whether adults or children, is “any door”. And there is no “time machine” option at the back. The most favorite “Doraemon props” for adults are: any door, if the phone booth, memory bread, life again machine, dictator button.
At this time, we will suddenly realize that the props that adults want to get are really because we want to change our lives through manipulation. Five props: changing space, changing the “if” that we regret, and being able to Start over, achieve dictatorship by means of acquiring knowledge without effort.
——《∞》1032 | The world of adults
When children play “Three Wishes”, in addition to money, food that can’t be eaten, and toys that can’t be finished. I remember when I was asked this question as a child, my main concern was, “Do these three wishes have a time limit and must be said in the moment?” This answer made me an outlier, and I only cared about these three wishes if there were any. If there is a time limit, it should not be said at the moment. If possible, my first wish is “let me realize the remaining two wishes at a certain node in the future” .
I have used myself as a sample to study this topic, am I someone who understands “delayed gratification”? Going back to my family of origin, this kind of “delayed gratification” itself is the way I have been educated since I was a child, especially when I achieve my goals but don’t get the agreed rewards, I automatically minimize my expectations in the future, so much so that I The rewards for my promises will also be completely suppressed – even if I reward myself as planned since I was a child, I end up being scolded in the face without explanation, thinking that I am spending money indiscriminately.
I used to play a writing game with myself, that is, random “three wishes”, what kind of life will the protagonist in the story experience. Obviously, my dystopian, satirical, pessimistic, magical realist brain has no good words to say. Just like Nobita Nobita every time he gets the props provided by Doraemon, he will definitely screw things up, he can’t have everything going smoothly, otherwise it will neither become a story nor lose its own philosophy.
I remember one time, three random wishes were: freedom, immortality, and feeling no grief. When I saw these three random wishes, the first image I constructed in my mind was the last human being in the world, who no longer had any human beings who could talk to him and exchange ideas. There are two choices in front of him, one is that he continues to live as the last human symbol, but here he can only feel the loneliness, but not the sadness brought by loneliness; the other is that he lives in the way of animals He is no longer alone among the animals that have retaken the city, but he has lost his human attributes, and of course he still feels no grief – in fact, the outcome of both options is the same.
There is also an interesting cartoon where Aladdin asks a dog for a wish when he emerges from a magic lamp. The dog said his first wish, which was a red ball; the second wish he still asked for a red ball; before the third wish, Aladdin warned the dog that you now have the last wish left Yes – the dog still asked for the red ball.
Some people think that this cartoon is a metaphor for the group of people who only have immediate interests and desires. Their wishes can only be simple, concrete, but only thinking in the brain – but I don’t think so, at least the dog is happy after getting these three balls. Yes, and he doesn’t need to think too much about making the wrong wish or regretting the choice. On the contrary, people will fall into this kind of self-blame and regret for making a wrong choice – but have you ever thought that there are no fucking “three wishes” in this world at all, and “I become an insect and you will still do it .” Won’t love me” problem, the imaginary dilemma that people get into is that they can’t imagine those fictitious realities at all.
Of course, there are still some people who will use the “three wishes” instead. For example, the first wish is to multiply the next two wishes by 10 times. Such “card bug” behavior will be restricted by the “Three Wishes Organizing Committee” sooner or later. People will later find that the more restrictions, the more rules, and the more limited people’s greed, the “three wishes” gradually become a “reality”, and it is a reality that is impossible to achieve at all.
* A person kneeling in the Mahavira Hall and praying extremely devoutly*
“Buddha appears, if you let me win the lottery, I am willing to rebuild the old temple and reshape the golden body.”
* After three months, he still missed a penny and decided to demolish the temple and smash the statue*
“Donor, Donor, I see you coming to us to ask God and worship Buddha, but if you want to win the lottery, you have to buy a lottery ticket first!”
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