Common People's N Types of Lives (Volume B)

Author: Yang Xiaomin
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: Life demands constant questioning; yet, life may not tolerate relentless inquiry. Look around at how many rushed people, with their expressions carrying the weight of prisons, are in constant motion. Unfurl your brows, and lighten your own sentence. Besides yourself, who else can restore your freedom? Perhaps no one does not long for the ability to break through reality, break through rules, and gain a fictional sense of satisfaction and verbal gratification through jokes. Then, is a joke merely just a joke? Sometimes, jokes better represent the truth of our inner selves. I think it can be said that the word "life" is the simplest word in the world—everyone has life; yet it is also the most enigmatic, richest, and most worth exploring word in the world—once you enter this world, you enter life, living ceaselessly, and must continue to live day after day, year after year. Whether by choice or by force, whether happy or unhappy. Life outside is life, and life within is also life; life under the sun is life, and life in the dark is also life; life on the social stage is life, and life in the kitchen and bedroom is also life; life in an instant is life, and life over the years is also life. There are N kinds of people in the world, and thus N kinds of lives. Moreover, as every "individual," every you, me, and him, is not just living one kind of life but also, at the same time, or in different times and spaces, experiencing N kinds of lives. In imagination or in reality, experiencing N kinds of lives. Every life requires acknowledgment; every life is worth observing. And you should know that the kind of life you have, whether lived firsthand or imagined, determines the kind of short story you write.