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My name is Wang Yanliang and I was born in Anxing County. Anxing County is very small. If you ride a bicycle quickly, you can circle around the center of the county in half an hour.
Logically speaking, my family conditions are not good. There is only a remote grocery store in the house. My mother works as a storekeeper and my father is a repairman.
But I don’t understand why my parents, who seem to be very poor and only give me a piece of pocket money, can own a grocery store and a house.
Soon, I forgot about this matter. I always heard people say that reading can change a person's destiny, but what is destiny?
I don't know, I only know that I don't like studying, but my academic performance is not bad. Teachers, relatives, and parents all have high hopes for me.
After the high school entrance examination, a new store opened on Shengli Road, called Dalang Direct Store. I saw their advertisement on TV, and it looked a bit like a liar.
The Dalang directly-operated store has two mascots who often perform in front of the store, and they dance with the two mascots next door every Saturday.
Then I realized that they were not scammers, and the products they sold were very cheap and practical, so I got my first mobile phone in my life.
It's not Dalang's phone, it's a phone that my parents returned by paying up their phone bills, a Hisense and a ZTE, one black and one white, ZTE's special cards.
I connected to a wifi with the password 12345678, got exposed to the online world, and learned about some digital products.
In the beginning, MIUI was the most usable system. Countless people were comparing MIUI with IOS. I often watched them quarrel.
But not long after, a new brand emerged, Nebula Technology. Their mobile phones were very expensive, and they suddenly had many fans.
I was very curious, so I saw the Xinghuo Lie. This was the first mobile phone that attracted me so much. Before that, I only wanted to buy a Redmi.
The starting price of 1998 was a bit expensive. I wanted it very much, but couldn't afford it. Later, Nebula Technology released a new mobile phone, which was really beautiful.
The name is Xingyu-Mu, which sounds nice but is also very expensive. Every time I go to school, I pass by the Dalang Direct Store and see the square gift box on the counter.
When I entered high school, I knew that mobile phones were not something I should think about. I started studying crazily, wishing I could study 20 hours a day without even sleeping.
Not long after, I had a physical problem. I discovered that learning is not just about hard work, it also requires talent. I was hit hard.
One Saturday during the holiday, I passed by the Dalang Direct Store and found that the two mascots were missing, and the mascot next door no longer danced with them.
The Nebula counter is also gone. There is a TV set in front of the Dalang Direct Store, playing cartoons. I like both cartoons very much.
When updating every week, I would use my black Hisense mobile phone to peek at the WiFi. Xiaoxing was very handsome, and it gave me the motivation to fight again.
But I lost the craziness I had in my freshman year of high school. I watched anime while studying, and I also learned more about Nebula Technology.
News often reports on what technological breakthroughs they have made, which I don’t understand and seems to me to be none of my business.
But I like Nebula mobile phones very much. I have liked them since Xinghuo Lie, then to Chi, Jhin, and later Shuo. They are all very attractive to me.
I also like Xingyu, but in comparison, I like Xinghuo more. Every time Xinghuo changes a lot, I hate my mobile phone more and more.
"When I make money..."
When I was in my senior year of high school, I fell in love with my female classmate, but what does liking mean? All I know is that when I see her cry, I feel a little sad.
What kind of person likes this?
Finally, I was admitted to a lower-ranking second-level program. My parents were very happy because I was the first undergraduate in my family, and they said it was an honor.
Honor?
Only I know that I didn't work hard. If I had worked harder, the result would not be like this, but I will not regret it.
What's the use of regretting what has already happened? Might as well use it to create a better future!
My mother bought me a Xingyu-Xi, which is very beautiful and is the standard top version. According to my understanding, this phone costs 4,599 yuan.
Really expensive! But it is easy to use. Nebula mobile phone is recognized as the best mobile phone in China, and it has already entered the international market to compete with Apple.
Everyone says that Nebula Technology is the light of domestic production, and I think so too. It’s a pity that the product I bought is not Spark, which is more cost-effective.
And I like the appearance. Although I look a little boring, I like the exaggerated and domineering design of Xinghuo. It looks so cool!
Facts have proved that I am not the only one who thinks so. Many students in college are using Spark gaming phones, and some people have bought a complete set of Sparks.
Spark gaming phones, gaming tablets, gaming handhelds, smart watches, Bluetooth headsets, handheld PCs, and this year’s new gaming laptops!
My roommate has a Spark gaming laptop, it’s so cool! Watching him play games in the dormitory every day, I feel really envious.
But I knew that a Spark gaming laptop worth tens of thousands of dollars was not something I could afford. I told myself, I didn’t come to college to play games!
I started working hard again, studying hard, exercising, I became confident, and I started pursuing the girl I liked in my senior year of high school, and then failed.
Maybe failure is the norm in life? Later, I didn’t get the scholarship, but my grades were clearly among the top three in the class! I try to find some problems.
I found out, I don’t understand the ways of the world, I said the wrong thing when I was having dinner with the department leaders and teachers, and some classmates secretly laughed at me.
So, I started to think about life for the first time, I started to escape, I became depressed, I started to be addicted to mobile games, and my life became irregular.
I realized I couldn't do this! I tried to seek change, I started to meet girls in school, and I fell in love for the first time in my life.
Seven days later, I broke up. I was a little sad. In the second semester, I fell in love again. She was not a good relationship, but it was not a bad relationship either.
I didn't like it very much, but I didn't dislike it either. This feeling made me feel very strange. Finally, I figured it out. It turned out that I was compromising.
After two months, I began to consider practical issues. In order to make myself financially independent, I tried to find some part-time jobs to start.
It was a failure at first, and I worked as a free labor force. Later, I earned 8,000 yuan in three months, and I used some living expenses to replace my parents’ mobile phones.
My parents were very happy, but they didn’t know that I originally planned to buy myself a new mobile phone and buy something for my girlfriend. It was very heartless to think about it.
I have to say that the Nebula mobile phone is really durable. I have used it for such a long time and it has not broken yet.
Yes, I'm used to asking my parents for money all the time, but there's something wrong with my relationship, and I don't like her anymore.
Not because of money, but because I felt a lot of pressure on her and I wanted to work hard, but her thoughts were always so simple.
I don't like pressure, and I didn't like her that much, so we broke up. It turned out that this decision was the right one.
Because, when I bought a mobile phone for my parents, they were very happy. As soon as the neighbors came, they started to show off, look, my son bought it for me!
I seemed to understand something, and I felt a little sad. After a while, I understood that it was a kind of responsibility, a sense of responsibility belonging to men!
Slowly, I earned more and more, and I wanted to try something I had never tried before, such as... playing games, but the Spark gaming laptop was too expensive.
If I forcefully buy it, I will definitely have to bear more pressure, so I chose the second-tier, no, second-tier cost-effective brand.
It's not bad, nor is it good. I don't particularly like it, but I can't say I don't like it. Just like that, I have my own gaming laptop.
But I know that I compromised again. I vaguely remember that in high school and when I first entered college, I didn’t seem to be a compromising person?
Time will always change things!
I compromised when I was in love in college. I was very irresponsible. When I bought a game laptop, I compromised again. After that, I compromised more and more...
Compromise at work, compromise in life, even major things in life. What scares me a little is that the person I am with is also a compromise person.
I seem to have forgotten what happiness is?
Someone once said, what's yours is yours, and you can't force it if it's not yours. I hate this sentence very much. It makes me feel painful.
I began to think back on what I used to do the most. I remembered that in high school, I would sneak to the playground during evening study sessions and lie down and look up at the stars.
Suddenly, I realized that it had been a long time since I had looked up at the stars. When I looked up again, I was back twelve years ago.
Back on the playground in high school, everything around me was so strange, yet so familiar. A girl sneaked out in the distance.
I laughed, I had never laughed so happily, I laughed that I could still change myself, but in fact, I didn’t hate that I was a compromising person.
Because in our lives, we always have to face various compromises, from being high-spirited at the beginning to accepting our own ordinaryness.
Being ordinary is not wrong, but there is still a chance to change. Then, look up at the starry sky, find your own star, and work harder!
