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There was once a girl in the company who was a fitness fanatic. When I first came to work, I did not have time to match the chair, she let me sit on her own chair, and then rolled out a pink yoga ball from under the belly of the table, and sat on it in a calm manner.
My jaw dropped, she waved her hand, "It's okay, this is conducive to exercise the strength of the waist and abdominal muscles, but the sitting posture must be correct."
One day, we lined up to heat up the food, and she said nothing about crossing her legs to the half-half-high water bar, and performed a one-horse race on the spot.
When the weather is good, she will carry her yoga mat to the roof deck at noon, and then flat-panel props to read e-books ......
Once we chatted, she said that she had just given birth to a child, and her body shape is also shocking. Out of the breastfeeding period, bet with her husband to see if she could lose 10 pounds of meat a month. As a result, she didn't lose any weight, and her husband took away the money. She is not a good person, but that month the good habit of fitness cultivated, and from then on, love fitness.
One day during lunch break, she taught me some easy-to-learn fitness moves in the office. First issued two small dumbbells, I hold the row two circles, simple well. She seemed to see through my mind, "You're watching the variety show while rowing circles, ten a group, each time to do ten groups, adhere to a month, butterfly sleeve certainly have changed."
Then she ran to the root of the wall, slipped down the wall, and took a horse stance against the wall, picked up a book, and looked at it calmly.
She looked at me with a smile on her face, "Fitness habits should be developed gradually, and gradually your control over your body will be strengthened step by step. Originally a lot of action can not be done, suddenly one day can do it, can control the body feels especially good, which is more than how many pounds of meat, there is no waistline is still people happy, this is the magic of fitness."
She was the one who told me that it is a great joy to have some control over your body through relentless effort.
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I have a writer friend whose thirty years of life is enough to write a novel. He is now considered a first-rate essayist, but he only graduated from middle school.
He said that because of his poor family, at the age of 14, he carried a quilt to the construction site to work as a small laborer, and couldn't push the dump truck, starting with the bricks. Looking at the sunlight sprinkled between the cracks of the building, the heart felt that this should not be his life. Take the first month's salary, he sat on a tricycle to the night market, bought a set of four famous books, plus a new dictionary.
Every day after work, other people high melon seeds, fight the landlord, watch square dance, he nestled in the shed, in the old cloth tent light a lamp, a little bit of gnawing on those thick books, do not understand the words and words, go to the dictionary.
He didn't know what he was doing, he felt so happy when he took the book; he didn't know how to grow up, but he was convinced that he wouldn't stay in the dusty construction site. He has drifted through more than a dozen cities, and what he has never lost is that Xinhua dictionary.
He has read a lot of books, from gulping down, to establish a system; from imitating the writing of famous writers, to reconcile their breath, in the text of a unique school of thought, it took 10 years - 10 years later, he maintains the rhythm of two books a year.
Once we chatted, he said: "I hate some people, obviously can not write anything, non-blame this era no one to appreciate; living in poverty, non-mouthing hard like the quiet years. How is it possible that no one appreciates something really good? Moreover, the years are not as quiet as you want them to be. Life is like a boat on the water, only very hard to have the ability to control the direction, then want to hustle or quiet, is a choice."
Yes, the quiet life, in fact, there is a layer of outside named "strength" protective cover. Although transparent, but a layer of diamond cover it.
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The last time I went to Beijing on a business trip, I visited a company on Chang'an Street, and I had a dinner date in the evening at the Sheep's Room Hutong. In advance of the drop car, look at the positioning is quite close, the results of the left a phone call right a phone call, a moment to let me go to the east gate, a moment to let me run to the south gate, tossing a twenty minutes, especially irritated.
The driver on the phone is a Beijing boy, a bit of a stutter, keep apologizing, and make people rub fire can not send out.
Finally came. I've been trying to chat with him to ease the atmosphere.
This is the first time I've ever seen a movie that I've ever seen, and I've never seen one.
He came from a musical family, his father played trombone in the symphony orchestra, and he was sent to learn piano as a child. "You don't know how sick it was, it was like training an Olympic champion, they made it mandatory that I practiced for three hours every day after school."
He said his biggest dream as a child was to watch a full episode of Flower Fairies, but that would have delayed practicing the piano. The first thing his dad did when he got home from work was to touch the TV, and if it was hot, he'd give it a good thrashing.
I came to the interest, and asked him, "What should we do"? He looked at me, "Some dreams can only be dreams, I have recognized the reality since I was a child. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to get the best out of your life, but I'm sure you're going to be able to get the best out of your life! I want to say 'no' to life, to have the strength."
I'm a bit of an admirer of this little brother, and a bit reluctant, "So many years of learning the piano for nothing?"
"Music is still very much in love, now I listen to American folk music, but also at home to do electronic music, like music is not necessarily the whole symphony. Music is to make people happy, there is no form of high or low."
Xiao is now doing import and export trade that has nothing to do with music, and when work is stressful, he goes out and pulls jobs and chats with people. He said that everyone has a story, and ordinary people always give him a lot of positive energy.
On a Friday evening in Beijing, he spent an hour and a half transporting me to the mouth of a hutong. Behind the car, all kinds of bicycles and tricycles urging, he rolled down the window to me shouted at the top of his voice, "Remember to give me five-star praise ah!"
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Writer Liao Yimei has a couple of lines in Living Clumsily Like Me that I really like.
"I firmly believe that people should have the strength to pull themselves up out of the mud by their hair."
She said, "At the end of every cul-de-sac, there is another dimension of sky."
She also said, "You must be a shallow person if you are happy and carefree all your life."
Like her, I am an optimistic pessimist. I don't believe in absolute happiness in this world, just as I don't believe in sadness that time can't take away.
Life consists of sweet and sour. When I was a child, I thought life would be smooth sailing as long as I followed the steps. Growing up to understand that everyone has the gift of their own destiny, just some people will nag you to listen to, and some people will be buried in the bottom of the heart.
Difficult road, you can not go? Many times, we do not have the right to choose ah.
The only thing is, regardless of good times and bad times, do not relax hard life, a little bit to enhance their own strength, so that, in the face of life's wind and waves, can be a little bit more control.
The route of life needs to be planned, but there is no need to over-plan.
Other people can not take away your - is the growing strength, excellent insight, strong heart, as well as encountered things calm.
I believe that there is no such thing as a wasted journey in life. If you can't see the goal of your dream, big deal, take two more steps.