Nowadays, everyone loves to oppose chicken soup, and they can always find various ways to complain about chicken soup articles. However, no matter how many people object, there are always a lot of chicken soup stories on Weibo and WeChat, and love People who love chicken soup also love a kind of words, and that is famous quotes.

Everyone likes these words so much because they believe that they are useful and that famous quotes can inspire or give guidance. However, how much reading these words every day will help people, and who can be sure of them? Regarding this, my friend Xiaotang may be the most knowledgeable.

Xiaotang had a crush on a girl when he was in middle school. He confessed to her before the college entrance examination, but was rejected as expected. After the college entrance examination, Xiaotang went to school in a school in other places, but the girl's grades were not good and she embarked on the road of repeating her studies. The story begins at this time.

Despite being rejected, the two remained friends during the girl's year of repeating her studies, and the contact from both ends of the phone never stopped. Boys have slightly better grades and always guide girls in their studies, but are not limited to that. For example, when a girl has a quarrel with her family, he will help to comfort her. When the girl is depressed and lonely, he will quietly chat with her until the early morning.

Because he was afraid of being rejected again, Xiaotang didn’t express his love anymore even though he was scratching his heart. Only the sigh after hanging up the phone reminded us, the audience, that he still loves the girl on the other end of the phone.

As the college entrance examination approaches, the two of them gradually realize a problem: the long chats every night, the time to talk about study becomes less and less, and the time to talk about trivial matters becomes more and more. The so-called tutoring has become It became a burden to study. After countless hesitations and struggles, the girl spoke first, "Let's contact you after the college entrance examination is over."

Although he reluctantly agreed, Xiaotang was still worried. He was afraid that the girl had just The goodwill established in the child's heart will disappear after a few months. However, Xiaotang still fought for the right to send one or two text messages to girls every day.

At that time, Weibo was just emerging, and Xiaotang, who had just gone to college, was an early and intensive user. Xiaotang is constantly inspired by the famous quotes he reads on Weibo every day. He believes in the power of language and believes that these words can also inspire girls, so whenever he reads a wonderful quote, he will text it to the girl.

Searching for quotations has become a fixed habit for Xiaotang. He uses every trivial time he can use to browse Weibo during meal breaks, free time between classes, and so on. In order to complete his daily "tasks", he often searched late into the night. When he found a thought-provoking phrase, he typed it into his phone one by one. Why not copy and paste? Because he believed that this way he would be more sincere and he would be able to remember it more or less.

Xiaotang kept posting like this day by day until a week after the college entrance examination, when he stopped angrily. The college entrance examination was over, but the girl didn't contact him again. Xiaotang only knew from a friend of the same sex that the girl's results this time were not ideal.

This experience made Xiaotang understand two truths: first, just reading these famous sayings every day is of little use in improving grades; second, you can't catch a girl just by talking.

After so many years, Xiaotang has long forgotten that girl and the famous quote he copied. However, every time everyone mentions Xiaotang's habit of going to bed late for many years, I can't help but think of Xiaotang huddled up in the dark night of the dormitory during his freshman year, concentrating on the one or two-inch mobile phone screen.

p.s: A sentence I read on Weibo a few days ago seemed to make me realize some truth:

“The truth contained in replaceable aphorisms is one-sided and often The truth is revealed only after rereading it. Neither of its two statements is true: it only seems true because it is witty and timeless.

""Eco on Literature"