Frankly speaking, there are many things I don't like about this book: the praise and criticism imposed on the characters by the author; There is no happy ending in the book; Sun Shaoping and Tian Xiaoxia are so puzzling; Tian Xiaoxia's death and urinary incontinence in Sun Shaoping; Aliens; Wait a minute. Even every character can find a character I don't like.
But this book finally attracted me and changed me. This is because it has a fascinating beginning; More importantly, it taught me the self-esteem of an ordinary person.
Sun Shaoping is embarrassed in material life and lonely in spirit (Tian Xiaoxia is only the author's wishful thinking)-but I have never met anyone who can take his spiritual world seriously like him in my life.
Over the years, I have inexplicably come to a noble place, doing profound knowledge, surrounded by all kinds of people, either smart or pretentious, or both. Occasionally, among the relatives who return home, they briefly enjoy the inexplicable reverence and superiority brought by information asymmetry, which seems to make a great difference. But when I think of Sun Shaoping, I wake up from a dream and realize the desolation and poverty of my spiritual home.
Sun Shaoping in my heart is a "picky" person. In ordinary life circumstances, he is still meticulous about his spiritual world. Compared with him, most of those arrogant "successful people" live like animals.
Confucianism stresses "cautious independence", which is an unsupervised moral self-discipline. Sun Shaoping's spiritual pursuit is also a personal choice when no one appreciates it. His surroundings are not an environment where he can appreciate and repay his pursuit; Nor did he indulge in his talents and show his taste like proud as a peacock, like many "people who love books"; He didn't even study because of pure professional love. He is meticulous about the spiritual world only because he sincerely respects and loves himself as a noble person; Instead of treating yourself as an animal and scribbling; Or as a social role: "white collar" and "manager X", seek a sense of accomplishment from these roles.
Such an attitude is more powerful than any words, and such a noble ordinary person is more convincing than any social role. It is popular in society to judge a person's quality by his social status; Many friends around me often praise or criticize others' "achievements" or "tastes". I always feel that I can't associate with them, and I can't accept such values, because I have met people like Sun Shaoping, and I prefer to believe that such people exist. People can be independent of success or failure, independent of secular value judgment, independent of other people's criticism, and respect themselves and be a noble person.
I have never been satisfied with myself. But what Ordinary World has taught me is one of the few places where I am proud of myself. Ordinary World is a book that I want my future children to read. It's not to make my child more like his father (I'm not an ancient person, and I don't think it's wrong to be "unworthy"), but I hope he can become someone I really admire in the future.