Look! 70-Year-Old Suddenly Awakens! It Turns Out Our Entire Lives Have Been Misguided

Oct. 2, 2025, 8:43 p.m. Essays

I'd rather spend tens of thousands on lavish home renovations and happily breathe in toxic formaldehyde every day, than spend a thousand yuan to buy an air purifier to remove toxic substances. Because I think white blood disease is too far from our lives, it doesn’t matter.

With a hopeful and radiant look, live the life you want. With a heart full of dreams, a vast and majestic mountain river, capable of being treated with kindness and respect by the world, never losing patience. I hope the people you love also love you equally, I hope you persevere, and I hope you are loved. I hope you treat yourself well, and I hope you are cherished by time. The things you can’t say are the most profound, but you don’t know how to express them. You feel it, but can’t articulate it. It’s a torrent of memories, beautiful beyond words, making you want to forget, but unable to let go, wanting to release it, but unable to. Memories are the best filters. I didn’t lose those memories, because when I encounter them, I should be grateful, after going through it, I should let it go. I’m just in a movie, a song, a lyric, or a road we walked together in the past.

If you can’t let go of certain memories, try to reconcile with yourself, reconcile with the memories, and write your own memories, footprints in life, whether deep or shallow, far or near, it’s all experience, we all have our own path, you have your posture, I have my trajectory, looking back, no one is superior to anyone else, therefore, our lives can never reach the satisfaction we want. You want the sun to shine brightly, but there will always be rain nearby. You want a smooth sailing journey, but sometimes you will encounter setbacks. Life is...

I'd rather spend a lot of clothes piled at home, forgotten to wear, than spend a few hundred yuan to buy a pair of better shoes. After all, bad shoes can hurt our knees, and it hasn’t happened to me yet, so I don’t care, I’m not old enough yet, and my legs are still strong.

I’d rather spend thousands of yuan on expensive liquor and wine, and spend hundreds of yuan to eat at a restaurant, drink and eat and then disappear, rather than install a water purifier that can be used for many years and can guarantee that the whole family drinks healthy water without harmful impurities. Because I despise the purifier too expensive, everyone drinks tap water, I don’t care.

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I’d rather spend a high-end dining table placed in the living room, making the food look magnificent, rather than spend a little more to buy a good set of cookware, which can allow the whole family to eat healthy and delicious food every day. Because a good set of cookware is too expensive, and it's not visible when guests come.

I’d rather fall ill and run around seeking medical treatment and spending a lot of money and time, rather than spend time and money to learn about health and prevention, to insist on exercising and to spend money to arrange a balanced diet. Because I find it too troublesome and too expensive.

I’d rather economize and make my life particularly difficult, saving all the money for my children, rather than spending a few thousand yuan to buy a few hundred thousand insurance coverage for my children. When I find that the money I’ve saved is not enough to fill a small gap, it’s useless. Because I always feel that money should be saved and kept in hand, insurance is just a piece of paper, and it won’t be used for a lifetime.

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I’d rather quarrel with my old man and drag out the old accounts of decades, rather than sit together and plan how to make this year happy and harmonious. Because it’s simpler to drag old accounts than to plan the future.

I’d rather spend my savings to buy a car for my children, rather than buy a comfortable and healthy mattress for myself, because a few thousand yuan is too expensive to buy a bed for sleeping, and the face of my children is more important, my spine and my waist can still support me.

This life, we desperately pursue what we truly need? We put in more effort, and we get very little in return? Now, the realization hasn’t come too late.