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A rental listing has started for the house where a married couple died at the age of 21—would you want to live there? The landlord is really unlucky; this community was already a financial burden, and it has turned into a murder house too $BTW
I tried. I used a Korean ladder to browse Pinduoduo—cheaper. I used a Singaporean ladder to browse Taobao—cheaper. I used a Hong Kong ladder to browse Xiaohongshu—cheaper.
Parents spend tens of millions at home to send their kids to American schools from a young age—summer camps, and then high school is followed by sending them abroad. After graduation, they come back to Taiwan, and the very first thing they do is complain that the home’s interior design is ugly, that their parents’ English has an accent, and that their family doesn’t know what “boutique coffee” is.
What’s even more outrageous? They’re using their parents’ supplementary card to buy Aesop, and at the same time, in their Instagram Stories, they write, “Taiwanese people really don’t have any taste.”
The air goes suddenly quiet—not in your living room, but at my parents’ generation’s gatherings. Those uncles and aunts have worked hard to build a company, pushing their children into a world they themselves couldn’t reach back then. Then the kids come back and look at them the way you’d look at a relic from the last century.
Honestly, this kind of contradiction is very subtle. You take someone else’s resources to broaden your horizons, but when you come back you still look down on the resources themselves for not being “high-class” enough.
Have you ever thought that the position you’re standing in right now—criticizing—was exactly the stepping stone that lifted you up back then?
No, I’m not asking you to be grateful, but at least don’t step on others to get ahead.
I saw a post that said: Your body takes up 70% of your appearance, 80% of your confidence, and 90% of your temperament—so you must definitely get thinner. Get so thin that you become crazy in love with yourself every day. Once you slim down, you’ll understand that the so-called feeling of hunger is just a passing cloud. Someone replied below: Do you know how big the effects of hunger can be? Maybe you only lose 10 jin, but your face will look a whole smaller. Your jawline will become more defined. As the fat around your eyes disappears, your eyes will look bigger. There’s a chance that an inner double eyelid becomes an outer double. You must get thinner—so your features become refined. Actually, most of the time you’re just craving; you’re not really hungry. What’s scary about losing weight isn’t hunger. The most terrifying thing about losing weight is craving. When your ambition for beauty overcomes your desire for food, you can slim down. Keeping the feeling of hunger is the beginning of getting slimmer. You must defeat yourself, okay? $SOL
Interning in Shenzhen, you can go to Hong Kong and Macau to eat and shop to your heart’s content. Interning in Shanghai, you can eat and shop around the city to your heart’s content. Interning in Beijing—what can you even do…? Ride a bicycle to Tiananmen?
I went to sell cardboard boxes. I scanned a shared bicycle. It cost 1.5. I sold the cardboard boxes for 1.5. I don’t know what I was busying myself for on that trip.