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Where you fall down, you may not get up.

Where you fall down, you may not get up.

By RACHEL HELMSPublished 5 years ago 4 min read
Where you fall down, you may not get up.
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Old school reunion, a long-lost boy entered the door to announce: "I changed jobs!"

  

  This boy was one of the best students in our class at the time, and he graduated and took the civil service exam. The civil servant of that era is still the meat and potatoes, want to stand out from the millions of people, and not so easy, so when I heard that he succeeded in the examination, we are still very envious. Who knows that only a few years, he actually resigned.

  

  "Not happy doing it?" "So impulsive is not your character ah ......" "Ahem, how to say resignation on resignation, do not know how many people envy you?"

  

  He shrugged: "I should have been promoted to the deputy division, but the result came a relative of the boss, the top of me, and resigned in a fit of anger. Now I'm a teacher at a university, doing my studies every day, bringing up students, it's not bad."

  

  "That's not right." Some people advised him, "bear with it will pass. Besides, there will be dissatisfaction after doing the job for a long time, and the most irritating time is when you feel like eating shit every day, but it's the same everywhere you eat?"

  

  "No." He tilted his head in thought, "Do you understand my disgust? I even feel that even if I do eat shit, I'm going to eat at a different house, not here!"

  

  One girl took up his words, "I agree with you." Everyone laughed: "What, you're quitting too?" She shook her head, "No, I got divorced." We remembered that her husband was a director of a well-known company, the family had a villa, sports cars, and the children were already in elementary school, and it was incredible that he suddenly divorced.

  

  "He cheated on me." She summed it up succinctly.

  

  The first thing you need to do is to get rid of the problem. You tolerate him a little bit, stabilize the position, sooner or later can take him back. Nowadays, it is hard to find a man who can make money. Besides, from where you fell, you have to get up from where!" The girl smiled: "If you fall in the way of others, even if you stand up 10,000 times, what is the point?"

  

  A news story comes to mind.

  

  Jennifer Figo was the first woman ever to swim across the Atlantic Ocean. She had a wonderful experience, 56 years old, from Cape Verde to Chaka Chakal Island, 25 days, the day she set out the waves were 9 meters high, she still did not feel fear and insisted on completing this feat. After the wonderful is the reversal, the controversy comes after the end of the crossing.

  

  Many media in the United States used the phrase "about 2100 miles", which is a very scary number. In later interviews, the public was told that she was sailing in a catamaran, CarriedAway, and swimming in the Atlantic Ocean every day, but the length of time depended on various conditions.

  

  "A caffeine-rich soda, that's how I start my day, around 7 a.m. While I eat pasta and baked potatoes, Ray will sit at the table and analyze the day's weather for me ...... Generally I consume 8,000 calories a day, so I have to eat fish, meat, peanut butter and other foods to supplement it all at night."

  

  With everything in tip-top shape, Fico can swim for up to eight hours a day, and when she needs to resupply in the water, someone will naturally deliver energy bars to her. After an exact count, the crew came to the conclusion that she had swum about 250 miles in 25 days.

  

  Some readers felt that Fico had deceived them, believing that they should be brave enough to overcome even the stormy seas, and that only by always pushing forward in the sea would they be able to live up to their image of a heroine. What is interesting is the explanation given by Figo -

  

  "I never said the crossing plan was to swim without sleep, and when the night or bad weather caused obstruction of progress, of course I had to sit in the boat and avoid these conditions."

  

  All over the place and not dying, this persistence is certainly respectable, but not always the most suitable ending. Persistence becomes stubbornness, and will add another layer of armor for all the trials and tribulations, cocooned and difficult to extricate themselves.

  

  "Start a new kitchen" is not necessarily cowardly, but a more mature choice after introspection. The wrong direction will only be repeatedly wrong. Even if it is a wretched roll and crawl, fleeing on a road to another country, after all, is a fresh start, better than in a dead end in the end.

  

  Where to fall, not necessarily where to stand up. This is certainly not vanity, but a gentleman choose good and move.

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