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The next day

The next day

By Jose Published 5 years ago 3 min read
The next day
Photo by Micheile Henderson on Unsplash

On the way to transport materials to the event site, the car we were riding in collided with another car. Fortunately, everyone in the car was fine. The driver said to us, "Stay in the car" and got out of the car.

  After about an hour of negotiation, the driver returned to the car, told us that the traffic police and insurance companies have been notified to collect evidence at the scene. Said he called his leadership, the phone report work, I can feel the tension in his words. The helpless look and the hand that has been rubbing on the steering wheel, let me also for his sweat. The leader really scolded him over the phone.

  In between waiting for the police and the insurance company to arrive, my colleague S said to me, "I don't suppose you thought you'd be doing such a job, did you?"

  "Why are you asking me that all of a sudden?" My head turned to her.

  "I thought you would do it for two or three days and then quit. Actually you could have chosen better." She slowly said, "When I just graduated, the leadership came up and gave me a particularly difficult task, I tried with all my might to do a good job on that project, but the reality is that I ended up making a mess of it, so the leadership publicly criticized me at the department meeting, and I decided to resign after that meeting. It took me an afternoon to write it, and I deliberated every word no less than ten times."

  "And then, the resignation did not succeed?" I asked.

  "Just when I was ready to knock on the door of the leader's office with my resignation, I found out that the leader was away on business that afternoon, so I had to wait until the next day to submit it. Who knows, I tossed and turned to sleep that night after, the next morning I got up as usual early in the morning, to catch the subway and squeeze the elevator to the office to clock in, I sat at my work station, nibbled on the buns I installed all the way, I suddenly felt that everything that had happened before seemed to be nothing. Then I just kept on doing it and did the job until now."

  In fact, S poked me in the heart, this job is indeed different from what I thought before, once I was also in the judgment of happy or not, there were countless times I wanted to escape, but perhaps as she said, when the sun rose as usual the next day, I would feel that everything before was just so.

  When we were busy eating dinner, we noticed that my older brother was tweeting to his wife. He explained to his wife why he was late from work, and then said to his little son on the other side of the video, "Daddy will be home soon to tell you a story".

  Whether it's me and my colleague S, or this hard-working driver, I think we're all similar. In the world of the world of the countless times before the collapse, but countless times rubbed sleepy eyes to get up, towards the life they want to run.

  Just like this night after the accident, the next day my colleague S and I went to work as usual and took the car of the driver to the event site to start a new day of work. On the road, it was as if nothing had happened and there was only a new direction in front of us.

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