Invisibly Poor Me

I had a deep feeling after reading this book. From the first chapter, the three words ********* came to my mind, followed by Huabei, Borrow, Zhima Credit. Spending money feels good for a while, and it feels good all the time. People around me seem to be spending their future money like this, and then pay it back every month. Every year, for people with a positive attitude, they have such a consumption pattern, and they are motivated only when they are stressed. For people who are negative and do not know how to plan their lives, they will buy and buy for a while, and their finances cannot make ends meet. In the end, they can only demolish the east wall and pay the west wall to plug the debt. This will really destroy their lives. Water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it. How to use this mechanism, whether it is pros or cons, depends on different people's opinions. People survive in a competitive environment, and the driving force of competition is comparison. It is true that some people will fight for their own ideals, but who can ignore the sense of glory gained by comparing with others and gaining the upper hand. If you cannot see a high-quality life, your mentality may not change. But when someone uses real money to get what you want, you must adjust your mentality, stay calm, and suppress jealousy. I have to say that this is indeed a rare thing. After all, this is human nature. The heroine's mentality is unbalanced, and the choices she makes are not legitimate, but there is a certain rationality. Note that she does not want to surpass others, she just wants to have the same life as others and look the same as others, but she is not willing to bear the low effort. This character has a clear explanation, low self-esteem and fear of being looked down upon. What is the legitimate choice? Leave this circle. Second, don't care about other people's opinions. Character determines destiny. It is really difficult for people with low self-esteem to change. Although the reality is that even if you don't have huge social resources, a respected status, or a gorgeous garage, you will still gain the respect of others as long as you have the ability. But it is really difficult for a person with low self-esteem to break through his own way of thinking and endure the lonely and low tide process, because hard work may not necessarily lead to success. If he fails again and again, people with low self-esteem (conceit) will often choose to escape, retreat, and look for excuses for failure by looking at some negative and anxiety-inducing things. As an aside, I discovered a phenomenon that once you pay off your net bag debt, you will definitely use it next time. This is like an addiction. What is the psychology of it? First, the things you want to buy can be purchased immediately. This is too tempting. It is easy to make money but difficult to save money. Second, after you have paid off the first payment, the sense of crisis is relieved. Although you know that repayment is uncomfortable, the passion of shopping will still overcome this worry. When your head is hot, everything will be left to the future. The character of Wang Zhenzhen is well created, and her experience can resonate with many young people. I think if it were not a censorship issue, the ending might not be so sunny. If the ending is tragic, more people may empathize with it. This will also serve as a warning to young people not to let vanity overwhelm your future life.

Poverty is not terrible, what is terrible is your vanity. The planned male protagonist encounters and invades the heroine's glamorous appearance and lack of confidence and poverty afterward. Do we choose face or reality? But how many people listen to their inner voice.

As an obviously poor individual, when I saw the title of this book, I had the urge to read it.

There is a "wonderful" feeling when reading this work. Since the story is set in 2029, at first, many high-tech settings - glasses-shaped mobile phones, golden halos automatically generated by consumption quota, etc., Will give people the illusion of reading a science fiction novel; however, these illusions fleetingly disappear as the plot develops. Inadvertently, you will find that the protagonist of the novel, Wang Zhenzhen, seems to be someone you know, and many of the problems she encounters have even happened to her friends and even herself. Therefore, the setting of "science fiction" is just a false coat woven to make the presentation of the story more dramatic, and what is told is exactly the story of the current era. It is not difficult for readers who have read this book to find that the author seems to have poured a lot of chicken soup into the soul through Wang Zhenzhen's story, but I don't think this is something that "changes the color of talk". On the one hand, any work that wants to convey a positive attitude towards life and a good lifestyle will inevitably talk about something similar to Chicken Soup for the Soul; on the other hand, in terms of the "indoctrination" of Chicken Soup for the Soul, this book is "timely, reasonable, and unpretentious" - it comes naturally and with emotion as the story progresses, without excessive expansion and extension, so that these contents are well integrated with the story, without appearing obtrusive and cumbersome, and at the same time, it also well conveys the life attitude advocated by the author. At the same time, as Wang Zhenzhen grew up step by step, Chicken Soup for the Soul gradually rose from low-level consumption to high-level life attitude, and finally formed an organic whole.

The famous psychologist Pavlov conducted an experiment with dogs: every time he gave the dog food, he turned on a red light and rang a bell. After a period of time, when the bell rings or the red light turns on, the dog begins to salivate. Skinner's experiments showed that in a certain stimulus situation, if the consequences of an animal's response can satisfy a certain need (obtaining a reward or escaping punishment), the probability of such a response occurring in the future will increase. In this reaction process, after many trials and errors and accidental success, a connection is established between the situation and the reaction action, forming a conditioned reflex. What is described in the novel is exactly the conditioned reflex that occurs after humans enjoy the spiritual pleasure brought by superior technology and material life stimulation: crazy consumption to enjoy a higher quality of life and spiritual pleasure. The background of the novel is set in the capital ten years later, in 2029, an era that is not too far away from the present but can still create fantasy. Ten years later in the novel, not much has changed, and prices have not increased. The biggest change is that technology has progressed (but this is only reflected in mobile devices), and more advanced mobile devices and mobile payment technology have emerged (but 100-megapixel mobile phones are now available). The protagonist in the novel, Wang Zhenzhen, is an ordinary white-collar worker and a girl with a superior quality of life in the eyes of others. She is also a "Beijing drifter". In order to blend in with the people around him, in order to comfort his lonely soul, in order to satisfy his own vanity, and for the spiritual pleasure after material stimulation, Wang Zhenzhen spends money without any scruples, just to look like others, to be well-dressed in the eyes of others, but behind others, in his own small world, only he knows what his true self is like. After once again overdrafting to satisfy her own vanity, Wang Zhenzhen fell into a debt crisis and owed a large amount of debt. This will make it impossible for her to survive in society using contemporary methods (mobile payments), and her life is about to undergo earth-shaking changes. After accidentally meeting Zhou Youxin, a Kannu who was also heavily in debt, Wang Zhenzhen came into contact with a group in a similar situation to her, the "Association of the Disappeared." In this group, there are all kinds of people who owe huge debts for various reasons. Everyone has a story, and Wang Zhenzhen is just an insignificant one among the protagonists of many stories... The background of the novel is set ten years later. At that time, those born in the 1980s were approaching the age of "knowing destiny", and those born in the 1990s were also in the "age of no doubt". People born in 2000 have reached the age where they need to work hard for life. Whether it is ten years later or now, it is an era of overflowing materialistic desires. All kinds of material temptations and spiritual temptations stimulate people's sensory nerves, stimulate people's sexual desire, and make people crazy about it. ****** Is a terrible thing. "Human beings are controlled by **** from the time when they are young and sensible, to working as adults, finally to retirement, and even before death. Most people want to buy better food, newer mobile phones, more luxurious and more stylish cars... There is almost no end to the things they want to buy. After a short period of satisfaction, there will be new needs to be satisfied, and then we consume them day after day, year after year." Especially today's young people, spending tomorrow's money and enjoying today's life seems to have formed a trend. Credit cards and various online loans are emerging one after another, and they are so grand that it is breathtaking. It seems that if you don't have a credit card, you can't keep up with the trends, and you are out of touch with society. However, in reality, are people who hold multiple credit cards really that nourished? They racked their brains to find ways to raise money to repay the monthly repayments. After the repayment crisis was temporarily relieved, the comfortable and comfortable days continued. They had long forgotten the embarrassment before the repayments. The scars were healed and they forgot the pain. However, on this day next month, they made the same mistake again... Although this novel is in the style of an Internet novel, the author's ability to write about this social phenomenon is worthy of recognition. The novel's main characters (male and female protagonists) are relatively successful in portraying them. However, the shortcomings of the novel are also obvious. Since it is an online novel, the writing and dialogue aspects of the novel will not be discussed for now. The details of the novel still need to be paid attention to. The pace of the first half of the novel is normal. However, after the members of the "Consumers Association" participated in the "Save Money Battle" reality show, the pace of the novel accelerated abnormally, as if it was written to wrap up as quickly as possible. In addition to using a few smaller pages to describe other participating members. A large amount of space is used to describe Wang Zhenzhen's participation in the competition. And this large amount of space is just like a running account, just describing what Wang Zhenzhen did. For example, she used Weibo articles to gain fans, give rewards, accept advertisements, have accidents, clarify facts, etc... Everything progressed too fast and suddenly, which made the whole plot seem very unreasonable. Wang Zhenzhen changed too quickly. However, the heroine's inner activities (Weibo posts) add a lot of color to the work. In the end, the ending of the novel is pretty good. As a love story, the male and female protagonists express their feelings towards each other at the end. Although it is a bit slow, it is not bad. (I originally thought that Zhou Youxin's actual purpose of participating in the competition was to help Wang Zhenzhen pay off his debts, but it turned out that the male protagonist seemed to reveal this intention, but did not take action! /(╯‵□′)╯┻━┻)

After reading online articles for so many years, this is the first time I have rated it, and it is five stars. This book is too realistic. (Is Ma Jun a combination of Jack Ma and Lei Jun? Hahahaha)

I don't know what magic drove me to read the whole story, as if I was under the pressure of this economic bankruptcy. Although I am not a monthly income earner, I have set a quota of 1/2 of my savings every month, which often makes my life fall into a state of "bankruptcy at the end of the month". The small details describing the protagonists in many books truly restored the feeling of suffocation I felt at the end of the month when I was living on a tight budget, and the warmth I felt when I reached out to my friends for help. I also cut off contact with several friends because of money. I was very surprised when I saw the ending! Especially now that I am slowly living my life, I have discovered my own shining points and shortcomings, and I have seen the sincere friends around me who are so close to the protagonist in the book. Under this overdraft consumption system that predicts the future, we really should have more planned and foreseeable consumption. Only by taking good control of your own future can you truly be responsible for yourself!

This book is one of the most relaxing ones I have read recently. Although its topic selection is actually not easy, the content is also worth thinking about. The heroine Wang is really an ordinary girl like you and me, just like the sister next door, she has no glamorous appearance and no particularly smart mind. She has the childishness of a child and the innocence of a newbie in society, and of course a little impulsive and reckless. Although she is already working, she is still essentially a child. She is easily confused and easily lost in the bustling world. She is the only daughter in the family. Her parents may not be able to provide much material help, but they have never allowed her to take on the responsibilities of the family. Especially since this girl is living in the north, they just hope that she can take care of herself. It is not easy for a person to make a living outside, and this colorful world is full of temptations. She has not contracted any unforgivable bad habits, but when she is lonely, she always wants to add some sweetness to this unsatisfactory life and those trivial sufferings. She's just a little extravagant with her money. New mobile phones, internet celebrity desserts, less commonly used electrical appliances, stylish clothes and jewelry, those gadgets that are not very practical but are very cute... Some are not expensive, some are a little expensive, and some are expensive but you can still afford them if you grit your teeth and take a loan... She feels that if she spends tomorrow's money, she can realize today's dream, and she can earn it back tomorrow anyway. Sometimes it was a willful act, sometimes it was a hothead, and sometimes it was a reward for herself. She had never had a clear understanding of her financial situation. She always felt that she was young and could earn everything back. But she didn't know that what shattered her dream was precisely the overdraft of tomorrow. So, due to a hot-headed impulse purchase, her online reputation went bankrupt, and there was a problem with the loan guarantee for her ex-boyfriend... When Zhenzhen was struggling with her own economic crisis, she met a group of people in the QQ group who had the same problem as her... An old man who was defrauded of all his pensions, a young man who rewarded anchors for maxing out their credit cards, a girl who suffered from the sequelae of plastic surgery, a man who was stuck borrowing money to trade in stocks... In the days when I was fighting against poverty, I was constantly reflecting on "life and survival", "security and self-worth", "other people's perspective", "happiness and suffering", "saving money and frugality and quality of life", and "life is short, live as you please"... As she settled and thought step by step, she gradually gained the courage to face her true self; gradually learned to reconcile with herself and life; and gradually found the answer in her own heart. In the words of the novel's heroine, "This is not a novel, but more like an argumentative essay that uses the form of a novel to explain the truth." I personally think that the author can make a relatively heavy topic and a lot of truth in it so interesting in the form of a novel, and I really admire the author. I am not a so-called "invisible poor" person, but I have also made impulsive purchases like Zhenzhen, such as sewing machines, juicers, blenders, ice cream machines worth four thousand or five thousand... Exquisite but impractical cups, wrapping paper and brochures that I can't bear to throw away because I think I can use them that day, clothes that I always think I might wear again one day... How much of my energy do these things that are actually not important take up? I'm reflecting on my life. Use this true advice as a conclusion, and at the same time remind yourself: Own it carefully, use it cherishly, and give it away bravely.

Being poor really changes relationships. This personal experience can only be felt after truly entering the society. There is really a barrier between the rich and the poor that cannot be broken through. But I am not willing to give in. I will become a rich man one day. I will work hard to change my life and work proactively and enthusiastically. This is a good thing. This book has a very positive outlook and is very passionate!

The author is a socially responsible person. If today in 9102 we completely abandon the thrift and thrift that was unique to the era of slash-and-burn farming and men farming and women weaving, and begin to become vain and materialistic, and eventually money openly becomes a crucial existence in this world, perhaps what we need to defend and forget is no longer our own original likes and dislikes. Consumerism has entered the house, and returning to nature is destined to fail. Spiritual disarmament will eventually change our genes and be deeply imprinted in the present and future. The novel is more like an imperial capital survival manual. The settings of the initial credit value and aperture reminded me of Hao Jingfang's "Beijing Folding". Economic level determines class, and people are destined to flock together. The latter is more like "Lord of the Flies" in that it explores the fate of human beings as a class in a world where resources are drying up, but this novel focuses on the distortion of value under the control of consumerism, and how ordinary us will escape death. Just like all legendary novels, when the heroine is about to despair, a hero always comes to the world, and this time it is indeed a comrade who fights side by side. The next paragraph is my favorite scene in the whole article, about saving money and staying together to keep warm. In this reality of killing everyone, everyone embarks on a self-salvation, saving both the body and the soul. And every step of progress is like a sublimation of Zen enlightenment. Here the author also tries to start to put forward his own world view. It is obviously a book describing a battle royale under money, but the author's ambition goes far beyond that. The "Save Money Battle" that follows is definitely the best part of the whole novel, and it is also one of the highlights that makes this realistic novel less boring. It deeply returns to entertainment, and all values ​​​​are concentrated in a moment of competition. Wang Zhenzhen's article once again touched me, so that the final outcome is actually not that important. Although it is the legendary 2029, the author does not intend that distance will produce beauty. On the contrary, she is more concerned about everything at the moment, such as online loans, campus loans, stock trading, and health care products. These social issues are all involved. The Buddha must eventually come to the world after enlightenment. All living beings are basically like this. Baudrillard said in his "Consumer Society": "Our consumption activities have nothing to do with real needs, but constantly operate and consolidate the semiotic sociology system of consumerism. This systematic semiotic encoding guides and produces our consumption habits, and it makes us constantly consume the image of ourselves." People exist in the world as social beings, and they will always be influenced by what they see and hear unconsciously. The "rabble" says that the public group consciousness will always be unconsciously dominated, which is why there is so-called fashion and fashion. A banquet with falling rose petals in the Middle Ages can make the whole city flock to it, not to mention today with the information explosion. As for rising up or sinking down, whether you can complete self-awakening in such an environment where "in fact, your thinking is not your thinking" requires wisdom and understanding. Only when we no longer change ourselves because of the value of others, and no longer evaluate ourselves because of our existence in other people's world, can I be the real me. As for how to do it, the author may have given an answer.