Hold On is a story about an ordinary man being reborn.
Lu Xi is no genius, nor is he some great villain. He’s like most of us: a little lazy, a little afraid, wanting to run when trouble comes, and forcing himself to endure when he can’t escape. He is lucky enough to meet someone willing to give him a hand at his lowest point, and he manages to take hold of it.
Zhou Haisheng said that people need to find the weight that belongs to them.
Lu Xi’s weight is Lu Yuan, Chen Xiaomei, that carton of crumpled milk, and the six words he wrote in the notes section of the remittance slip every month for four years: “Buy milk for Yuan’er.”
Those weights grounded him and stopped him from drifting.
We all need a weight like that. It might be a person, an event, a promise, or something we say to ourselves. With it, no matter how strong the wind blows, it can’t carry us away.
Thank you for reading this far.
If you’re standing on a bridge somewhere, I hope someone offers you a cigarette. If no one does, light one for yourself.
When you’ve finished, turn around and head back.
