My name is Chen Ye, 27 years old, a former product manager of a large factory and now a cafe manager.
My motto in life is to turn tragedy into a joke.
My ex-girlfriend said that I "never know when you're serious", but I ignored it; my boss said that the cafe was going to close, so I just made a joke and passed it by; my mother had been urging her to get married for three years, so I compiled her parallel sentences into quotations, thinking that this was her hobby in her later years.
Until one day, my mother said on the phone, "As long as you are happy," and then hung up.
I stared at the call history and suddenly panicked.
It turns out that there are some things in this world that cannot be made up into jokes.
Purpose: I lived with a talk show tone for twenty-seven years, until I discovered that some words cannot be said into jokes. Real growth is not about learning to make everyone laugh, but knowing when not to be funny.