"The moment it breaks out of the cocoon, it is the pain of tearing off a layer of skin, heart-to-heart, and many butterflies die from the pain at the moment they break out of the cocoon. This is a bit like our growth. Say some innocuous words, make some dispensable expressions, and then the days pass... "
——These are scattered sentences from "The Edge of Love and Hate" by the best-selling writer born in the 1980s, Guo Jingming, and other unknown essays or novels, which were cleverly pieced together by netizens into a short paragraph. It seemed a bit shocking to me. Fortunately, I saw such a sentence when I was still young, so I remembered it: Youth should not be like this, but it has become like this.
Once upon a time, when I was wearing a 15x20 T-shirt to class, the word "growth" was generally understood in textbooks only as a symbol like a small tree. The towering trees are our destination, the seedlings are our beginning, and the process is the storm we have to go through. Some understatement, but without losing the connotation of truth, although we didn't understand that much at that time, we just agreed quietly. It was not until our youth was over that we slowly understood that when we turned into towering trees, we were already scarred and full of pain - everything was no longer that simple.