Dedicated to everyone who has been forced or chosen to be different.
At twenty-three, Yanyan graduated from college, full of ambition and confidence. After a year at work, she was unemployed and living at home, waiting every day for her parents to scold her.
At thirty-three, Wang Huai had spent ten years building a business and managed over a hundred people, but in the end, he left in defeat. After years of work, he was back at square one, smoking constantly to drown his sorrows.
Yanyan, who had always kept to herself, continued living in seclusion. Wang Huai, who was always talking about “success and failure,” was forced to stop moving forward. Countless people took their place that year, chasing the futures they wanted. And countless others, like them, were battered by reality, dazed and struggling to smile.
Maybe by choice or by force, in the end, you become different from everyone else. Whether you move forward or stay where you are, you can choose, as long as you allow yourself to.
Unemployed woman in her twenties x career-struck man in his thirties
A short story written while slacking off. Hope you enjoy it (^+^)
Theme: A healing short story
