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Thirteen-year-old Chen Mo squatted under the parasol tree at the entrance of the alley, talking nonsense to his neighbor's second-hand Jetta: "In the future, when I make a lot of money, cars worth more than 200,000 yuan will be garbage, and I won't drive them for free!" The sun was hot at that time, and the youth's ambition was as big as the sky. He always felt that growing up meant reaching for the stars. Luxury cars and huge sums of money were all natural gifts. But the reality is a gentle slap in the face. Twenty-eight-year-old Chen Mo was squeezed into a bus that looked like a sardine can, struggling with rent, medical expenses and the layoff crisis. The car worth more than 200,000 yuan that he had devalued back then was now a luxury that he could not reach even on tiptoe. His bank card balance was not even enough for the down payment. A chance encounter while delivering food made him bump into the guy he used to brag about when he was young - the other person was driving the very car he looked down on back then, and his life became what he had longed for. In contrast, Chen Mo's embarrassment was nowhere to be seen, and those big words in his youth turned into a sourness that was unspeakable in adulthood. This is a story about "ambition and reality", and it is also the epitome of the growth of every ordinary person. We were all once complacent teenagers who thought the future would be prosperous, but when we grow up, we discover that the truth of life is to accept the ordinary and reconcile with ourselves. All the boasts and wishes we have made over the years may not come true, but after recognizing the truth of life and still choosing to move forward in a down-to-earth manner, we are also worthy of being treated gently by life.