[109] The greatest pain
Fifteen years, on the day of the incident, Dongzi was under sixteen years old, and the first fifteenth year of his life ended here.
Fifteen years, another fifteen years, is his future life, and he will spend these fifteen years in prison.
This case caused a sensation in the whole town. Some people directly raised Dongzi to the point of bullying his master and destroying his ancestors. Moreover, the person he killed was the school leader. He believed that it was not enough to quell the public's anger without sentenced Dongzi to death. Some people also believed that the sentencing this time was too severe. Dongzi was a minor, and he was under the age of sixteen. He should not accept such a heavy punishment. Fifteen years would be equivalent to destroying his entire youth.
I wanted to see Dongzi for the last time, but was locked up by Master Shi Yongyuan.
Before the sentence, the police came to me to ask about the specific situation before Dongzi committed the crime, and asked me if there was anything abnormal about Dongzi. I answered what I knew truthfully. But the neighbors didn't think so. They privately argued that I was Dongzi's accomplice. Because of this, Master Shi Yongyuan felt very embarrassed. He told me to me to meddle in other people's business and refused to let me visit Dongzi.
The only thing I could do was write a letter and ask Dongzi's cousin to hand it over to Dongzi.
Not long after, the school held an activity to learn the law, mainly to educate children to beat and kill people, which was wrong. It is said that the leaders of the Education Commission believed that our school’s legal awareness was too weak.
In this event, Dongzi became a negative example, and every teacher used him as an example to criticize him.
But in the minds of students, Dongzi is a hero, or even a great person who has changed his destiny.
Before this, the school had to attend evening self-study from the first to the third grade of junior high school. Because Gou Ride was assassinated, the school canceled the evening self-study. Until two months later, because the courses in the third grade of junior high school were too tight, the school stipulated that evening self-study would start in the third grade of junior high school, and that evening self-study would not be required for evening self-study in the first and second grade of junior high school. This led to many students in the first and second grade of junior high school praising Dongzi, who was in prison. It was this unforgivable murderer who saved them from the fate of being ravaged by exam-oriented education to some extent.
Dongzi didn't reply to me.
For us who were fifteen or sixteen at that time, fifteen years was our life and forever.
I gradually forgot him.
I thought I would never see him again.
It turned out that I was wrong. I met him fifteen years later.
Due to his good performance, Dongzi was released from prison a year early. It took him half a year to adapt to the world. When he entered, even his flip phone was a rare thing. Now even children use iPads. Some people predicted that people like Dongzi who are decisive in their killing will definitely be personal characters after they come out. This prophecy is quite foresighted.
Dongzi is doing furniture business now and is doing well.
According to the routine in the novel and movie, Dongzi should repent for the things that happened back then and regret the youth that passed away after coming out. It’s a pity that real life is not a novel and movie. Dongzi did not mention the things that happened back then, nor did he show any regrets about the things that happened back then. He said that the only thing he regretted was that he did not study hard.
Dongzi fell in love with a girl, but the girl didn't like him. The most nonsense was that the girl didn't mind Dongzi was in jail. What she minded was that Dongzi didn't even have a high school diploma. This made Dongzi feel infinitely sad, and he couldn't change this situation.
Dongzi's story made me understand a truth: human pain is often caused by others, but caused by oneself. This kind of pain is often caused by the inability to change the status quo.
There are too many such examples in life, such as me, my wish is like the song: I once dreamed of walking around the world with a sword and seeing the prosperity of the world. In my dreams, I often see myself as a graceful boy, coming with a sword and riding the wind. In fact, I am no longer a teenager, at most I will go out and go around the world. If I really have a sword, I will definitely not be able to pass the security check... I was unable to change this situation in the end.
For example, my friend Lao Wang, whom I met at the uncle, always admired Joey Wong. He dreamed of marrying Joey Wong, but the fact is that he had never seen Joey Wong with his own eyes. If he had billions of family assets, Joey Wong would have been rolling around in his bed. Unfortunately, he did not have billions of family assets, so he could not change the status quo.
Let me give you the most common example. In many sad or pretending to be sad, when the male protagonist graduated from college, his girlfriend would definitely run away with a man driving a Mercedes-Benz. I used to hate such a girlfriend, but later I wondered, what would the ending happen if the male protagonist owned a Mercedes-Benz? In fact, many endings have long been destined. The tragedy of the male protagonist in the book is just because he has never changed his current situation.
Looking back, being a loser is actually very happy. Just put the blame for failure on the rich and handsome man on the whole society, and you can also blame others with confidence.
When a person refuses to be a loser, he has to think rationally, and then suddenly realize that the reason why some things fail is not that others are not good enough, that this society is not good enough, but that we ourselves are not good enough.
Our greatest pain comes from anger at our own incompetence.
Chapter completed!