It's considered okay if today is not worse than yesterday

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Friend A, ten years ago when I met her, she is a pretty girl with long eyelashes and big eyes. She owns a shop that sells socks and has a dream that one day she will have her own franchises all over the town. Everyone is wearing her socks walking on the street.

She likes socks; she sells different types of socks; Ankle length socks, knee-length socks, calf-length socks, mid-calf length socks, crew length socks, cheap, expensive, personalized, lovely socks can be found in her shop.

At that moment, her shop was able to survive, although the income is not high, barely surviving.

"If you like socks so much then you should open a sock factory in the future." I said to her.

"Well, I will consider it. Give me ten years, let me save enough money." She said with her big eye.

Ten years later, she still selling socks, didn’t open socks factory, also did not have any franchise, except the physical store and opened an online store.

The socks she sells are still complete, and because of her online store, she is busier than before.

Her income is a little more than before, but in the past ten years, prices have soared, and living standards are soaring, so her life is still in a state of starvation.

At this time she is already a child mother, her daughter has a long eyelash just like her mom.

"Do you still want to open a sock factory?" I asked her.

"Of course, I want to open a child socks factory, so that my cute daughter will have cute socks to wear." However, give me ten years, let me save money. ”

She smiled and said: "Just like what I said ten years ago. The factory dream is too far away, I think, maybe at the age of 40, I still selling socks. ”

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B is also a friend that I have known for more than ten years.

ten years ago, she was an accountant in a factory, a beautiful young girl.

After work, she likes to read various geographical books, like to collect postcards from around the world; her biggest dream is to travel around the world.

But she was an office worker, not too busy, not too free, usually not too tired, but don’t have too much time to go out to play; Her income is not less, but also not too high, don’t have a lot of money to travel around the world.

Later, after the factory closed, she had to find other ways to survive, and finally got a job in an accounting firm.

In the new environment, the competition pressure is very big; the work intensity is also big, she grits her teeth and finally overcomes it. Her workability improved, has a little fame in the industry, from the original firm and opened a small accounting firm.

Independent work is more tired than before, the firm performance ups and downs, she dares not sigh.

During this period she also completed a few life events, got married, and gave birth to two children.

ten years later, she has more income than before, has her own small business, but did not reach those billionaire level.

Someone asked her if she still wanted to travel around the world, and she said, "Yes, but the firm is too busy and have no time to go out."

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Look at friends around; many are similar to A and B.

Over the past ten years, although everyone has experienced different, all are busy, floating and sinking, tasted small happiness, suffered small pain, those that become really rich is really less.

Compared to ten years ago, everyone's material conditions are much better, the standard of living has improved, but most people have not become rich. Is the dream from the past still there? Yes, of course. But it doesn't seem to make much of a connection.

Like A, she is satisfied with her current state of life, like socks and has been selling socks, the physical shop not doing well so opened an online shop, although it didn’t do that well, but still able to survive. With the sock shop, she not only can support herself but also able to support her children.

She said: "It is considered okay if today is not worse than yesterday.”

Such words, from her mouth, have no negative emotion but can feel her long ordinary years of a wear-resistant positive.

B is also quite adapted to the present life, with two children, she more and more enjoys staying at home.

She said that sometimes when the elder child is sitting at the table to doing homework, and the second child lying in bed playing with toys, she sat beside, accompanied by her two kids, look at the world from the television, feels quite satisfied.

"These years, although have not much success, but has been down-to-earth moving forward, kill a way out in the life of mutation, in the cause of the trough to find a turnaround, I think, still quite impressed with myself."

Travel around the world's dream is still there, but there are some difficulties to achieve it, but she able to travel to two countries, but come and go in a hurry, because in mind, keep thinking about work, thinking about the children, and miss her family.

B says, "Now I think there is no meaning to travels around the world alone." Wait for my two kids grow up, I plan to bring my family to travel abroad, not go too far, stroll around in the neighboring countries, bring children together to see the world. ”

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I think A and B has a good mentality. If it was ten years ago, we feel that the things we wanted to do but weren't able to do it, is a big deal, but ten years later, life teaches us to learn to let go.

In fact, everyone's dream has not completely run far, it is just a little change in time, we no longer compete with life, but learn and to fulfill each other.

Most of the time, life is not an inspirational drama, each experience a loss, eventually can achieve the dream, life is not a success, we experience transforms, then to success, to a happy ending.

Life as long as continue, there is no so-called reunion, it has not let the princess dream for life, also did not fulfill all the Cinderella, it is just an invisible hand pushing each of us to step forward, bit by bit enjoy the process of walking forward.

Our ordinary life is not like this; the sky will not suddenly drop a big pie if you do not rely on your own hands to fight, you might not be even able to eat the pie.

We do not seek to get rich overnight, do not seek to achieve dream in one day, only look forward hope that tomorrow will be better than today.
Or it is not worse than yesterday is considered good enough.

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