During this time, another hot word with homophonic connotations "small earning youth" brushed the screen. The meaning of this word is that this group of young people who play small tricks and small things in life, focus on slowly making money and living their own small lives. Over the years, young people have had many words, such as "involution", "lying flat", "45 degrees of life", "70 points of life" and so on. Analyzing these hot words, in fact, is also in dialogue with reality, from "a small goal of <> million" to "small earning youth", hot words are constantly changing, reflecting the tolerance of the current society, the diversity of social values, and the diversity of life pursuits.
On this year's May Fourth Youth Day, "Small Earning Youth" stood out from a group of programs that paid tribute to youth. The video of "Small Earning Youth" for more than 2 minutes enters the daily life of young people such as express brothers, group actors, voice actors, and small stall owners, showing them slowing down themselves, moving forward in small steps, going further, and harvesting more stories, bringing the audience the life concept of "life does not have to be rich and noble, small income is also good".
The reason why this video resonated widely with netizens is because these young people are in your daily life. On weekends, many commercial areas will launch small night market stalls, hand-knitting shops, handmade earring shops, freshly blended fragrance stalls, etc., all of which are run by young people; In many traditional industries, young people who have become managers are also actively innovating, from packaging to content, such as pancake fruit is becoming more and more fancy, bouquet packaging in flower shops is more fashionable and portable, "frog selling cubs" videos are popular on the Internet, and so on.
In today's highly competitive environment, young people are the visual center of society, and their attitudes towards the workplace and life are often defined. From the deafening of "setting a small goal for yourself and earning 45 million first", to the intensity of "rolling up life and death", and then to the short-term "lying flat", and then there are such as "70 degrees of life" and "<> points of life" such as not lying down or rolling up, and "<> points of life", plus "small earning youth", behind this series of changes, affected by the surrounding environment, there is a change in life concept, which is also related to the individual's experience of reality, which is a positive self-adjustment attitude to life.
Some netizens sighed that they had swayed between rolling and lying down, crawling and rolling in the past few years, feeling the exhaustion of being hollowed out, but still full of hope for life, so they chose to take a step back, look away and step into "small earnings", reduce panic and anxiety, and find that the slow accumulation is more suitable for themselves, and live every day steadily. Some netizens also said that they used to do everything 70% hard, once they couldn't ask for it, the whole person was very frustrated and failed, and now only 30% of the force, get a better result is very satisfied, and the remaining <>% can also pursue more choices.
This seems to be a contradiction between "doing everything to resign oneself" and "small wealth is security" and "contentment and happiness", in fact, from another point of view, life has many options, there are many achievable values, and there can be many goals, from "a small goal of 100 million" to "small earning youth", are a choice, choose what suits you, is the most important. Relatively speaking, "small earnings" have a sense of reality, are more practical, and more pragmatic, and are consistent with the down-to-earth approach of "setting a small goal".
In addition, in the current context, "contentment and happiness" is not actually satisfied with the status quo, not seeking progress, holding back, blindly lying flat, but a moderate attitude to life, is a blind luxury that does not exceed one's own ability in material enjoyment, does not do unnecessary forms and calculations, but also a kind of self-assessment, self-design and self-adjustment, and catches up after accumulating strength.
Of course, some people say that "small earnings" may not be really small, the point is that young people have individual independent choices and control their own rhythm. Start with short-term and clear small goals, choose to take a path that suits you, and then calmly create your own rhythm.
The "small-earning youth" actually show a relaxed and measured lifestyle, ordinary, sober and optimistic, adhering to a serious attitude of life, and insisting on down-to-earth work. It is not good to be ambitious, nor arrogant, not to be presumptuous, not only to strive and continue to climb the peak, but also to enjoy the whole process at your own pace. Not everyone has to become a "small-earning youth". In the final analysis, the change of hot words reflects the change of life philosophy and values, and what suits you is the best.
Yangtze Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Kong Xiaoping