Vanity Fair and City II (21)

The next earthquake happened earlier than I thought. I think I am really a crow or a witch whose mouth could grumble some bad things and those bad things did really happen.

When the news that earthquake happened in Tangshan today sprang out from the screen, Ivy, one of my colleagues, said: “It seems that 2012 is not just a movie.”

And it is funnier to read such a post in one of Ivy’s friends. That post is self-mocking:

“2010, the widow year,
2011, the single year,
2012, the end of the world.”

So we sighed and asked: “What’s wrong with us?”

It is said that 2010 is the widow year, so nobody will get married this year. However, my former landlord will get married soon. After he gets a divorce with Amy, he will marry a young girl, a university student who left school last year.

It is rather common to hear this saying at campus these years: To find a rich husband is much better than to find a good job. This idea is always popular among students at campus, especially when they are sending resumes, getting ready for the interview and taking the first job in their life in the last year of their university life.

So it is not strange that young girl chooses to marry my former landlord after she left school. When we were still at campus, we might still hold a romantic dream, sticking to the “spiritual love” stubbornly rather than the “material love”. However, the real life in the cruel society will teach us to be more “practical”.

My former landlord is not really rich; however, he has some houses. That’s already enough. Houses can demonstrate everything. Those young, ambitious university students, like Dk Yang, who can buy their own houses in the near future?

Dk Yang has nothing. Yes, his father does get anywhere in my hometown, but that’s not his achievement. Now he works hard, like a mature man, no longer that imperious, skin-deep boy.

But I can’t help asking: If 2012 is not just a movie, what do you work so hard for?

These days we seem to be shrouded in the aura of the end of the world. Ivy always sighed: “Soon it will be the end of the world! So we had better live in luxury, enjoy ourselves, do everything we want to do and use up all of the money we earn…”

Well, yea, the Earth seems to be angry these days. But I guess I will be still living in 2013.