Vanity Fair and City II (32)

Show yourself --- Every part of the world, every corner of the city, even every site of the internet, everybody --- from celebrities to men in the streets --- shows themselves, by all kinds of ways: from the individual privacies, to the naked photos; from the real heroic deeds, to the purely publicizing and propagandizing activities …Just to let others know.

Anyway, it is very easy to become famous these days as long as you are open and brave enough, especially in a time that is dominated by agitated emotions, supreme reputations, money worship, and envy & vanity.

As more and more people are single these days --- It is rather weird that the 3S ladies and the golden bachelors can’t find each other even though there are many 3S ladies and golden bachelors here --- a popular marriage-seeking program occur: As long as you can pay, you call for the TV station, make a video, and put it in the subway during rush hours.

So, every moring, people rush to the subway, still sleepy and dreaming. And suddenly, a video shows in the screen, with golden bachelors or 3S ladies introducing themselves, telling their stories and emotions, showing their private life, and seeking for their true love…

I giggled when I first watched such kind of programs. Yes, I understand their predicament. Those golden bachelors devote their youth to their business and their career, as a result, they find that they have missed the chances to find the true hearts. So they show themselves on this program, to seek for the so-called soulmate. However, they know clearly that those who call for them after watching the marriage-seeking program are mostly for their money. The same as the 3S ladies.

Of course there must be some true hearts who are for their inner things, not the outside things. However, those golden bachelors or 3S ladies may lose the chances to find those true hearts as most of their eyes are covered by two leaves: the leaf of pride and the leaf of prejudice. As a result, they can not see the whole mountain.

Anyway, this is a way to fulfill the dream. To have hope is always better than to lose heart.

And that day, Peter --- He was still here at that time --- brought a piece of news to us: PP was on the marriage-seeking program showing on the subway! A bomb in our office, we discussed like a flock of hens, or cows.

So we all knew that PP was very worried about her single life. So we all knew that PP was very eager to rush into the heaven of marriage. So we all pitied for her --- Some of us even worried that PP’s today would be our tomorrow too.

Of course PP knew that Peter spread this news later. She got extremely angry. She and Peter were fire and water, two tigers in one mountain, unable to get along well… But Peter is just a talktive parrot, while PP is a cunning fox. Foxes always win becase they are more cunning. That’s not strange why Peter failed in this battle --- he ended his career by quitting the job.

So PP becomes the most talktive one after Peter left. Every day she asks us our standard to choose a husband. Ivy said: “He must be mature, not shallow, but I don’t care his marital status.”

Of course she doesn’t care about the marital status, because she is in a relationship with a married man.

“Any you?” PP stared at me.

I thought for a while, but couldn’t sum up my standard. It could be anyone who comes out at any time. When it is the real feeling, the outside things are nothing compared to the inner things. But I hope that he does not spoil his health by over drinking, over smoking, over working or taking drugs, as I don’t want him die before me.




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