I hope you are a koi, not a crucian carp.

The carriages are very slow.

The letter is very long.

You can only be a down-to-earth person in your life.

Now,

The network is fast,

The economy is developed,

However,

I don't want to be a human being.

Just want to be a fish.

Many people who don’t know the truth will ask what the recent turmoil is and why all kinds of lucky jewels have arrived.

In the past, if you did your job well and worked hard, there would be hope, but now you can get something for nothing.

What kind of magical fish has such great power?

For young people, these two words can often be seen on social media. Here, "koi" is not just a kind of fish, but also a symbol of luck - it can be koi, or it can be Wang Sicong, Yang Chaoyue, Wei Yingluo, or the recent "Xin Xiaodai".

On the 12th, the topic #Koi carp are being raised all over the country# topped the hot search list.

This wave of "koi" craze originated from a lucky draw activity held by Alipay. At 14:00 on September 29, Alipay sent a microblog titled "Wish you become a Chinese koi" through its official Weibo account. The rules of the activity are very simple. As long as you forward this microblog, you will have the chance to become a "Chinese koi" and win the grand prize.

Suddenly, an autumn wind came one night, and thousands of people believed Xiaodai.

The lucky netizen "Xin Xiaodai" was hit by this gift worth 500,000 yuan from Alipay. With three million reposts, this is simply an epic Chinese koi.

From small items like snacks, stationery and pillows to large items like world travel tickets, hotels and cruises, as well as cosmetics, clothes and bags from major brands, Alipay basically takes into account everything from eating, drinking, playing, and being beautiful.

Even the winner of the Koi Grand Prize, "Xin Xiaodai", found it a little unbelievable:

“Do I not have to work for the rest of my life???”

All of a sudden, all kinds of people started to go to her Weibo to get some good luck. Many people unilaterally stated that they were Xin Xiaodai's brothers and sisters, and some even directly asked her to recognize them as their father and mother and become sworn brothers.

In just one day, Xin Xiaodai's Weibo followers increased from 200 to the current 700,000. Even the celebrity Li Xian reposted Xin Xiaodai's koi message to pray for good luck.

For a time, the entire Internet was in an uproar. Compared to the rich getting richer, people still prefer to see ordinary people suddenly make a comeback.

Because most of us are ordinary people.

Some people say that when you reach a certain stage in life, you have no other thoughts but to become rich overnight.

Maybe life is really too hard and people need good luck so much that they keep reposting koi fish on WeChat Moments and Weibo.

Facing the current koi spectacle, one cannot help but sigh: In life, we often have immense longing and envy for these one in a million or ten million lucky ones, as if life owes everyone an overnight fortune, and our daily efforts seem insignificant and very boring in front of it.

But compared to not knowing when the big pie will come to you, focusing on the present is an opportunity that most people can take the initiative to seize. If you can do these three small things, you will be the lucky koi that brings you luck.

It only takes 21 days to develop a habit, and 90 days to change a habit and develop a new one. It takes time to develop a habit, and it takes time to correct a bad habit. It can be seen that it is easy to develop a habit, as long as you persist, and persistence is also easy, as long as you develop a habit.

According to experts’ research, repetition for more than 21 days will form a habit, and repetition for 85 days will form a stable habit. So if a concept is verified by others or yourself for more than 21 times, it will definitely become your belief.

Why are there only 3% successful people in this world, while 97% are mediocre?

Once, American scientists conducted a survey on a group of one-year-old children and found that each child's creativity and imagination reached 90%, indicating that each child was a genius and the differences in intelligence were very small. However, what was the result? What about ten years later, twenty years later, thirty years later?

In fact, many people just can't get over that hurdle. They spend more than 90% of their efforts, but at the critical moment, they can't stand it and give up or die. Success is often in that moment, that instant, that thought. A journey of 100 miles begins with a single step. A journey of 100 miles is only halfway when 90 miles have been walked. This means that the harder it is to go, the more you have to persist.

Growth will always encounter bottlenecks, and each time you cross a bottleneck, it is an extremely painful experience. All you can do is to persist and believe that "God rewards hard work". You persisted while others could not, and this is your capital.

Today is cruel, tomorrow is even crueler, and the day after tomorrow will be beautiful, but most people will die tomorrow night and will not see the sun the day after tomorrow.

When you encounter a little pressure, you make yourself look overwhelmed; when you encounter a little uncertainty, you describe the future as bleak; when you encounter a little unhappiness, you make it seem like the darkest moment of your life. These are probably just the poorest excuses for giving up because you don't want to work hard.

Tim Cook, the leader of Apple, insisted on getting up at 3:45 a.m. every day after taking over Apple. Don't doubt it, it's every day, because his work email records the most real time.

After waking up, he would first deal with work emails for an hour, so that he could leave behind the lazy people on the East Coast who were three time zones ahead of him. Then, Cook would go to the gym to recharge, then go to Starbucks to deal with more emails before going to work.

As an ordinary office worker, I find that if I wake up half an hour earlier, I will have enough time to match the right clothes, put on makeup, and have a leisurely breakfast. And I will spend the day with extra confidence and ease.

"Waking up early" is just a small thing to stick to, but it is not easy to stick to it.

When you really do it, you will find that all the hardships you have experienced along the way are tinged with a hint of sweetness.

Dream is a very cliché word, but it truly supports us to move forward. On the other hand, people who give up halfway often talk about dreams, but in their hearts they have already chosen a seemingly flat but extremely crowded road, heading towards mediocrity.

Life always needs accumulation bit by bit. Rome was not built in one day, and no one can reach the sky in one step. The process of persistence is bitter and tiring, but every drop of sweat shed will eventually bear crystal fruit.

Now that you have chosen the path, just keep going.

Some people say that there are two kinds of people in adulthood, mature and old.

And most people have become the latter.

I used to think that people should enjoy themselves and live in the present moment, but laziness became a habit and lack of self-discipline became the norm in life.

Wang Xiaobo once said: All pain is essentially anger at one's own incompetence. Self-discipline is precisely the fundamental way to solve the pain in life.

I once read an interview with Haruki Murakami, in which he said that for him, there were only 23 hours in a day, and he devoted one hour to running without fail.

Haruki Murakami calls himself a long-distance runner, and his way of thinking is: "I don't feel like running today, so I'm going to run."

When writing a novel, he usually wakes up around four in the morning, never uses an alarm clock, makes coffee, eats snacks, and never procrastinates, always getting down to work right away.

Only by cultivating yourself into a creature of habit can you constantly step out of your comfort zone and become better than your past self.

Philosopher Kant said: "True freedom is not doing whatever you want, but self-control. Self-discipline is freedom."

It may not be obvious in one or two days, and maybe not in one or two months, but in one or two years, or even ten or twenty years, self-disciplined people and undisciplined people will eventually take completely different paths.

The effort and reward are directly proportional, and only when the quantitative change is sufficient can qualitative change be achieved.

There are no shortcuts in life, but every step you take counts.

The more diligent you are, the harder you work; the more self-disciplined you are, the better you will be.

A self-disciplined person seems to have escaped from the original rules of the game and become the maker of his own life rules. He clearly knows his imperfections, but will work hard to change them.

What should be done and when, and what responsibilities should be taken at what stage.

They will not spend a lot of time complaining, being jealous, or blaming others. Instead, they will reconcile with themselves, face reality, and shoulder the responsibilities they should bear.

No one wants to be drowned in the vast crowd, and everyone still feels that their life may be a little different and wants to have their own lifestyle.

If you are unwilling to be mediocre and do not want to live a life of mediocrity, then please become a self-disciplined person.

Face your shortcomings, refuse excuses, take responsibility for yourself, and you will find that life will no longer restrict you and you can freely enjoy the life you want.

Many people will have this thought: Oh, I really want to find a place where no one is and have a good cry.

A former colleague came to chat with me a few days ago and said that the most relaxing moment of the day was to drive the car to the door of his house, sit in the car, play a song, smoke a cigarette, and think about nothing for ten minutes.

Think about it, you work so hard to support your family, but you still have to suffer the blows of life, and you always have something on your mind from time to time. What could be more heartbreaking than this?

But life is trying to trip you up at all times. If you can overcome them, you will feel enlightened. If you can't, you will live under the shadow of setbacks.

There was a man who had suffered many setbacks, but he never gave up and always pursued his ideals tirelessly - he was the 16th President of the United States, Lincoln.

Lincoln suffered setbacks in business at the age of 31, failed in his election for Congress at the age of 32, the business he founded at the age of 34 went bankrupt, he suffered from neurasthenia at the age of 36, and then he lost many elections in succession... Until he was 60 years old, he still persisted in participating in the US presidential election and finally won in one fell swoop.

What made Lincoln successful? It was his tenacity to fight again and again despite failures, never being defeated by the difficulties in front of him, and his firm belief.

People have to keep looking forward to move forward.

Life throws you a curveball, I hope you can handle it with ease.

I really appreciate the poem by the British poet Rand translated by Mr. Qian Zhongshu's wife, Ms. Yang Jiang. Reading it now, I believe most of us will benefit from it.

I don't fight with anyone, and I don't care about fighting with anyone;

I love nature, and secondly, art;

I toasted my hands,

The fire of life warms us;

The fire waned.

I'm ready to go too.

In this complex society, we can read Mr. Yang's detached calmness and composure. As ordinary people, we should not trip ourselves up, nor be tripped by the tripping things of life.

If you can do the above three things, you really don’t have to envy the good luck of Alipay Koi. After all, each of us is actually an ordinary individual, and the only thing we can do is to work hard to make ourselves a better person.

Luck is always one in a million, and the pie that falls from the sky can't ensure you have enough food and drink for the rest of your life. Most people still have to return to their lives and struggle silently.

In reality, you and I may be born ordinary and end up ordinary, but ordinary does not mean mediocre.

I hope you can become a koi, not a crucian carp.