Skateboarding photography

There is a question that I believe everyone has thought about.

"What would you do now if you did it again?"

I have a high school classmate who was admitted to our class with the first place in the second year of high school. Since then, he has become the seed player that all teachers pay attention to. Finally, he became a science student in our school and went to the Chemistry Department of Tsinghua University.

In his sophomore year, he dropped out of school. Note that he dropped out of school, not suspended. In other words, he now only has a high school diploma to prove his diploma.

Later, I wanted to write a story about my friend, so I chatted with him for a while. After he went to college, he met a group of friends who liked skateboarding, and then he came into contact with photography. Over time, he found that he didn't want to spend four years doing chemical experiments, so he simply dropped out of school and devoted himself to skateboarding and photography.

Now, he and his friends are doing what they like in Shanghai, taking part in professional-looking activities such as video recording of skateboarding competitions of Vans and other brands. In short, I think he just stays in a different world from me.

"Will you regret dropping out of school?" I asked him this question.

I have forgotten the specific answer, but the general idea is that he likes what he is doing now.

Some people may ask, since I finally dropped out of school, why did I study hard to get so many points in the first place? The results are not all the same.

On the surface, his previous efforts didn't seem to have much impact on his present life, but we might as well assume that if he didn't study hard, enter key classes and prepare for the college entrance examination all night, he wouldn't go to Tsinghua to study, if he didn't go to Tsinghua, he might not meet his skateboarding friends, if he didn't touch skateboarding, he might not drop out of school, and he might study a major in an ordinary school and then spend four years in college.

He may never find that he likes skateboarding and photography.

It seems futile to study hard in the past, but it was those years that secretly prompted him to come to today.

I chatted with my boyfriend the other day and lamented that we met too late. He told me that if I scored a few more points and applied to the same university as me, I might know me earlier.

But if we really meet at that time, will we be together? At that time, he liked games more than girls, and felt that it was meaningless to fall in love. It is very likely that even if we meet early, we will miss it.

Then I thought about myself. In my senior year, I took part in the postgraduate entrance examination. I missed the Union Medical College because I was a few points behind the second place in the second interview. Later, I chose to adjust and met a male tutor with a bad style. I was reasonable, didn't go to school on the day of registration, and finally gave up graduate school.

After that, I tried to apply to several universities in Hong Kong and Macao, and considered choosing the International Master of Sino-Portuguese Cooperation in Southern Medical University. These plans finally ran aground because my parents were very uneasy about me going so far alone.

During that time, I felt that my life was terrible. A few months of struggle for postgraduate entrance examination instantly turned into a useless bubble. Since I didn't pass the exam in the end, I might as well have fun for half a year.

I sometimes blame myself for not getting a high score in the exam and reflect on whether my second interview is not good in English. In short, I am immersed in my own mistakes and feel that one step is wrong, and the rest of my life can only flow downwards.

But it was also during that time that I began to re-examine myself and plan my disrupted life. It was in that dark day that I found my own star-the field I wanted to engage in. Perhaps its light was very small, but I was finally no longer a person who went with the flow. Since then, I seem to have taken a reassurance. No matter how the external factors change, I just need to walk towards that star, far from being as confused as before.

At this moment, I met my boyfriend. At this time, we are two mature people. We can have a calm long-distance relationship, and we can also find each other's innocence from the details, so we get along very comfortably.

So are my parents. When my father graduated from college, he was assigned a job, which was originally a government department, but a female classmate in the same class wanted to assign it to her boyfriend, so she begged my father to change jobs with her. My father was very kind and agreed. Unfortunately, the company he later worked for was eventually eliminated by the times.

It seems to be a sad story, but it was at that time that he was introduced to my mother in that company and found the love of his life.

Sometimes we are always obsessed with the wrong choices we have made, and we are always unwilling to let ourselves go easily. But in fact, it's a blessing in disguise. In the long run, what seems unsatisfactory at present may not ruin our next life.

Some people say that the college entrance examination actually only determines which city we want to go to, who we meet and what kind of ourselves we become. No matter which city we go to, we may fall in love with it deeply. No matter who you meet, it is possible to make friends and become what you are. By default, we have made arrangements, no matter what the result is, it is actually the positive solution of life.

Looking back many years later, when I found that my life was still satisfactory, or unexpected surprises, I even began to thank those mistakes I made in the college entrance examination, and also thanked me for not playing my oral English well in the postgraduate entrance examination and re-examination. It is those mistakes in my life that have made me who I am today, made me re-examine myself, found the direction of the future, and gave me a quality lover.

I hope you learn to let go of yourself, don't blame yourself too much, and don't always fantasize about starting over. Cherish the present, the present is the right way, that is, life.

Many things seem wrong, but they may also be secretly destined for you.