just read "A Match Made in Heaven"...fuck bro, something about it really just spoke to me. honestly i think if you read "Daoist Gu Master" and don't have some sort of worldview change, you weren't reading close enough.
feels like RI came into my life at a perfect time. ive been having some serious cognitive dissonance because even though i went to school for business i fucking hate it and i hate the corporate rat race and i want to be a teacher like onizuka. so the whole part of this chapter with the "so what?" phrasing brought a tear to my eye ngl. even if i dont make much money, so what? even if its frowned upon by my family, so what? that is what i want to do and that is how i can find meaning in my life
at risk of sounding like a im 14 and this is deep larper, i would say despite the many michael jordan posters and fake ass hollow "follow your dreams" speeches at college graduations, this simple idea of doing what you want is actually heavily frowned on as soon as it stops being lucrative or beneficial to the system. or at least its overshadowed by messages of pragmatism and "be realistic", which makes sense because otherwise our society would be absolute pandemonium, but still, I appreciate this wonderful chinese web novel for the life lessons it has given me. and i hope it gets unbanned before i catch up.
thank you for reading this junior brother's post 🙏